Tradition (Doc Watson album)

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Tradition
TraditionWatsonFamily.jpg
Studio album by Doc Watson
Released 1977
Recorded September 1964-May 1965
Genre Folk, blues
Label Rounder
Producer Ralph Rinzler
Doc Watson chronology
Lonesome Road
(1977) Lonesome Road1977
Tradition
(1977)
Look Away!
(1978) Look Away!1978

Tradition (subtitled The Doc Watson Family) is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Family. It was recorded in 1964 - 1965 and not released until 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.

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Track listing

All songs Traditional.

  1. "Georgie" – 0:54
  2. "Fish in the Mill Pond" – 1:39
  3. "Julie Jenkins" – 0:42
  4. "Hushabye" – 0:16
  5. "Baa Nanny Black Sheep" – 0:56
  6. "Sheepy and the Goat" – 0:23
  7. "I Heard My Mother Weeping" – 3:02
  8. "Reuben's Train" – 2:40
  9. "Biscuits" – 3:14
  10. "Tucker's Barn" – 2:23
  11. "Give the Fiddler a Dram" – 1:52
  12. "And Am I Born to Die?" – 3:29
  13. "Marthy, Won't You Have Some Good Old Cider?" – 2:06
  14. "A-Roving on a Winter's Night" – 1:51
  15. "Arnold's Tune" – 0:46
  16. "Pretty Saro" – 2:12
  17. "Early, Early in the Spring" – 2:04
  18. "Little Maggie" – 2:36
  19. "Bill Banks" – 2:30
  20. "Rambling Hobo" – 1:02
  21. "One Morning in May" – 1:58
  22. "The Faithful Soldier" – 3:29
  23. "Omie Wise" – 2:43
  24. "Jimmy Sutton" – 1:12

Personnel

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.

Gaither Wiley Carlton was an American Old-time fiddle player and banjo player. He is best known for his appearances accompanying his son-in-law Doc Watson during the folk music revival of the 1960s. While not recorded before the folk revival, Carlton had been playing with some of the region's most well-known musicians— such as Al Hopkins, G. B. Grayson, and Clarence Ashley— since the 1920s.

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References

  1. "Tradition > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.