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All Music Guide - Bruce Eder
The early and mid-1960s were good for Doc Watson in folk circles, but by the end of the decade, the folk boom was fading, and he gravitated back toward country audiences even Joan Baez was cutting records in Nashville. This pleasant but unexceptional album was one result. Watson does genially sung, beautifully played covers of songs by Roy Acuff "Streamline Cannonball", Jimmie Rodgers "Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia", A.P. Carter "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes", and even Blind Boy Fuller "Step It Up and Go", scattered among a handful of original and traditional numbers. The playing is more impressive than the arrangements, which have that trademark Nashville ...
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All Music Guide - Bruce Eder
The early and mid-1960s were good for Doc Watson in folk circles, but by the end of the decade, the folk boom was fading, and he gravitated back toward country audiences even Joan Baez was cutting records in Nashville. This pleasant but unexceptional album was one result. Watson does genially sung, beautifully played covers of songs by Roy Acuff "Streamline Cannonball", Jimmie Rodgers "Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia", A.P. Carter "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes", and even Blind Boy Fuller "Step It Up and Go", scattered among a handful of original and traditional numbers. The playing is more impressive than the arrangements, which have that trademark Nashville smoothness, bolstered by Merle Watson and Grady Martin on guitars, Tommy Jackson and Buddy Spicher on fiddles they get a workout on "June Apple", Floyd Cramer at the piano, and Buddy Harman on the drums.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 9/24/1996
  • Label: Vanguard Records
  • UPC: 015707927628
  • Catalog Number: 79276
  • Sales rank: 82,527

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Doc Watson Primary Artist, Primary Artist, Banjo, Guitar, Vocals
Floyd Cramer Piano
Buddy Spicher Fiddle
Don Stover Banjo
Grady Martin Guitar, Spanish Dobro
Shot Jackson Dobro
Buddy Harman Drums
Merle Watson Guitar
Victor Battista Bass
Technical Credits
Doc Watson Adaptation
W.C. Handy Composer
Cliff Carlisle Composer
David Bennett Composer
Mel Foree Composer
Jack Lothrop Producer
Chauncey Gray Composer
Bert Lown Composer
Jules Halfant Art Direction
George Norton Composer
Traditional Composer
Frederick Hamm Composer
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