The Elementary Doctor Watson!

Infobox Album
Name = The Elementary Doctor Watson!
Type = studio album
Artist = Doc Watson, Merle Watson


Released = 1972
Recorded = 1972 at Jack Clement Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre = Folk, blues
Length = 39:15 (re-issue)
Label = Tomato Records
Producer = Jack Clement
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dnfexq8gldje link]
Chronology = Doc Watson
Last album = "Doc Watson on Stage"
(1971)
This album = "The Elementary Doctor Watson!"
(1972)
Next album = "Then and Now"
(1973)

"The Elementary Doctor Watson!" is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1972. It is Watson's first album after leaving the Vanguard Records label.

It was the first of three successive Watson albums to be produced by Jack Clement. The next two would win Grammy awards.

Sugar Hill records re-issued "The Elementary Doctor Watson!" on CD with four bonus tracks.

Track listing

# "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" (Traditional) – 2:48
# "The Last Thing on My Mind" (Tom Paxton) – 3:19
# "Freight Train Boogie" (Watson) – 3:00
# "More Pretty Girls Than One" (Alton Delmore, Smith) – 2:49
# "I Couldn't Believe It Was True" (Eddy Arnold, Wally Fowler) – 2:50
# "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:25
# "Worried Blues" (Traditional) – 3:12
# "Interstate Rag" (Watson) – 2:28
# "Three Times Seven" (Cliff Stone, Merle Travis) – 2:18
# "Treasures Untold" (Ellsworth Cozzens, Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:07
#:Reissue bonus tracks:
# "I'm Going Fishing" (Traditional) – 2:38
# "Little Beggar Man/Old Joe Clark" (Traditional) – 2:08
# "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 3:05
# "Old Camp Meetin' Time" (Traditional) – 2:08

Personnel

*Doc Watson – guitar, harm] onica, vocals
*Merle Watson – guitar, banjo
*Norman Blake – dobro
*Vassar Clements – fiddle
*Joe Allen – bass
*Kenny Malone – percussion
*Charles Cochran – piano, string arrangements
*Jim Colvard – guitar, baritone guitar
*Jim Isbell – drums, sound effects
*Ken Lauber – piano

Production notes

*Produced by Jack Clement
*Engineered by Ronnie Dean and Lee Hazen
*David Glasser – re-issue digital re-mastering

External links

[http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/docmerle.html Doc Watson discography]