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 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
