Remembering Merle

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Remembering Merle
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 1992
Recorded1970–1976
Genre Folk, gospel
Length58:28
Label Sugar Hill
Producer T. Michael Coleman
Doc Watson chronology
My Dear Old Southern Home
(1991)
Remembering Merle
(1992)
Songs from the Southern Mountains
(1994)

Remembering Merle is the title of a recording by American folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1992. The songs were all recorded live between 1970 and 1976.

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Track listing

  1. "Frosty Morn" (Traditional) – 3:44
  2. "Omie Wise" (Traditional) – 5:52
  3. "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 3:23
  4. "Honey Babe Blues" (Traditional) – 3:01
  5. "St. James Infirmary" (Joe Primrose, Traditional) – 3:52
  6. "Honey Please Don't Go" (Hodges) – 2:30
  7. "Nancy Rowland/Salt Creek" – 1:55
  8. "Miss the Mississippi and You" (Halley) – 4:20
  9. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) – 2:46
  10. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:30
  11. "New River Train" (Traditional) – 3:38
  12. "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:39
  13. "Southern Lady Hill" – 3:36
  14. "Mama Don't Allow It" (Cahn, Davenport) – 5:02
  15. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins) – 2:35
  16. "Wayfaring Stranger" – 3:30
  17. "Thoughts of Never" (Watson) – 2:35

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. Owens, Thom. "Remembering Merle > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.