Doc Watson – Doc Watson (LP Vinyl)
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Doc Watson came to New York's folk revival scene as something of a revelation, a blind guitarist from Deep Gap, North Carolina whose technique left peers like Clarence White and a young Jerry Garcia reconsidering everything they thought they knew about acoustic guitar. Recorded for Vanguard at the height of the Greenwich Village folk boom, this debut introduced a man who had been playing mountain music his whole life, not as a revival, but as a living tradition.
The 1964 solo debut record from Doc Watson didn't just define guitar flat-picking for his generation and those to come (check "Black Mountain Rag"), but it also straddled American music traditions with amazing aplomb. Just try classifying this record: is it folk? Country? Bluegrass? The truth is, it's all of those things, and more. It's hilarious ("Intoxicated Rat"), mournful ("Little Omie Wise"), defiantly joyful ("Sittin' on Top of the World"), starkly existential ("Country Blues"), and even goofy ("Born About Six Thousand Years Ago"). But most of all, it's Doc Watson, the first and perhaps most lasting salvo from an American music giant. And, as such, it's one of the fundamental albums of American roots music, and a profound and deeply enjoyable listening experience. We at Real Gone Music are proud to bring you this all-time classic in it's original mono, pressed in deep river blue vinyl at Gotta Groove Records.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 848064021308
Label: Real Gone Music
Release Date: 7.3.26
Format: LP Vinyl