My Dear Old Southern Home was released by Sugar Hill Records in 1991, on CD (SH-CD-3795) and cassette (SH-C-3795). Doc Watson sings on all thirteen tracks and plays guitar, harmonica and autoharp. The album was produced by T. Michael Coleman, who also plays electric bass, and Bil VornDick engineered and remixed it.
The band credited across the album is Jack Lawrence on guitar, Sam Bush on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle and mandolin, and acoustic bass by Roy Huskey Jr. or Mark Schatz, with Alan O’Bryant singing harmony. The program runs from the title song and “The Ship That Never Returned” through “Your Lone Journey,” “No Telephone in Heaven,” “Dream of the Miner’s Child,” “Grandfather’s Clock” and “Sleep Baby Sleep” to “Signal Light,” “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” and “Life Is Like a River.”
Tracklist
- 1 Muskrat alt version 2:52
- 2 Country Blues 3:31
- 3 My Dear Old Southern Home Source Recording 2:24
- 4 Rising Sun Blues 4:18
- 5 Tennessee Stud - Vanguard Version 3:39
- 6 Down to the River to Pray alt version 2:55
- 7 Dill Pickle Rag 1:25
- 8 Otto Wood The Bandit 3:17
- 9 Windy And Warm 2:15
- 10 Little Sadie alt version 2:46
- 11 Blue Railroad Train - Vanguard Version 2:45
- 12 Omie Wise alt version 4:28
- 13 Intoxicated Rat 2:32
- 14 Tom Dooley alt version 3:15
- 15 Alberta alt version 2:43
- 16 Beaumont Rag alt version 3:16
- 17 Shady Grove alt version 2:59
- 18 My Rough And Rowdy Ways 2:32
- 19 The Train That Carried My Girl From Town - Vanguard Version 3:48
- 20 Grandfather's Clock - Sugar Hill Version 1:47
- 21 Grandfather’s Clock Source Recording 3:23
- 22 The Cyclone Of Ryecov 3:13
- 23 Doc's Guitar 1:27
- 24 Crawdad Hole 3:52
- 25 Your Lone Journey Source Recording 2:48
- 26 Dream of the Miner’s Child alt version
