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DOC WATSON
A conversation with the mountain guitar legend Doc Watson, who recently celebrated his 75th birthday.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Freight Train Boogie Doc Watson
Elementary Doctor Watson!, United Artists - Casey Jones Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers - Reefer Man Baron Lee and the Blue Rhythm Band
Stars of the Apollo, Columbia Legacy - Light Up and Listen Radio Show Excerpt
- Smoke Rings k. d. lang
Drag, Warner Brothers - Instrumental: Hoopah Rag Bob Wills
Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA - So Let's Rock Bob Wills
Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA - The Blues Had A Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll Muddy Waters
Mojo Workin' - Blues for the Next Generation, Columbia/Legacy - Sweet Little Rock and Roller Chuck Berry
His Best Volume 2, Chess/MCA - Rock & Roll Velvet Underground
Loaded, Polydor - Little Maggie Grayson & Whitter
Old-Time Southern Dance Music - Ballads and Songs, Old Timey - Avalon Blues Mississippi John Hurt
Avalon Blues 1963, Rounder - Hummingbird Victoria Williams
Musings of a Creek Dipper, Atlantic - Instrumental: Doc & Dawg Doc Watson & David Grisman
Doc & Dawg, Acoustic Disc - INTERVIEW: Doc Watson
- Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms Doc Watson
Ballads from Deep Gap, Vanguard - Rain Crow Bill Doc Watson
Home Again, Vanguard - John Henry/Worried Blues Doc Watson
Doc & Merle Watson's Guitar Album, Flying Fish - Make Me a Pallet on your Floor Doc Watson
Live Labor Day American Roots program from Wolftrap, - Good Times Sam Cooke
The Man and his Music, RCA - Hora Decubitus Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Impulse
HOUR two
- Butler's Boogie Henry Butler
Blues After Sunset, Black Top - Big Ten Inch Record Moose Jackson w/Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra
Risqué Rhythm - Nasty ‘50s R & B, Rhino - Phonograph Blues Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings, Columbia - I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin Songs Today Moe Bandy
The Best of Bandy Volume 1, Columbia - Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers, Virgin - Chan Chan Buena Vista Social Club w/Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club, World Circuit/Nonesuch - Boppin' the Rock Armando Almendarez & Conjunto Mexico
San Antonio's Conjunto's in the 1950s, Arhoolie - Instrumental: Quand la nuit coule du ciel The Bluerunners
To The Country, Rounder - Helpless Neil Young
Decade, Reprise - Cutting Ferns/Alex Dan MacIsacc's/Brenda Stubbert's/Mutt's Favorite/Bernadette's/Lady Gordon of Gordonstown Jerry Holland
The Fiddlesticks Collection, Green Linnet - Adieu Rosa Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Friday At Last, Swallow - Instrumental: Bubber (If Only) Olu Dara
In The World - From Natchez to New York, Atlantic - Jumpin' Tonight Joe Turner
The Complete Aladdin and Imperial Recordings, EMI - The Jeep Is Jumpin' Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, Impulse - Indians Jumpin' on Fire Mahogany Brass
Kickin' Some Brass, Shanachie - Tramp Otis and Carla
Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968, Atlantic - My Home Has Wheels Southern Culture on the Skids
Ditch Digger, Safe House - This Land Is Your Land Woodie Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land, Smithsonian Folkways - End Bed: Thunder Road/Sugarfoot Rag Doc Watson
Docabilly, Sugar Hill