Look Away!

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Look Away!
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Studio album by
Released1978
RecordedJanuary–February 1978
StudioThe Sound Shop, Nashville, TN
Genre Folk, blues
Length28:29
Label United Artists
Producer Mitch Greenhill, Merle Watson
Doc Watson chronology
Tradition
(1977)
Look Away!
(1978)
Live and Pickin'
(1979)

Look Away! is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1978.

Contents

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

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Allan wrote of the album "No album by this wonderful picker and his equally adept son could be without merit, although the material is not as consistently strong as they deserve." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Florida Blues" (Traditional) – 1:45
  2. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 2:47
  3. "My Love Come Rolling Down" (Eric Von Schmidt) – 3:29
  4. "Gypsy Davie" (Traditional) – 3:25
  5. "'Rangement Blues" (Traditional) – 2:51
  6. "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (Jenny Lou Carson) – 2:06
  7. "Blues in My Mind" (Fred Rose) – 2:27
  8. "It's a Crazy World" (Mac McAnally) – 2:41
  9. "Under the Double Eagle" (Traditional) – 2:26
  10. "God Holds the Future" (Traditional) – 2:53
  11. "Dixie" (Traditional) – 1:35
    Additional tracks on the Southern Music release:
  12. "New Born King" – 3:01
  13. "Peace in the Valley" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 3:02

Personnel

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References

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