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

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

Band: Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley Title: Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson: The Original Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 [2-CD Set] Rating: Release Date: 1994-06-28 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Crawdad Song 2: Sitting on Top of the World - Doc Watson, Chatmon, Lonnie 3: Lee Highway Blues 4: Free Little Bird 5: The Cuckoo 6: Rising Sun Blues 7: Looking T'Ward Heaven - Doc Watson, Presley, Luther G. 8: Rambling Hobo 9: Rambling Hobo 10: Shady Grove 11: Cumberland Gap 12: Tough Luck 13: Humpbacked Mule 14: My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - Doc Watson, Carter, A.P. 15: Way Downtown 16: Banks of the Ohio 17: Little Sadie 18: Carroll County Blues 19: Cluck Old Hen 20: Chilly Winds (Lonesome Road Blues) 21: Sweet Heaven When I Die 22: Fire on the Mountain 23: Will the Circle Be Unbroken 24: Daniel Prayed - Doc Watson, Speer, G.T. 25: Amazing Grace - Doc Watson, Newton, John 26: Sally Ann 27: Richmond Blues - Doc Watson, Ashley, Clarence 28: Old Ruben 29: Willie Moore 30: Walking Boss 31: Shout Lulu 32: Skillet Good and Greasy 33: Pretty Little Pink 34: Run, Jimmie, Run 35: Hicks' Farewell 36: The Old Man at the Mill 37: A Short Life of Trouble 38: Brown's Dream 39: Footprints in the Snow 40: I'm Going Back to Jericho 41: Peg and Awl 42: Maggie Walker Blues 43: God's Gonna Ease My Troublin' Mind 44: I Saw a Man at the Close of Day - Doc Watson, Grayson, G.B. 45: Handsome Molly 46: John Henry 47: Honey Babe Blues 48: Wayfaring Pilgrim

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. Classic, fun, wonderful After 40 years, they are still fresh, fun, and fantasic, they make me want to pick up my guitar and my banjo and pick behind them. I've owned these recordings first as records, then as tapes, and now as CDs since they came out in the early 1960s. You will find that there is a slight overlap in the cds compared with the original versions of the records. More tunes and more players are on here, particularly banjo players, than on the original records, and some tunes that were on the original recordings under this title now appear on Smithsonian Folkways' new version of the Watson Family. All and all, I couldn't think of the last 40 years of my life without these CDs. You can see a complete list of all Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley discography, or go back to the Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley tabs