Doc and the Boys

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Doc and the Boys
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Studio album by
Released1976
Studio
  • Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • "Hub Pub", Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Genre Folk, blues
Length35:00
Label United Artists
Producer Chuck Cochran
Doc Watson chronology
Memories
(1975)
Doc and the Boys
(1976)
Lonesome Road
(1977)

Doc and the Boys is the title of a recording by Doc Watson, released in 1976.

Contents

Doc and the Boys is out-of-print and was re-issued in 2003 by Southern Music packaged with Live and Pickin' .

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Track listing

  1. "Darlin' Cory" (Traditional) – 2:38
  2. "Cypress Grove Blues" (Skip James) – 4:02
  3. "I Can't Help But Wonder (Where I'm Bound)" (Tom Paxton) – 2:54
  4. "The Girl I Love" (Traditional) – 2:41
  5. "Natural Born Gamblin' Man" (Tex Atchison, Merle Travis) – 2:24
  6. "Little Maggie" (Traditional) – 3:20
  7. "Love Please Come Home" (Leon Jackson) – 3:36
  8. "Spikedriver Blues" (Mississippi John Hurt) – 2:45
  9. "Southbound Passenger Train" (Traditional) – 2:23
  10. "Southern Lady" (John Hill) – 3:35
  11. "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood) – 4:42
    Additional tracks on the Southern Music release:
  12. "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 3:08

Personnel

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References

  1. "Doc and the Boys > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.