#doc-watson — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #doc-watson, aggregated by home.social.
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Was listening to the "Mellow Mix" of RadioParadise.com, as is my wont, and they just played S&G's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which, even though it's sentimental and frightfully overwrought and tinny-sounding, always reminds me of a particularly sweet personal moment in 1970 or so,
Then, as is *their* wont, RadioParadise.com played Doc & Merle doing "Windy and Warm," which was rounded it off perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2Dn9a8sQ4
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"Will The Circle Be Unbroken" released in November 1972.
#NittyGrittyDirtBand #WillTheCircleBeUnbroken #VintageVinyl #RoyAcuff #MotherMaybelleCarter #DocWatson #EarlScruggs #RandyScruggs #MerleTravis #PeteOswaldKirby #NormanBlake #JimmyMartin -
I was watching old Dylan videos on YouTube and in this version of "North Country Blues" form the Newport Folk Fest (1963) you can see Doc Watson sitting right behind him! Doc's in the second shot at 0:53.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6_Q5IjU3k&list=PLa7RDLj_EbXca7hzfp4mPcJUboxquufTL&index=1
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Sunday listening: Doc & Merle Watson - Live At Tipitina's. First time in a long time I listened through a record and then immediately flipped it back over and listened to it again. Some mighty fine pickin'!
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https://youtu.be/OryAAdwP6Hc?si=WEoRwVkpB_l2htxM
La meva #CançóDelDia per al dijous 2 d'octubre és aquesta del #DocWatson #DeepGap #RIP #Folk #Country #Bluegrass 🌵!
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Whoa! One of #DocWatson 's earliest Martin D-28's is available. Only $75K. Not bad for an authentic guitar owned and used by Doc. #BillyStrings should buy it.
https://cartervintage.com/shop/martin-d-28-1946-natural/31ChzzweOSe9iujMc6Hh6VqcnOg
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When I saw this title come up, Doc Watson doing “Nights in White Satin”, I was all “ha ha, yeah I’ll tag that one with genre ‘unusual’ and inflict it on my Mastodon pals!” But then I heard it and… ::sob:: it’s a heartbreaker, actually. That’s what he does to me tho, Doc. Breaks me. (He was also my intro to country music, pretty much! Saw him & Merle live when I was like 12 or 13yo, and was AGOG & mindblown.) #DocWatson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fis4fNl2llY
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As randomly chosen by survey on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 997 on The List, submitted by dwenius. (The survey choices given were “My”, “Empire”, “Of”, and “Dirt”, following the earlier survey with “You”, “Could Have”, “It”, “All”; as the winning selection,”Dirt”, was the last choice and only 2 albums in The List have “dirt” in the title, the survey result was translated as picking the last one.)
Want 2 hours of ol’ timey, finger pickin’ country folk, bluegrass, and gospel classics such as “Keep on the Sunny Side” and “I Saw the Light”? Well, here you are. This double album features a ton of collaborations with people such as Mother Maybelle Carter (i.e., June Carter Cash’s mother), Doc Watson, and Merle Travis. The album was so successful that the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band tried it two more times – Volume II (1989) features the likes of Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, and John Denver, and Volume III (2002) Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and Tom Petty. So, if this is your sort of thing, I think your listening is sorted for a while.
Before you listen, make sure your harmonica or washboard is nearby.
- Songlink: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Discogs: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Note on the image included: As you may notice after clicking on the above links, the image included here is not the front cover of the album, but is instead the back cover. I don’t wish to censor the art of any of the albums on The List, but the front cover has images of the Confederate flag, which of course today is recognized as a hate symbol. Given the time the album was released, the musical content of the album (which, as far as I know, isn’t itself problematic), and the presence of Union flags (as well as a photo of a Union soldier) on the front cover, presumably the point of the cover was not to promote hate symbols in any way. So, since there is no ability to add content warnings or sensitive image filters on the WordPress side to show up with the automatic cross-posting on the Mastodon side, I have chosen instead to provide alternate art, to keep the problematic images out of your timeline.
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/07/03/nitty-gritty-dirt-band-will-the-circle-be-unbroken-1972-us/
#1001OtherAlbums #1970s #bluegrass #country #countryFolk #DocWatson #MaybelleCarter #MerleTravis #NittyGrittyDirtBand
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Billy Strings posted this photo of #DocWatson playing a crazy looking #guitar on his IG account.
Not gonna post the link because I literally just got yelled at for posting links to any Zuckerberg-owned social media site, so here it is.
No source, no info on the guitar, nothing. Here's the Reddit thread where people are asking about it, but no one knows. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bluegrass/comments/1ckzeg9/what_brandmodel_of_guitar_is_doc_playing/
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Double exposure of today’s spin — The Watson Family originally released 1963 #NowListening #folk #Vinyl #Smithsonian #Folkways #DocWatson
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Continuing my trawl through old Doc Watson tapes on YT, and stumbled upon a color vid of Doc & Merle from 1978.
No info on where the tape is from other than "1978" (wild guess: a random TV show, probably in the south)
But there's enough color to see that Doc's hair isn't all white yet, and the thumbnail of Michael Coleman exudes extreme "dirty hippie with good stuff in the van" vibes.
Good times
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Lovely recording of Doc Watson & Tony Rice at Merlefest in '97:
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Bluegrass musician Doc Watson would have turned 100 yesterday. He was born on March 3rd, 1923 in an unincorporated county called Deep Gap, North Carolina, and he was blind from the age of 1. Such a legend, he has to be one of the best things to ever come from Southern culture. Love Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk and the like, but Doc Watson was one of the few truly authentic folk/bluegrass musicians making music in the early 60's.
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Immediately on the heels of “More Pretty Girls Than One” comes #DocWatson bemoaning the amazing incredible fact that the pretty girl he had has up and left him in “I Couldn’t Believe It Was True.” Unfortunately the following track to this is “Summertime” and not a ditty titled “Go Figure”…
#music #countrymusic #Appalachia #Bluegrass #FolkMusic #blues #gospel