Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!

by Doc Watson

Overview

The early and mid-1960s were good for Doc Watson in folk circles, but by the end of the decade, the folk boom was fading, and he gravitated back toward country audiences (even Joan Baez was cutting records in Nashville). This pleasant but unexceptional album was one result. Watson does genially sung, beautifully played covers of songs by Roy Acuff ("Streamline Cannonball"), Jimmie Rodgers ("Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia"), A.P. Carter ("I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"), and even Blind Boy Fuller ("Step It Up and Go"), scattered among a handful of original and traditional numbers. The playing is more impressive than the arrangements, which have that trademark Nashville smoothness, bolstered by Merle Watson and Grady Martin on guitars, Tommy Jackson and Buddy Spicher on fiddles (they get a workout on "June Apple"), Floyd Cramer at the piano, and Buddy Harman on the drums. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/1996
Label:	Vanguard
UPC:	0015707927628
Rank:	79055

Tracks

1. Alabama Jubilee
2. Streamlined Cannonball
3. Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
4. June Apple
5. I'm Thinking of My Blue Eyes
6. Memphis Blues
7. The Train That Carried My Girl from Town
8. Old Camp Meeting Time
9. Bye Bye Blues
10. Shady Grove
11. Blackberry Rag
12. The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
13. Rainbow
14. Step It Up and Go

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Doc Watson   Primary Artist,Banjo,Guitar,Vocals
Victor Battista   Bass
Buddy Spicher   Fiddle
Buddy Harman   Drums
Shot Jackson   Dobro
Floyd Cramer   Piano
Grady Martin   Guitar,Spanish Dobro
Merle Watson   Guitar
Don Stover   Banjo

Technical Credits

Bert Lown   Composer
George L. Cobb   Composer
Jimmy Rogers   Composer
Frederick Hamm   Composer
Roy Acuff   Composer
Joel Brodsky   Photography
Jules Halfant   Art Direction
George Norton   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Chauncey Gray   Composer
Jack Lothrop   Producer
Jack Yellen   Composer
Cliff Carlisle   Composer
Doc Watson   Composer,Adaptation
W.C. Handy   Composer
Mel Foree   Composer
David Bennett   Composer