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Down South (Doc Watson album)

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Released
  
1984

Release date
  
1984

Label
  
Rykodisc

Length
  
31:53

Producer
  
Merle Watson

Genres
  
Folk music, Country blues

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Recorded
  
North Star Production, Todd, North Carolina

Down South (1984)
  
Pickin' the Blues (1985)

Artists
  
Doc Watson, Merle Watson, Doc & Merle Watson

Similar
  
On Praying Ground, Doc Watson in Nashville, Doc and Merle Watson's, My Dear Old Southern, Round the Table Again

Down South is the title of a recording by American folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1984.

Contents

It has been reissued on CD by Rykodisc and Sugar Hill.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Solid Gone" – 3:02
  2. "Bright Sunny South" – 2:36
  3. "Slidin' Delta" (Mississippi John Hurt) – 2:03
  4. "Coal Miner's Blues" (Carter) – 2:30
  5. "Hesitation Blues" – 2:46
  6. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (Charles C. Converse, Joseph M. Scriven) – 3:35
  7. "Fifteen Cents" – 2:28
  8. "Twin Sisters" – 1:39
  9. "The Hobo" – 4:18
  10. "Cotton-Eyed Joe" – 1:48
  11. "Hello Stranger" (Carter) – 2:17
  12. "Down South" – 2:35

Personnel

  • Doc Watson – guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Merle Watson – guitar, banjo, slide guitar
  • T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
  • Buddy Davis – bass
  • Sam Bush – fiddle

    • Production notes

  • Produced by Merle Watson
  • Engineered and mixed by Carl Rudisill

    • Songs

    1Solid Gone3:03
    2Bright Sunny South2:37
    3Slidin' Delta2:03

    References

    Down South (Doc Watson album) Wikipedia
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