- 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 andMerle Watson , released in 1972. It is Watson's first album after leaving theVanguard Records label.It was the first of three successive Watson albums to be produced by
Jack Clement . The next two would winGrammy 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) – 2:08Personnel
*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 – pianoProduction notes
*Produced by Jack Clement
*Engineered by Ronnie Dean and Lee Hazen
*David Glasser – re-issue digital re-masteringExternal links
[http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/docmerle.html Doc Watson discography]
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