Audio CD review:
Doc Watson - Memories

Doc Watson - Memories

Band: Doc Watson Title: Memories Rating: Release Date: 2004-06-07 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Rambling Hobo - Doc Watson, Watson, Doc 2: Shady Grove - Doc Watson, Traditional 3: Wake Up, Little Maggie - Doc Watson, Watson, Doc 4: Peartree - Doc Watson, Watson, Doc 5: Keep on the Sunny Side - Doc Watson, Carter, A.P. 6: Double File and Salt Creek - Doc Watson, Traditional 7: Curly Headed Baby - Doc Watson, Leatherman, L. 8: Miss the Mississippi and You - Doc Watson, Halley, Bill 9: Wabash Cannonball - Doc Watson, Carter, A.P. 10: My Rose of Old Kentucky - Doc Watson, Monroe, Bill [1] 11: Blues Stay Away from Me - Doc Watson, Delmore, Alton 12: Walking Boss - Doc Watson, 13: Make Me a Pallet - Doc Watson, Parish, Joe 14: In the Jailhouse Now - Doc Watson, Rodgers, Jimmie [1] 15: Steel Guitar Rag - Doc Watson, McAuliffe, Leon 16: Hang Your Head in Shame - Doc Watson, Rose, Fred 17: You Don't Know My Mind Blues - Doc Watson, Gray, Henry 18: Moody River - Doc Watson, Bruce, Gary D. 19: Don't Tell Me Your Troubles - Doc Watson, Gibson, Don 20: Columbus Stockade - Doc Watson, Davis, J. 21: Mama Don't Allow No Music - Doc Watson, PD 22: Thoughts of Never - Doc Watson, Watson, M.

Simply Amazing its for shure the best doc album right up with home sweet home. This album is amazing. It starts of with the first song doc ever learned on the banjo (his first instrument after the harmonica), and from there it is some what chronological, starting with old time ballads and foot stompers and ending with full band arangements and merle's masterpeice; thoughts of never. It is full of merle tearing it up on the slide guitar and has a bunch of songs where doc kills the banjo clawhammer style. There are songs with drums, fiddle and even fender rhodes piano on a couple. Cloumbus stockade is a standout dark and roudy number, and moody river will break anyones heart thats not a complete idiot. Merle plays a real pritty slide guitar on miss the mississippi next to doc's real, real pritty singing. Anyways, this cd is full of serious heart breakers and roudy numbers that will have you hitting the bottle and letting out rebel yells. This is the best doc watson album ever. Hard To Top This !!! This disc has it all - old time fiddle tunes transcribed to guitar, folk blues, you name it. Doc Watson's long career has brought forth numerous excellent albums, but Memories is probably the best starting place. The playing is excellent, the recording is very good for its era and the song selection is spot on. Look at it this way: while recently loading all of my favorite Doc songs onto a new MP3 player, I was unable to leave a single track from Memories off. It is that good. Traditional American Music By a Master Guitarist Originally recorded for Capitol and released in 1975 as a 2-LP set, these twenty-two songs are an excellent introduction to traditional American music and what makes Doc Watson one of the best flatpick guitarists ever. Doc Watson has recorded dozens of albums for many labels over the decades, but MEMORIES is one of my favorites. These tunes reveal Doc's influences from Jimmie Rodgers to the Carter Family to Mississippi John Hurt and Bob Wills. Many of these songs are performed with a full band--including drums--but the best performances are when the accompanyment is sparse, like on "Shady Grove," "Keep on the Sunny Side" and "Double File and Salt Creek," where it's just Doc, his son Merle and a bass player. Especially enjoyable is when Merle plays slide guitar on tunes like "Curly Headed Baby," "In the Jailhouse Now," "Steel Guitar Rag" and "Wabash Cannonball," the latter includes Sam Bush on fiddle. [In fact, Bush plays fiddle on six tracks in addition to playing mandolin on "Mama Don't Allow No Music. ] The album closes with what Doc says "is one of the most beautiful tunes I have ever heard. " The song, "Thoughts of Never," was written by Merle who performs this instrumental on classical guitar with only Chuck Cochran accompanying him on piano. If you're looking for a solid introduction to the world of Doc Watson and his son Merle, this is an excellent place to begin the journey. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED . Sooo Good It is simple and pure and beautiful. I have seen other professional reviews give this collection mediocre reviews, but after years of enjoying doc, this is still my favorite. Totally satisfying and you unsuspectingly are immersed in his genius. Most popular bluegrass includes such full bands that hearing some of the gentle sad ballads is so moving (although plenty or of rockin blues tunes are on here). You want and can sing along and feel the emotion so strongly. I adore this collection after many years. He is a treasure. Must have! Then I found this album in a record store sometime later. When I first heard Doc Watson was in West Virginia, about 1980. There's never been and unfortunately never will be another Doc Watson. When I found this album, I thought, man, now I've FOUND IT!! It became obvious later that this wasn't just another production album thrown together at the behest of some record company because someone had to do X recordings in X years. The liner notes show, as does the quality of the music that these were Doc Watson's personal treasures. I wore out the record so now I have to buy the cd. You can see a complete list of all Doc Watson discography, or go back to the Doc Watson tabs