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Red Rocking Chair

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Released
  
1981

Producer
  
Mitch Greenhill

Release date
  
1981

Genres
  
Folk music, Blues

Length
  
28:46

Artists
  
Doc Watson, Merle Watson

Label
  
Flying Fish Records

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Recorded
  
Dec 1980-Jan 1981, Crimson Sound, Santa Monica, CA

Red Rocking Chair (1981)
  
Doc and Merle Watson's Guitar Album (1983)

Similar
  
Merle Watson albums, Folk music albums

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Red Rocking Chair is an album by Doc and Merle Watson, released in 1981 on the Flying Fish label.

Contents

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Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steve Leggett wrote of the album "Watson brings his own considerable guitar and banjo skills to bear on this selection of folk and blues tunes. Doc's voice is as easy and as comfortable as an old fishing hat ... further proof of how Watson makes everything he touches fit into his personal and seamless tour of American folk music."

Track listing

  1. "Sadie" (T. Michael Coleman, Bob Hilliard) – 2:23
  2. "Fisher's Hornpipe/Devil's Dream" (Traditional) – 1:38
  3. "Along the Road" (Dan Fogelberg) – 2:42
  4. "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams) – 2:39
  5. "Below Freezing" (Coleman) – 2:12
  6. "California Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:13
  7. "John Hurt" (Tom Paxton, Doc Watson) – 2:22
  8. "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 2:22
  9. "Any Old Time" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:21
  10. "Red Rocking Chair" (Traditional, Watson) – 1:57
  11. "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 2:42
  12. "Down Yonder" (Traditional) – 2:15

Personnel

  • Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Merle Watson – guitar, dobro, banjo
  • T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
  • Herb Pedersen – harmony vocals
  • Ron Tutt – drums
  • Gene Estes – percussion
  • Hank "Bones" Kahn – bones
  • Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
  • Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
  • Byron Berline – fiddle
  • Tom Scott – clarinet

    • Production notes

  • Mitch Greenhill – producer
  • Hank Cicalo – engineer
  • Milt Calise – assistant engineer
  • Jon Hartley Fox – liner notes

    • Songs

    1Sadie2:29
    2Fisher's Hornpipe / Devil's Dream1:45
    3Along The Road2:52

    References

    Red Rocking Chair Wikipedia
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