Riding the Midnight Train

Infobox Album
Name = Riding the Midnight Train
Type = studio album
Artist = Doc Watson, Merle Watson


Released = 1986
Recorded = Studio 19, Nashville, TN
Genre = Folk, country blues
Length = 39:07
Label = Sugar Hill
Producer = Barry Poss
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ajfexqe5ldae link]
Chronology = Doc Watson
Last album = "Pickin' the Blues"
(1985)
This album = "Riding the Midnight Train"
(1986)
Next album = "Portrait"
(1987)

"Riding the Midnight Train" is the title of a recording by American folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1986. It is the last album Merle Watson recorded before he was tragically killed in a tractor accident.

At the Grammy Awards of 1987, "Riding the Midnight Train" won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Guests include Béla Fleck, Sam Bush and Mark O'Connor.

Track listing

# "I'm Going Back to the Old Home" (Carter Stanley) – 2:11
# "Greenville Trestle High" (James Jett) – 3:25
# "Highway of Sorrow" (Bill Monroe, Pete Pyle) – 2:48
# "Fill My Way With Love" – 2:30
# "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart" (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs) – 2:48
# "Riding That Midnight Train" (Carter Stanley) – 2:04
# "Stone's Rag" (Traditional) – 3:20
# "Ramshackle Shack" (Wade Mainer) – 3:18
# "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 4:31
# "Baby Blue Eyes" (Jim Eanes) – 3:39
# "What Does the Deep Sea Say?" (Wade Mainer) – 3:31
# "Let the Church Roll On" (A. P. Carter) – 2:55
# "Sweet Heaven When I Die" (Claude Grant) – 2:07

Personnel

*Doc Watson – guitar, vocals
*Merle Watson – guitar, banjo
*T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
*Sam Bush – mandolin
*Béla Fleck – banjo
*Mark O'Connor – fiddle
*Alan O'Bryant – guitar, harmony vocalsProduction notes
*Produced by Barry Poss
*Engineered and remixed by Richard Adler
*Photography by Robert Brown
*Remixing by Barry Poss, Richard Adler, T. Michael Coleman
*Artwork by Raymond Simone

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/docmerle.html Doc Watson discography]
* [http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/doc_watson/ Doc Watson Song Lyrics]