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Riding the Midnight Train

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Released
  
1986

Producer
  
Barry Poss

Artists
  
Doc Watson, Merle Watson

Label
  
Sugar Hill Records

Length
  
39:07

Riding the Midnight Train (1986)
  
Portrait (1987)

Release date
  
1986

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Recorded
  
Studio 19, Nashville, TN

Genres
  
Bluegrass, Folk music, Country blues

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album

Similar
  
Doc Watson albums, Folk music albums

Riding the Midnight Train is the title of a recording by American folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1986. It is the last album Merle Watson recorded before he was killed in a tractor accident.

Contents

At the Grammy Awards of 1987, Riding the Midnight Train won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Guests include Béla Fleck, Sam Bush and Mark O'Connor.

Track listing

  1. "I'm Going Back to the Old Home" (Carter Stanley) – 2:11
  2. "Greenville Trestle High" (James Jett) – 3:25
  3. "Highway of Sorrow" (Bill Monroe, Pete Pyle) – 2:48
  4. "Fill My Way With Love" – 2:30
  5. "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart" (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs) – 2:48
  6. "Riding That Midnight Train" (Carter Stanley) – 2:04
  7. "Stone's Rag" (Traditional) – 3:20
  8. "Ramshackle Shack" (Wade Mainer) – 3:18
  9. "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 4:31
  10. "Baby Blue Eyes" (Jim Eanes) – 3:39
  11. "What Does the Deep Sea Say?" (Wade Mainer) – 3:31
  12. "Let the Church Roll On" (A. P. Carter) – 2:55
  13. "Sweet Heaven When I Die" (Claude Grant) – 2:07

Track 7 "Stone's Rag" omitted from Sugar Hill cassette tape SH-C-3752.

Personnel

  • Doc Watson – guitar, vocals
  • Merle Watson – guitar, banjo
  • T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
  • Sam Bush – mandolin
  • Béla Fleck – banjo
  • Mark O'Connor – fiddle
  • Alan O'Bryant – guitar, harmony vocals

    • Production notes

  • Produced by Barry Poss
  • Engineered and remixed by Richard Adler
  • Photography by Will & Deni McIntyre
  • Remixing by Barry Poss, Richard Adler, T. Michael Coleman
  • Artwork by Raymond Simone

    • Songs

    1I'm Going Back to the Old Home2:14
    2Greenville Trestle High3:29
    3Highway of Sorrow2:51

    References

    Riding the Midnight Train Wikipedia
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