Trouble in Mind: Doc Watson Country Blues Collection

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Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection
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Compilation album by Doc Watson
Released April 8, 2003
Genre Folk, blues
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Fred Jasper (compilation)
Doc Watson chronology
Tennessee Stud
(2003)
Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection
(2003)
Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues
(2004)

Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection (or simply Trouble in Mind) is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artist Doc Watson, released in 2003. It contains recordings by Watson in the country blues style.

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Track listing

  1. "Country Blues" (Traditional) – 3:32
  2. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Sam Chatmon, Walter Vinson) – 2:38
  3. "Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 1:59
  4. "Gambler's Yodel" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 2:54
  5. "Rain Crow Bill" (Whittier) – 1:46
  6. "My Little Woman, You're So Sweet" (Traditional) – 2:21
  7. "Lost John" (Traditional) – 3:26
  8. "Deep River Blues" (Traditional) – 3:38
  9. "Georgie Buck" (Traditional) – 2:18
  10. "Anniversary Blue Yodel [Blue Yodel No. 7]" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:10
  11. "Memphis Blues" (Miller) – 1:35
  12. "Stackolee" (Traditional) – 3:54
  13. "Worried Blues" (Traditional) – 2:52
  14. "Spike Driver Blues" (Mississippi John Hurt) – 2:58
  15. "Never No Mo' Blues" (Rodgers, Williams) – 3:13
  16. "Honey Babe Blues" (Traditional) – 2:58
  17. "White House Blues" (Traditional) – 1:55

Personnel

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References

  1. "Trouble in Mind: Doc Watson Country Blues Collection > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.