Red Rocking Chair

Infobox Album
Name = Red Rocking Chair
Type = studio album
Artist = Doc Watson, Merle Watson


Released = 1981
Recorded = Dec 1980-Jan 1981, Crimson Sound, Santa Monica, CA
Genre = Folk, blues
Length = 28:46
Label = Flying Fish
Producer = Mitch Greenhill
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfexqe5ldae link]
Chronology = Doc Watson
Last album = "Reflections"
(1980)
This album = "Red Rocking Chair"
(1981)
Next album = "Doc and Merle Watson's Guitar Album"
(1983)

"Red Rocking Chair" is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1981. It is their first release on the Flying Fish label.

Track listing

# "Sadie" (T. Michael Coleman, Bob Hilliard) – 2:23
# "Fisher's Hornpipe/Devil's Dream" (Traditional) – 1:38
# "Along the Road" (Dan Fogelberg) – 2:42
# "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams) – 2:39
# "Below Freezing" (Coleman) – 2:12
# "California Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:13
# "John Hurt" (Tom Paxton, Doc Watson) – 2:22
# "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 2:22
# "Any Old Time" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:21
# "Red Rocking Chair" (Traditional, Watson) – 1:57
# "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 2:42
# "Down Yonder" (Traditional) – 2:15

Personnel

*Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, harmonica
*Merle Watson – guitar, dobro, banjo
*T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
*Herb Pedersen – harmony vocals
*Ron Tutt – drums
*Gene Estes – percussion
*Hank "Bones" Kahn – bones
*Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
*Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
*Byron Berline – fiddle
*Tom Scott – clarinetProduction notes
*Mitch Greenhill – producer
*Hank Cicalo – engineer
*Milt Calise – assistant engineer
*Jon Hartley Fox – liner notes

External links

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