Old Timey Concert, the 1991 Doc Watson live release, documents one of the genre's essential performers in his natural habitat. Watson had built his reputation across three decades of festival and concert performances, and his command of the live setting was inseparable from his musical identity. His repertoire at this point spanned traditional Appalachian ballads, flatpicking instrumentals, blues-influenced country, and gospel, often in a single set, and his capacity to hold an audience through tonal variety and plain-spoken stage presence was as much a part of his art as the guitar work. Old Timey Concert captures the informal authority that made Watson one of the most trusted figures in acoustic music for listeners who encountered the tradition through the folk revival.
Tracklist
- 1 Introduction 0:59
- 2 New River Train alt version 3:01
- 3 What Does the Deep Sea Say alt version 3:31
- 4 Sunny Tennessee 3:43
- 5 Walking in Jerusalem Just Like John alt version 1:58
- 6 Sitting on Top of the World alt version 2:39
- 7 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss alt version 2
- 8 My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains alt version 3:21
- 9 Slewfoot alt version 2:36
- 10 Little Orphan Girl alt version 3:14
- 11 Long Journey Home alt version 3:04
- 12 Rank Stranger alt version 2:56
- 13 Crawdad Song alt version 2:31
- 14 Fire on the Mountain alt version 2:03
- 15 Eastbound Train 3:34
- 16 On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee 3:31
- 17 Mountain Dew alt version 3:59
- 18 Corrina Corrina 2:31
- 19 Footprints in the Snow alt version 2:39
- 20 I Saw A Man At The Close Of The Day 3:11
- 21 Cackling Hen 1:41
- 22 Wanted Man 2:17
- 23 Way Downtown alt version 2:43
- 24 Will the Circle be Unbroken alt version 4:13
