The Best Of Doc Watson 1964-1968

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The Best Of Doc Watson 1964-1968
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Artist: Doc Watson
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Muskrat
  2. Country Blues
  3. Rising Sun Blues
  4. Tennesse Stud
  5. Down In The Valley To Pray
  6. Dill Pickle Rag
  7. Otto Wood The Bandit
  8. Windy And Warm
  9. Little Sadie
  10. Blue Railroad Train
  11. Omie Wise
  12. Intoxicated Rat
  13. Tom Dooley
  14. Alberta
  15. Beaumont Rag
  16. Shady Grove
  17. My Rough And Rowdy Ways
  18. The Train That Carried My Girl From Town
  19. Black Mountain Rag
  20. Grandfather's Clock
  21. The Cyclone Of Ryecov
  22. Doc's Guitar
  23. Crawdad Hole

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Music Review: Doc Watson is a fast guitar picker and bluegrass innovator!
Rating: 5 Stars

As an impressionable teenager in the mid 1960s, I was one of the youngest members of the Seattle Folklore Society (the folks who later started the Northwest Folklife Festival). In those early days, they would rent small halls and bring in old black blues musicians like Rev. Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb and Jesse Fuller, and relatively unknown folk musicians like Buffy Sainte Marie and Doc Watson.

Watson is an incredibly talented blind guitar and banjo picker from the Blue Ridge Mountains with a resonant voice. The night I saw Doc Watson, he was ushered to a lone chair at the center of a small stage, and within one or two songs, I felt like I was sitting at his kitchen table, as he sang songs from the mountains of North Carolina with a decidedly bluegrass flavor. At the time, I just knew he was one of the fastest flat-picking and fingerpicking guitarists around, who held the respect of anyone who had taken up the instrument in the Sixties.

What I didn't know then was that Watson is largely responsible for shifting bluegrass guitar from a supportive rhythm guitar role (so that fiddlers and banjo pickers could shine) to playing leads, which is standard practice these days.

Vanguard Records, the company that released these original 1960s era recordings, came out with this "Best of" album in the late 1990s, with over 65 minutes of tunes, many of which have become standards by other artists, like "Rising Sun Blues" (known to most of us as "The House of the Rising Sun," although with a different tune), "Tennessee Stud" (a great horse song), "Down in the Valley To Pray" (an inspiring white spiritual), "Tom Dooley" (quite different from the Kingston Trio version), "Alberta" (about a girl, not a province in Canada), "Black Mountain Rag" (still one of my favorite bluegrass guitar instrumentals, "Grandfather's Clock" ("...it stopped short, never to go again when the old man died"), "Doc's Guitar" (if only I could play half that fast), and "Crawdad Hole."

While a few cuts on this album are done with a bluegrass band, on most he is alone, or with one other guitarist (including his late son, Merle). On these more intimate cuts it still feels like he's sitting at his kitchen table playing just for me (or you, if you get this CD). If you like bluegrass, or simply some of the best acoustic guitar ever recorded, this is highly recommended!

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