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Vanguard Years [Box] by Doc Watson

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Vanguard Years [Box] by Doc Watson
 
 
 
 
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Personnel includes: Arthel "Doc" Watson (guitar, harmonica); Merle Watson, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins (guitar); Clarence Ashley, Arnold Watson, Gaither Carlton, Clarence White, Don Stover, Clint Howard, Fred Price. Compilation producer: Mary Katherine Aldin. Recorded between 1963 and 1971. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin. THE VANGUARD YEARS collects tracks from Doc Watson's tenure at Vanguard Records as well as previously unreleased live performances with his son, Merle Watson, and Merle Travis. Newcomers to the music of Doc Watson may want to wet their feet with the single-disc overview THE ESSENTIAL DOC WATSON, but THE VANGUARD YEARS, a four-disc box set that documents the singer/guitarist through the 1960s and early '70s, is the definitive Watson collection. Watson's Vanguard recordings, with their emphasis on straightforward simplicity (Watson's singing style is direct and unaffected, and he often performs unaccompanied), epitomize the down-home folk sound. The simplicity can be deceptive...
 

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Down-Home, Up-on-the-Mountain, Flat-Picking Good

Date of Review:  Aug 22, 2000
Review: This 4-disc box set documents much of what Doc Watson recorded for Vanguard. It begins with his appearances at ?63 and ?64 Newport Folk Festival, and ends in the early 70s. With his vast knowledge of traditional music and personable attitudes, he...
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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Key Information

Artist Doc Watson
Record Label Vanguard Records (USA)
Contributing Artist Merle Watkins
Genre International
Subgenre Appalachian
Release Date November 21, 1995
Album Duration 175m:00s
Number of Discs 4

Song List: Disc 1

  1. Rambling Hobo
2. Train That Carried My Girl From Town
3. Coo Coo
4. Reuben's Train
5. Hicks' Farewell
6. Grandfather's Clock
7. Beaumont Rag
8. Farewell Blues
9. Footprints in the Snow
10. Intoxicated Rat
11. Talk About Suffering
12. Omie Wise
13. Country Blues
14. Black Mountain Rag
15. Doc's Guitar
16. Deep River Blues

Song List: Disc 2

  1. Muskrat
2. Dream of the Miner's Child
3. Rising Sun Blues
4. Otto Wood the Bandit
5. Little Sadie
6. Windy and Warm
7. Tennessee Stud
8. Blue Railroad Train
9. Down in the Valley to Pray
10. Dill Pickle Rag
11. F.F.V.
12. Childhood Play
13. Streamline Cannonball
14. Old Camp Meeting Time
15. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
16. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band

Song List: Disc 3

  1. New River Train
2. Rank Stranger
3. Corrina Corrina
4. What Does the Deep Sea Say
5. There's More Pretty Girls Than One
6. Way Downtown
7. Brown's Ferry Blues
8. Spike Driver Blues
9. Roll on Buddy
10. I Am a Pilgrim
11. Wabash Cannonball
12. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
13. Lawson Family Murder
14. Cuckoo
15. Alabama Bound

Song List: Disc 4

  1. Bye Bye Bluebells (previously unreleased)
2. Kinfolks in Carolina (previously unreleased)
3. San Antonio Rose (previously unreleased)
4. Blow Your Whistle Freight Train (previously unreleased)
5. Cannonball Rag (previously unreleased)
6. I Am a Pilgrim (previously unreleased)
7. Arrangement Blues (previously unreleased)
8. I Got a Pig at Home in the Pen (previously unreleased)
9. My Rough and Rowdy Ways (previously unreleased)
10. Deep River Blues (previously unreleased)
11. Banks of the Ohio (previously unreleased)
12. A-Roving on a Winter's Night (previously unreleased)
13. Southbound (previously unreleased)
14. Memphis Blues (previously unreleased)
15. Salt Creek / Bill Cheatham (previously unreleased)
16. Brown's Ferry Blues (previously unreleased)
17. Windy and Warm (previously unreleased)
 

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Release Date: 1995-11-21, Audio CD, Vanguard Records
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