Doc and Merle Watson : Stormy Weather [ purchase ] Weather in songs is often a metaphor for emotional turbulence. Stormy Weather is the classic example of that. Comparing raindrops to tears may be a cliché now, but it wasn't so much when this was first written. Doc and Merle Watson do a great job here of finding the emotional truth of the song with their performance. Merle Watson takes a solo on slide guitar, Doc on regular guitar, and Sam Bush on fiddle. These solos are all brief but sweet. [...]
Bloody hell. Holidays are awesome things, but getting back from them to the terrifying number of neglected tasks which pile up in your absence is quite intimidating. So far the best I have managed has been to stare in a startled way at my desk and adopt a facial expression which looks dangerously like Ctrl-Alt-Delete is called for. I think I might wait for lunch and just go an lie in the sun in Inverleith Park instead, and accept the meltdown rather than fight it. Anyhow, that clip at the top is from the BBC's SXSW [...]
...like I'm Sittin on Top of the World. Here's Doc and Merle Watson Here's a Western Swing version featuring Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. I'm running with this groove now, friends...here's the Asylum Street Spankers. Oh yes. Last one now...Les Paul and Mary Ford.
Suicide : Frankie Teardrop [ purchase ] Doc & Merle Watson : The Lawson Family Murder [ purchase ] Two songs which are worlds apart musically, but which deal with the same subject : how men suddenly go amok and kill their whole family before comiting suicide. The first song by Suicide is probably one of the most frightening pieces of music ever made with its cold synthetizers and Alan Vega's inhuman screams. [...]
Doc & Merle Watson - 'Rangement Blues I saw Doc flatpick in NYC last year. At 85, the man hasn't even lost a stroke on his perfectly clean runs. Just a damn genius guitar player; he's to guitar what Scruggs was to banjo, invented a style that became the standard. His work in the 70s holds up really well, especially featuring his son, Merle Watson (who tragically passed in a tractor accident in 1985)( Merlefest would begin three years later). All [...]
I must be out of my mind. I had this mad idea at the beginning of the week: I would go through all of my music samplers from The Oxford American magazine, and post every train song I found in one megapost at week's end. But thinking of it wasn't enough; no, I had to actually go through with it. I began collecting The Oxford American's annual music issues in 1999, with their third one. I was amazed at the quality, both of the writing, and of the music presented. To read more about this annual tradition [...]
See also: Vol. 1: Songs of the South Vol. 2: The Songs of Elizabeth Cotten Elizabeth Cotten and Arthel "Doc" Watson share more than just a connection to the state of North Carolina. Both were culturally disadvantaged -- Cotten due to her skin color, and Doc due to a lifelong blindness. Each started performing in childhood, but became truly famous in [...]
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