Lonesome Road (album)

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Lonesome Road
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Studio album by
Released1977
Studio Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, Louisiana
Genre Folk, blues
Label United Artists
Doc Watson chronology
Doc and the Boys
(1977)
Lonesome Road
(1977)
Tradition
(1977)

Lonesome Road is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1977.

Doc Watson American guitarist, songwriter and singer

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's fingerstyle guitar and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. He performed with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm.

Merle Watson North Carolina bluegrass and folk musician

Eddy Merle Watson was an American folk and bluegrass guitarist. He was best known for his performances with his father, Doc Watson. Merle played and recorded albums together with his father from age 15 until his death in a tractor accident 21 years later. Merle was widely recognized as one of the best flat-picking and slide guitarists of his generation. MerleFest, one of the world's largest and most-prestigious folk music festivals, is held annually in Wilkesboro, NC and is named in his honor.

Contents

Lonesome Road is out-of-print and was re-issued on CD in 1998 by BGO Records. It was also released in 2002 by Southern Music packaged with Look Away!. [1]

BGO Records is a record label specializing in classic rock, blues, jazz and folk music.

Look Away 1988 single by Chicago

"Look Away" is a 1988 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. Written by Diane Warren, produced by Ron Nevison, and with Bill Champlin on lead vocals, it is the second single from the band's album Chicago 19. "Look Away" is Chicago's largest selling single of all, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1988, matching the chart success of the group's "If You Leave Me Now" (1976) and "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" (1982). "Look Away" is Chicago's seventh song to have peaked at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well as the No. 1 song on the 1989 year-end Billboard Hot 100 chart, even though it never held the No. 1 spot at all in 1989.

Reception

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jim Worbois wrote of the album "Doc does the country blues as well as anything else he does and this record is filled with some fine performances." [2]

Track listing

  1. "I Recall a Gypsy Woman" (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds) – 3:49
  2. "Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 2:58
  3. "Mean Mama Blues" (Ernest Tubb) – 2:51
  4. "Look up Look Down That Lonesome Road" (Traditional) – 4:02
  5. "My Creole Belle" (J. Bodewalt Lampe) – 2:42
  6. "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore) – 2:18
  7. "Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Traditional) – 2:45
  8. "Stone Wall (Around My Heart)" (Pat Twitty) – 3:26
  9. "I Ain't Going Honky-Tonkn' Anymore" (Ernest Tubb) – 3:02
  10. "Broomstraw Philosophers and Scuppernong Wine" (Larry John Wilson) – 3:17

Personnel

T. Michael Coleman

Thomas Michael Coleman is an American bass player of bluegrass and folk music. He is best known for work with Doc Watson and the Seldom Scene.

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References

  1. Allmusic entry for Lonesome Road/Look Away!
  2. 1 2 Worbois, Jim. "Lonesome Road > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.