Black Mountain Rag (Doc Watson album)

Infobox Album
Name = Black Mountain Rag
Type = compilation album
Artist = Doc Watson, Merle Watson


Released = September 19, 2006
Recorded =
Genre = Folk, blues
Length =
Label = Rounder
Producer = Mitch Greenhill, Tony Rice, Norman Blake
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jcfuxqtdldte link]
Chronology = Doc Watson
Last album = "Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues"
(2004)
This album = "Black Mountain Rag"
(2006)
Next album = "Vanguard Visionaries"
(2008)

"Black Mountain Rag" is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 2006. It contains songs taken from albums that Doc and Merle recorded on the Flying Fish label in the 1980's.

A 1990 trio bonus track of "Blackberry Blossom" with Doc, Norman Blake and Tony Rice is included.

Track listing

# "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:42
# "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams) – 2:47
# "Black Pine Waltz" (Traditional) – 2:34
# "Red Rocking Chair" (Traditional, Watson) – 2:06
# "Twinkle, Twinkle" (Traditional) – 3:04
# "Below Freezing" (Coleman) – 2:20
# "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 2:30
# "Liza/Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) – 2:56
# "Down Yonder" (Traditional) – 2:23
# "Cotton Row" (Traditional) – 2:47
# "Sadie" (T. Michael Coleman, Bob Hilliard) – 2:30
# "Leaving London" (Tom Paxton) – 2:32
# "Guitar Polka" (Dexter, Paris) – 2:22
# "Fisher's Hornpipe/Devil's Dream" (Traditional) – 1:44
# "Along the Road" (Dan Fogelberg) – 2:52
# "Bye Bye Bluebelle/Smiles" (Travis) – 2:13
# "Sheeps in the Meadow/Stoney Fork" (Traditional) – 2:53
# "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer) – 2:17
# "Blackberry Blossom" (Traditional) – 3:15
# "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 2:31

Personnel

*Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica
*Merle Watson – guitar, dobro, banjo, slide guitar
*T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
*Herb Pedersen – harmony vocals
*Mark O'Connor – fiddle, mandolin
*Tony Rice – guitar
*Norman Blake – mandolin
*Ron Tutt – drums
*Gene Estes – percussion
*Hank "Bones" Kahn – bones
*Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
*Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
*Byron Berline – fiddle
*Tom Scott – clarinet
*Pat McInerney – drums, percussionProduction notes
*Hank Cicalo – engineer
*Ernie Winfrey – engineer
*Bill Wolf – engineer
*Jonathan Wyner – mastering