Riding That Midnight Train, Doc Watson's 1986 Sugarhills release, captures the North Carolina guitarist and vocalist in a session that draws on both the folk tradition and the country gospel material central to his cultural background. Greenville Trestle High and Sweet Heaven When I Die, the tracked selections, illustrate the range Watson was comfortable inhabiting: the secular and the sacred were continuous in his repertoire, as they had been in the mountain communities where he learned to play. Watson's flatpicking remained authoritative in this period, his right hand unhurried and completely fluent, and his voice carried the plainspoken delivery that distinguished him from more stylized interpreters. The album is a reliable document of an artist who had long since found his voice and never saw cause to abandon it.
Tracklist
- 1 The Old Home alt version 2:14
- 2 Greenville Trestle High Source Recording 3:29
- 3 Highway of Sorrow alt version 2:51
- 4 Fill My Way With Love 2:33
- 5 We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart alt version 3:11
- 6 Riding the Midnight Train alt version 2:07
- 7 Stone's Rag 2:41
- 8 Ramshackle Shack 3:22
- 9 Midnight on the Stormy Deep alt version 4:04
- 10 Baby Blue Eyes alt version 3:42
- 11 What Does the Deep Sea Say alt version 3:33
- 12 Let The Church Roll On 2:58
- 13 Sweet Heaven When I Die Source Recording 2:09
