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Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!

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Released
  
1968

Producer
  
Jack Lothrop

Release date
  
1968

Place recorded
  
Nashville

Length
  
38:06

Artist
  
Doc Watson

Label
  
Vanguard Records

Genres
  
Folk music, Country blues

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Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal! is the title of a recording by American folk music artist Doc Watson, released in 1968.

Contents

With the folk music boom on the wane, Watson traveled to Nashville. The result is a more polished sound with members of The Nashville A-Team backing him up.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "The playing is more impressive than the arrangements, which have that trademark Nashville smoothness..."

Track listing

  1. "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:12
  2. "Streamline Cannonball" (Roy Acuff) – 2:28
  3. "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:59
  4. "June Apple" (Traditional) – 2:12
  5. "I'm Thinking of My Blue Eyes" (A. P. Carter) – 3:28
  6. "Memphis Blues" (W. C. Handy, George Norton) – 2:45
  7. "The Train That Carried My Girl from Town" (Traditional) – 3:47
  8. "Old Camp Meeting Time" (Traditional) – 2:50
  9. "Bye Bye Blues" (Dave Bennett, Chauncy Gray, Fred Hamm, Bert Lown) – 2:44
  10. "Shady Grove" (Traditional) – 2:59
  11. "Blackberry Rag" (Watson) – 2:40
  12. "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band" (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree) – 3:24
  13. "Rainbow" (Traditional) – 2:34
  14. "Step It Up and Go" (Blind Boy Fuller) – 1:55

Personnel

  • Doc Watson – 6 & 12 string guitars, banjo, vocals
  • Merle Watson – guitar
  • Junior Huskey – bass
  • Floyd Cramer – piano
  • Buddy Harman – drums
  • Shot Jackson – dobro
  • Grady Martin – guitar, Spanish dobro
  • Buddy Spicher – fiddle
  • Tommy Jackson - fiddle
  • Don Stover – banjo
  • Production notes

  • Jack Lothrop – producer
  • Jules Halfant – art direction
  • Joel Brodsky – photography
  • Songs

    1Alabama Jubilee2:12
    2Streamline Cannonball2:28
    3Peach Picking Time In Georgia2:59

    References

    Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal! Wikipedia


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