Songs for Little Pickers

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Songs for Little Pickers
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Live album by
Released1990
RecordedCentre Stage, Atlanta, GA March 24, 1990
Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, August 21, 1988
Archival recording, Folklore Productions
Genre Folk
Length34:15
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Mitch Greenhill
Doc Watson chronology
On Praying Ground
(1990)
Songs for Little Pickers
(1990)
My Dear Old Southern Home
(1991)

Songs for Little Pickers is a live album by American folk music artist Doc Watson, released in 1990. It contains songs Watson learned as a child.

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Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Talkin' Guitar" – 2:31
  2. "Mole in the Ground" – 2:39
  3. "Mama Blues" – 1:38
  4. "Froggie Went A-Courtin'" – 4:04
  5. "Shady Grove" – 2:48
  6. "Riddle Song" – 2:41
  7. "Sing Song Kitty " – 2:20
  8. "John Henry" – 4:23
  9. "Sally Goodin' " – 0:55
  10. "Crawdad Song" – 2:31
  11. "And the Green Grass Grew All Around" – 2:50
  12. "Liza Jane" – 1:58
  13. "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmie Driftwood) – 4:38

Personnel

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References

  1. "Songs for Little Pickers > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.