This morning's show was 2 hours and 20 minutes of WXDU love for the man.
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My Dear Old Southern Home by Doc Watson
from the album
My Dear Old Southern Home (Sugar Hill)
R.I.P. Arthel "Doc" Watson. Stay tuned for >2
hours of Doc's music... til 9am here on WXDU.
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The Ship That Never Returned by Doc Watson
from the album
My Dear Old Southern Home (Sugar Hill)
Doc died yesterday in the hospital in Winston-Salem. He
was 89.
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That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine by Doc Watson
from the album
My Dear Old Southern Home (Sugar Hill)
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Spikedriver's Blues by
Doc Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
1970. Song from Mississippi John Hurt.
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Deep River Blues by
Doc Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
A tune he learned from the Delmore Brothers.
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Lost John by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
Traditional tune. Doc breaks out the harmonica here.
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Doc's Guitar by Doc
Watson
from the album
Foundation: The Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection
1964-1998 (Sugar Hill)
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Hold The Woodpile Down by Doc Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
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Billy In The Low Ground by Doc Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
One of many great old fiddle tunes that Doc translated to
flatpicking guitar
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I Am A Pilgrim by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
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The Clouds Are Gwine To Roll Away by Doc Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
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Movin' On by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
Doc's take on the famous tune by Canadian legend Hank Snow
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Florida Blues by Doc
Watson & David Grisman
from the album
Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc)
1997. Wow.
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Blue As I Can Be by
Doc Watson & David Grisman
from the album
Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc)
Watson Blues by Doc Watson & David Grisman
from the album
Doc & Dawg (Acoustic Disc)
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Kinfolks In Carolina by Doc Watson
from the album
Favorites (Liberty)
1973. Song from his hero Merle Travis, his son's namesake.
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Make Me A Pallet by
Doc Watson
from the album
Favorites (Liberty)
1974. 'Nuther John Hurt tune.
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Darling Cory by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc and the Boys (United Artists)
1976 album with a great photo on the back of the musicians
posing out front of the Mast General Store. Doc's boy Merle frikkin' tears
the banjo in half on this one.
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Cypress Grove Blues by
Doc Watson
from the album
Doc and the Boys (United Artists)
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Shady Grove by Doc
Watson
from the album
Good Deal! Doc Watson in Nashville (Vanguard)
1968. By request, from Sweden by a real nice young man
come from Charlotte North Carolina.
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Cumberland Gap by Doc
Watson & Clarence Ashley
from the album
Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley: The Original Folkways
Recordings 1960-1962 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Recorded in 1961 at Saltville, Virginia with Jack
Burchett.
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Little Sadie by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson at Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill)
A must-have disc with highlights of Doc's landmark four
week engagement at the famed NYC folk club in late '62 and early '63.
"Somebody fan it" indeed!
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Blue Smoke by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson at Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill)
Stunning
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St. Louis Blues by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson at Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill)
W.C. Handy song, a pillar in American music played by
another.
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Worried Blues by Doc
Watson
from the album
Trouble In Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection
1964-1998 (Sugar Hill)
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Milk Cow Blues by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc Watson at Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill)
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White House Blues by
Doc Watson
from the album
Trouble In Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection
1964-1998 (Sugar Hill)
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Miss The Mississippi And You by Doc Watson
from the album
Favorites (Liberty)
A song from one of Doc's favorite singers, Jimmie Rodgers
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Little Beggar Man/Old Joe Clarke by Doc Watson
from the album
Favorites (Liberty)
'nuther fiddle tune adopted by Doc for guitar-pickin'
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Black Mountain Rag by
Doc Watson
from the album
Foundation: The Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection
1964-1998 (Sugar Hill)
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The Girl I Love by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc and the Boys (United Artists)
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Windy & Warm by
Doc Watson
from the album
Foundation: The Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection
1964-1998 (Sugar Hill)
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Listening To The Rain by Doc & Merle Watson
from the album
Home Sweet Home (Sugar Hill)
Recordings from 1967, at home in Deep Gap, NC.
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John Henry by Doc
& Merle Watson
from the album
Home Sweet Home (Sugar Hill)
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Doc Watson & Merle Travis: First Meeting by Doc Watson & Merle Travis
from the album
(VA) Will The Circle Be Unbroken (United Artists)
Seminal American roots record from 1972
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Way Downtown by Doc
Watson & others
from the album
(VA) Will The Circle Be Unbroken (United Artists)
gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
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More Pretty Girls Than One by Doc & Merle Watson
from the album
Elementary Doctor Watson! (Tomato)
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Going Down The Road Feeling Bad by Doc & Merle Watson
from the album
Elementary Doctor Watson! (Tomato)
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Rising Sun Blues by
Doc & Merle Watson
from the album
The Best of Doc Watson 1964-1968 (Vanguard)
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Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms by Doc Watson
from the album
The Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
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Little Maggie by Doc
Watson
from the album
Doc and the Boys (United Artists)
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Dixie by Doc &
Merle Watson
from the album
Look Away! (United Artists)
1978
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Southbound by Doc
& Merle Watson
from the album
Doc Watson On Stage, featuring Merle Watson (Vanguard)
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Country Blues by Doc
Watson
from the album
Trouble In Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection
1964-1998 (Sugar Hill)
Killer song that he got from Dock Boggs
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Down In The Valley To Pray by Doc Watson
from the album
The Best of Doc Watson 1964-1968 (Vanguard)
R.I.P. Doc!
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