My Dear Old Southern Home finds Doc Watson in his early seventies, still singing with warmth and technical precision on a program of traditional songs, old-time pieces, and sentimental parlor material. Released in 1993 on Sugar Hill, the album includes "Your Lone Journey," a duet written for Doc and his late wife Rosa Lee that became one of the most emotionally resonant recordings of his later career. Watson had always been as much a song preserver as a guitar virtuoso, and this record reflects that identity fully — the flat-picking is assured but never showy, subordinated to the storytelling. "Grandfather's Clock" and the title track root the collection in the nineteenth-century vernacular tradition Watson spent his life transmitting. The album is a quietly moving document of a master musician at peace with his repertoire and his craft.
Tracklist
- 1 My Dear Old Southern Home 2:24
- 2 Grandfather’s Clock 3:23
- 3 Your Lone Journey 2:48