Doc & Merle Watson - Home Sweet Home (1998) [320]
Release Date: September 15, 1998
Duration: 41:14
Genre: Folk, Country
Styles: Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk
Recording Date: December, 1967 - 1998
Recording Location: Deep Gap, NC, Nashville, TN
Track Listing:
1. John Henry - 3:10
2. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band - 3:37
3. Lonesome Banjo - 1:42
4. Listening to the Rain - 3:13
5. Russian Grass - 2:13
6. Worried Blues - 2:50
7. Train That Carried My Girl from Town - 3:12
8. Old Joe Clark - 2:33
9. Down the Road - 2:29
10. Big Spike Hammer - 3:12
11. Reuben's Train - 3:32
12. Little Maggie - 2:53
13. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home - 3:51
14. Home Sweet Home - 2:47
Covers: Front
Preformers:
Cliff Carlisle / Mel Foree
Arnold Watson
Don Devaney
Lester Flatt / Earl Scruggs
M. Christian
A.P Carter
Review:
Originally recorded in 1967 with additional material recorded in 1998, this is a tribute to the vast talent of Merle Watson, whose life was cut short in a tractor accident in 1985.
These recordings are even more impressive when it is understood that they were made just five months after Watson started playing banjo.
Expert even then, he was a delight to his father, Doc.
With this release, Merle Watson's place in traditional American music is defined and assured.
Along with Marty Stuart, Sam Bush, Alan O'Bryant and T. Michael Coleman, Doc Watson gives these early recordings of his son's mastery a new life.
Songs like "Girl in the Blue Velvet Band," "Old Joe Clark" and "Little Maggie" carry the listener away.
Ending with "I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home" and "Home Sweet Home" gives this release a poignant twist.
Highly recommended.
