Doc Watson

A conversation with the mountain guitar legend Doc Watson who recently celebrated his 75th birthday.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Freight Train Boogie Doc Watson
Elementary Doctor Watson!, United Artists

Casey Jones Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers

Reefer Man Baron Lee and the Blue Rhythm Band
Stars of the Apollo, Columbia Legacy

Light Up and Listen Radio Show Excerpt

Smoke Rings k. d. lang
Drag, Warner Brothers

Instrumental: Hoopah Rag Bob Wills
Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA

So Let's Rock Bob Wills
Country Music Hall of Fame Series, MCA

The Blues Had A Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll Muddy Waters
Mojo Workin' - Blues for the Next
Generation, Columbia/Legacy

Sweet Little Rock and Roller Chuck Berry
His Best Volume 2, Chess/MCA

Rock & Roll Velvet Underground
Loaded, Polydor

Little Maggie Grayson & Whitter
Old-Time Southern Dance Music - Ballads and Songs, Old Timey

Avalon Blues Mississippi John Hurt
Avalon Blues 1963, Rounder

Hummingbird Victoria Williams
Musings of a Creek Dipper, Atlantic

Instrumental: Doc & Dawg Doc Watson & David Grisman
Doc & Dawg, Acoustic Disc

INTERVIEW: Doc Watson

Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms Doc Watson
Ballads from Deep Gap, Vanguard

Rain Crow Bill Doc Watson
Home Again, Vanguard

John Henry/Worried Blues Doc Watson
Doc & Merle Watson's Guitar Album, Flying Fish

Make Me a Pallet on your Floor Doc Watson
Live Labor Day American Routes program from Wolftrap

Good Times Sam Cooke
The Man and his Music, RCA

Hora Decubitus Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Impulse

HOUR TWO

Butler's Boogie Henry Butler
Blues After Sunset, Black Top

Big Ten Inch Record Moose Jackson w/Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra
Risqué Rhythm - Nasty ‘50s R & B, Rhino

Phonograph Blues Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings, Columbia

I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin Songs Today Moe Bandy
The Best of Bandy Volume, Columbia

Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers, Virgin

Chan Chan Buena Vista Social Club w/Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club, World Circuit/Nonesuch

Boppin' the Rock Armando Almendarez & Conjunto Mexico
San Antonio's Conjunto's in the 1950s, Arhoolie

Instrumental: Quand la nuit coule du ciel The Bluerunners
To The Country, Rounder

Helpless Neil Young
Decade, Reprise

Cutting Ferns/Alex Dan MacIsacc's/Brenda Stubbert's/Mutt's Favorite/Bernadette's/Lady Gordon of Gordonstown Jerry Holland
The Fiddlesticks Collection, Green Linnet

Adieu Rosa Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Friday At Last, Swallow

Instrumental: Bubber (If Only) Olu Dara
In The World - From Natchez to New York, Atlantic

Jumpin' Tonight Joe Turner
The Complete Aladdin and Imperial Recordings, EMI

The Jeep Is Jumpin' Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins, Impulse

Indians Jumpin' on Fire Mahogony Brass
Kickin' Some Brass, Shanachie

Tramp Otis and Carla
Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968, Atlantic

My Home Has Wheels Southern Culture on the Skids
Ditch Digger, Safe House

This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land, Smithsonian Folkways

End Bed: Thunder Road/Sugarfoot Rag Doc Watson
Docabilly, Sugar Hill

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