Recorded live February 10, 1963 at Club 47 in Cambridge, MA, today known as Club Passim, this never-before-heard album features four previously unreleased songs from Doc’s early repertoire, in addition to performances of Doc’s favorite songs of the Carter Family, Frank Hutchison, Charlie Poole, and Merle Travis. Doc is accompanied by John Herald and Ralph Rinzler of The Greenbrier Boys on five of the album’s tracks. “This recording documents a pivotal moment in virtuoso Doc Watson’s early solo career,” notes Steven Weiss, director of the Southern Folklife Collection. “This is Doc, paying his dues and playing his heart out, performing two sets of classic, old-time country songs he learned as a child from his family and from old 78 RPM records.” Following the success of the Club 47 show, Doc was booked at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and released his debut solo album on Vanguard Records in 1964. He went on to become America’s premier folk guitarist earning seven Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, and in 1997 was presented with the National Medal of Arts at the White House by then-President Bill Clinton, who introduced him saying, “There may not be a serious, committed baby boomer alive who didn’t spend at least some of his or her youth trying to learn to pick guitar like Doc Watson.”
TRACKS
A1 Wabash Cannonball
A2 The House Carpenter
A3 I Wish I Was Single Again
A4 Little Darling Pal of Mine
A5 Train That Carried My Girl from Town
A6 Worried Bluez
B1 Old Dan Tucker
B2 Sweet Heaven When I Die
B3 Doc’s Talkin’ Blues
B4 Little Margaret
B5 Sitting On Top of the World
B6 Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
B7 Blue Smoke
C1 Deep River Blues
C2 Way Downtown
C3 Somebody Touched Me
C4 Billy in the Low Ground
C5 Boil Them Cabbage Down
C6 Everyday Dirt
D1 I Am a Pilgrim
D2 No Telephone in Heaven
D3 Hop High Ladies the Cake’s All Dough
D4 Little Sadie
D5 Black Mountain Rag
D6 Blackberry Rag
D7 Days of My Childhood Plays
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Folk
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