Doc Watson - 3 LP Vinyl Lot
with Merle Watson - Pickin' the Blues - Flying Fish FF 352
with Clint Howard and Fred Price - Old Timey Concert - Vanguard VSD 107/8

Condition: Near Mint Vinyl and Near Mint Covers. Vinyl was play-tested on all sides and all play beautifully with good fidelity. Covers are fully intact with good color and no splits or writing. Pickin' the Blues still has shrink wrap; Old Timey Concert is a 2 LP gatefold.

Pickin' the Blues is an album by folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1985. Writing for AllMusic, music critic Eugene Chadbourne wrote of the album "What we have here is really a delightful blend of several different blues traditions, transcending the stupid questions of race as if it were a bit of dust that can be blown off the phonograph needle... Watson is such a fine vocalist that he is able to make a number such as this sound relatively fresh, no doubt helped by a blend of acoustic instruments not normally associated with this type of tune. But whatever style the players take on, everything is performed beautifully with deep feeling, comfortable tempos, and inspired picking that is never simply grandstanding. Fans of acoustic guitar will love this record — the instruments are recorded beautifully, especially in that warm, sonorous mid-register."

Track Listing

A1 Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
A2 Sittin' Here Pickin' The Blues
A3 Stormy Weather
A4 Windy And Warm
A5 St. Louis Blues
A6 Jailhouse Blues

B1 Freight Train Blues
B2 Hobo Bill's Last Ride
B3 Carroll County Blues
B4 Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
B5 I'm A Stranger Here
B6 Honey Babe Blues

Personnel
Doc Watson – guitar, vocals, harmonica
Merle Watson – guitar, slide guitar
T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
Sam Bush – fiddle, mandolin
Joe Smothers – background vocals (Track 2 Only)

Old-Timey Concert is a live recording by folk music artists Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price. Originally released as a double LP, recorded in 1967 for the Seattle Folklore Society.

Old-Timey Concert AllMusic Review by Jim Smith
Although Doc Watson, Clint Howard, and Fred Price were giving similar concerts at the beginning of the '60s, this performance for the Seattle Folklore Society wasn't recorded until 1967. Nonetheless, it gives a good sense of the state of Watson's art before he went solo, finding him in cahoots with neighbors and friends and singing old-time material in an intimate setting. 

This album features a few solo performances by Watson and terrific, cheerful interplay among all three men. "Sunny Tennessee," "Walking in Jerusalem," "Crawdad," and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" are highlights, but this is a highly entertaining concert throughout, with a few songs like "Mountain Dew" containing guitar breaks that are fast even by Watson's standards. 

Tracklist

A1 New River Train
A2 What Does The Deep Sea Say
A3 Sunny Tennessee
A4 Walkin' In Jerusalem
A5 Sittin' On Top Of The World
A6 Pretty Little Pink

B1 Sears-Roebuck Routine
B2 My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
B3 Slewfoot
B4 Little Orphan Girl
B5 Long Journey Home
B6 Rank Stranger
B7 Crawdad

C1 There's More Pretty Girls Than One
C2 My Mama's Gone (Gambler's Yodel)
C3 Fire On The Mountain (Instrumental)
C4 Eastbound Train
C5 Reuben's Train
C6 On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee
C7 Mountain Dew

D1 Corinna Corinna
D2 Footprints In The Snow
D3a I Saw A Man At The Close Of The Day
D3b Cackling Hen (Instrumental)
D4 Wanted Man
D5 Way Downtown
D6 Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Personnel
Doc Watson – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, vocals
Clint Howard – guitar, vocals
Fred Price – fiddle, vocals
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