The Essential Doc Watson

Infobox Album
Name = The Essential Doc Watson
Type = compilation album
Artist = Doc Watson


Released = 1973
Recorded = 1963, 1964
Genre = Folk, blues
Length = 65:56
Label = Vanguard
Producer = Ralph Rinzler, Jack Lothrop
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0jfexqe5ldae link]
Chronology = Doc Watson
Last album = "Then and Now"
(1973)
This album = "The Essential Doc Watson"
(1964)
Next album = "Two Days in November"
(1974)

"The Essential Doc Watson" is the title of a recording by Doc Watson, released in 1973. It was originally released as a double-LP.

The first LP of the original release contains studio recordings from Watson's early Vanguard releases. The second LP tracks were recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and 1965. It was re-issued on CD in 1991.

Track listing

# "Tom Dooley" (Traditional) – 3:13
# "Alberta" (Leadbelly) – 2:40
# "Froggie Went A-Courtin' (Traditional) – 4:02
# "Beaumont Rag" (Traditional) – 1:37
# "St. James Hospital" (James "Iron Head" Baker) – 3:25
# "Muskrat" (Traditional) – 2:51
# "Down in the Valley to Pray (Traditional) – 1:57
# "Blue Railroad Train (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 2:41
# "Rising Sun Blues" (Ashley) –4:17
# "Shady Grove (Traditional) – 2:55
# "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" (Elsie McWilliams, Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:28
# "The Train That Carried My Girl from Town (Traditional) – 3:45
#:Live from the Newport Folk Festival:
# "Black Mountain Rag (Traditional) – 1:30
# "I Was a Stranger" (Jimmie Rodgers] ) – 3:05
# "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues (Traditional) – 2:20
# "Country Blues" (Dock Boggs) – 3:05
# "Ground Hog (Traditional) – 1:40
# "Little Orphan Girl (Traditional) – 2:50
# "Blackberry Blossom" – 1:50
# "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" – 2:05
# "Rambling Hobo (Traditional) – 0:56
# "Omie Wise" (Traditional) – 4:05
# "Handsome Molly (Traditional) – 2:00
# "White House Blues (Traditional) – 1:30
# "I Want to Love Him More (Traditional) – 2:05
# "Way Downtown (Traditional) – 2:00

Personnel

*Doc Watson – guitar, banjo, harmonica, vocals
*Merle Watson – banjo, guitar
*Gaither Carlton – fiddle
*Floyd Cramer – piano
*Buddy Harman – drums
*Clint Howard – vocals
*Roy M. "Junior" Husky – bass
*Shot Jackson – dobro
*Tommy Jackson – fiddle
*Grady Martin – dobro, guitar
*Fred Price – fiddle
*Russ Savacus – bass
*Buddy Spicher – fiddle
*Don Stover – banjo
*Arnold Watson – banjo, vocals
*Mrs. General Dixon Watson – vocals
*Eric Weissberg – bass