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Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley - Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson: The Original Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 [2-CD Set] Audio CD

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Title: Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson: The Original Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 [2-CD Set]
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Release Date: 1994-06-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Crawdad Song - Doc Watson 2: Sitting on Top of the World [#] - Doc Watson 3: Lee Highway Blues - Doc Watson 4: Free Little Bird - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 5: Cuckoo - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 6: Rising Sun Blues - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 7: Looking T'Ward Heaven [#] - Doc Watson 8: Rambling Hobo [#] 9: Rambling Hobo [#] - Gaither Carlton 10: Shady Grove - Clarence Ashley 11: Cumberland Gap [#] 12: Tough Luck - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 13: Humpbacked Mule - Fred Price, Doc Watson 14: My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 15: Way Downtown - Doc Watson 16: Banks of the Ohio [#] - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 17: Little Sadie - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 18: Carroll County Blues [#] - Fred Price, Doc Watson 19: Cluck Old Hen [#] - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 20: Chilly Winds (Lonesome Road Blues) [#] 21: Sweet Heaven When I Die [#] - Doc Watson 22: Fire on the Mountain [#] - Fred Price, Doc Watson 23: Will the Circle Be Unbroken [#] - Doc Watson 24: Daniel Prayed - Doc Watson 25: Amazing Grace - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 26: Sally Ann - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 27: Richmond Blues - Clint Howard, Fred Price 28: Old Ruben - Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson 29: Willie Moore [#] - Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson 30: Walking Boss - Clarence Ashley 31: Shout Lulu [#] - Clarence Ashley, 32: Skillet Good and Greasy - Ralph Rinzler, Doc Watson 33: Pretty Little Pink - Doc Watson 34: Run, Jimmie, Run [#] - Doc Watson 35: Hicks' Farewell - Doc Watson 36: Old Man at the Mill - Doc Watson 37: Short Life of Trouble [#] - Arnold Watson, Doc Watson 38: Brown's Dream [#] - Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson 39: Footprints in the Snow - Doc Watson 40: I'm Going Back to Jericho - Doc Watson 41: Peg and Awl - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 42: Maggie Walker Blues - Doc Watson 43: God's Gonna Ease My Troublin' Mind - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 44: I Saw a Man at the Close of Day [#] - Fred Price, Doc Watson 45: Handsome Molly - Doc Watson 46: John Henry [#] - Gaither Carlton, Doc Watson 47: Honey Babe Blues - Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson 48: Wayfaring Pilgrim [#] - Clarence Ashley

Traditional American Music At It's Best
Rinzler encouraged Doc to return to acoustic guitar and play the traditional songs of his childhood. In 1960 Ralph Rinzler "discovered" Doc Watson playing electric guitar in a rockabilly band in North Carolina. He then brought Doc to Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere where Watson became popular in the folk music scene of the early 60's. Rinzler made these recordings of Doc playing with Clarence Ashley, an older musician who first recorded with the Carolina Tar Heels back in the 1920's. Other featured musicians include Clint Howard, Fiddlin' Fred Price and Doc's step-father Gaither Carlton.

The playing and singing is top notch on old timey classics like "Rising Sun Blues" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" as well as lesser known gems such as "Run, Jimmie, Run" and "Hicks' Farewell". Watson shares the vocal duties with Ashley, Howard and others. So if want to her Doc singing on every song you may be disappointed. But, as a big Doc Watson fan, I have also come to greatly appreciate Clarence Ashley and the other fine musicians on this record and encourage everyone to buy it. When it comes to traditional American music it doesn't get any better than this.


Wonderful research!!
He got it from his music archivist father who appearantly found something of an old English ballad as a possable source. In researching the original and ealiest recording of House of the Rising Sun for a recording project my search led me here to hear Clarence Ashley who orignaly recorded it as Rising Sun Blues in 1933. Doc Watson recorded it again with Ashley in this wonderful collection of musical heritage. Great collect of Americana/folk & blues. . . Highly recommended. .


Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson Folkways 1960-1962
It is not a very good viewing of either of these gentlemen. This CD collection is on the okay status with me. It makes both of them look and sound like not good entertainers when they really are. There are also alot of older 1920's songs on here that were re-worded and were smashed to smitharines. I would not recommend this to anyone and besides to me it is to modern in musical ways also. Bad example of both of them.


American Music for the Desert Island
And the performances are truly timeless -- it could've been 1910 or 1960 or 2010. These recordings with Doc & Clarence Ashley are as good as American folk/old-time music gets. When you've had it with flash-in-the-pan, here-today-forgotten-tomorrow dreck that's on eMpTV and the radio, then put on this disk & enjoy the music.


Clarence Ashley/Doc Watson Review
The CD featured more Ashley and less Doc than I expected. I'm a big Doc Watson fan and was expecting more vocals from Doc. I was somewhat disappointed. If you're buying this CD because your an Ashley fan then I'd think that you'll find it satisfying. On the other hand, if you're getting it because you want to hear Doc, then you may be less than satisfied.


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