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Tradition (Doc Watson Album)
''Tradition'' (subtitled ''The Doc Watson Family'') is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Family. It was recorded in 1964 - 1965 and not released until 1977. Track listing All songs Traditional. # "Georgie" – 0:54 # "Fish in the Mill Pond" – 1:39 # "Julie Jenkins" – 0:42 # "Hushabye" – 0:16 # "Baa Nanny Black Sheep" – 0:56 # "Sheepy and the Goat" – 0:23 # "I Heard My Mother Weeping" – 3:02 # "Reuben's Train" – 2:40 # "Biscuits" – 3:14 # "Tucker's Barn" – 2:23 # "Give the Fiddler a Dram" – 1:52 # "And Am I Born to Die?" – 3:29 # "Marthy, Won't You Have Some Good Old Cider?" – 2:06 # "A-Roving on a Winter's Night" – 1:51 # "Arnold's Tune" – 0:46 # "Pretty Saro" – 2:12 # "Early, Early in the Spring" – 2:04 # "Little Maggie" – 2:36 # "Bill Banks" – 2:30 # "Rambling Hobo" – 1:02 # "One Morning in May" – 1:58 # "The Faithful Soldier" – 3:29 # "Omie Wise Omie Wise or Naomi Wise (1789–1808) was an American m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's fingerstyle and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm. Biography Early life Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina. According to Watson on his three-CD biographical recording ''Legacy'', he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname. A fan in the crowd shouted "Call him Doc!", presumably in reference to the literary character Sherlock Holmes's companion, Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and Béla Fleck, in addition to re-releases of seminal albums by artists such as the Carter Family, Jelly Roll Morton, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie. "Championing and preserving the music of artists whose music falls outside of the mainstream," Rounder releases have won 54 Grammy Awards representing diverse genres, from bluegrass, folk, reggae, and gospel to pop, rock, Americana, polka and world music. Acquired by Concord in 2010, Rounder is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Beginnings Rounder was founded by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton Levy. Nowlin and Irwin first met in 1962 as incoming freshman at Tufts University in the Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Rinzler
Ralph Rinzler (July 20, 1934 – July 2, 1994) was an American mandolin player, folksinger, and the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian."Ralph C. Rinzler, 59, Smithsonian Official And Folk-Life Expert" ''The New York Times'', July 8, 1994 This festival was from the beginning and continues to be a major event for musicians, artistans, and craftsman from a broad variety of American culture, including African American, Native American, Appalachian, Southern, Western and other groups in the United States. Biography Ralph Rinzler grew up in |
Lonesome Road (Doc Watson Album)
''Lonesome Road'' is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1977. ''Lonesome Road'' is out-of-print and was re-issued on CD in 1998 by BGO Records. It was also released in 2002 by Southern Music packaged with ''Look Away!''. Allmusic entry for Lonesome Road/Look Away!/ref> Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jim Worbois wrote of the album "Doc does the country blues as well as anything else he does and this record is filled with some fine performances." Track listing # " I Recall a Gypsy Woman" (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds) – 3:49 # "Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 2:58 # "Mean Mama Blues" (Ernest Tubb) – 2:51 # "Look up Look Down That Lonesome Road" (Traditional) – 4:02 # "My Creole Belle" (J. Bodewalt Lampe) – 2:42 # "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore) – 2:18 # "Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Traditional) – 2:45 # "Stone Wall (Around My Heart)" (Pat Twitty) – 3:26 # "I Ain't Going Honky-Tonkn' Anymore" (Ernest Tubb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look Away!
''Look Away!'' is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1978. ''Look Away!'' is out-of-print and was re-issued on CD in 2002 by Southern Music packaged with '' Lonesome Road!''. Allmusic entry for Lonesome Road/Look Away!/ref> Reception Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Allan wrote of the album "No album by this wonderful picker and his equally adept son could be without merit, although the material is not as consistently strong as they deserve." Track listing # "Florida Blues" (Traditional) – 1:45 # "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 2:47 # "My Love Come Rolling Down" (Eric Von Schmidt) – 3:29 # "Gypsy Davie" (Traditional) – 3:25 # "'Rangement Blues" (Traditional) – 2:51 # " You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (Jenny Lou Carson) – 2:06 # "Blues in My Mind" ( Fred Rose) – 2:27 # "It's a Crazy World" (Mac McAnally) – 2:41 # " Under the Double Eagle" (Traditional) – 2:26 # "God Holds the Future" (Traditional) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Recording
Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording. Sound recording is the transcription of invisible vibrations in air onto a storage medium such as a phonograph disc. The process is reversed in sound reproduction, and the variations stored on the medium are transformed back into sound waves. Acoustic analog recording is achieved by a microphone diaphragm that senses changes in atmospheric pressure caused by acoustic sound waves and records them as a mechanical representation of the sound waves on a medium such as a phonograph record (in which a stylus cuts grooves on a record). In magnetic tape recording, the sound waves vibrate the microphone diaphragm and are converted into a varying electric current, which is then converted to a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omie Wise
Omie Wise or Naomi Wise (1789–1808) was an American murder victim, who is remembered by a popular murder ballad about her death. Song Omie Wise's death became the subject of a traditional American ballad. (Roud 447) One version opens: In accordance with the broadside ballad tradition, lyrics to the original version of the song were written shortly after the murder itself; at least one 19th-century version of the ballad text exists.Wikisource: A true account of Nayomy Wise The first recorded version of the song was performed by G. B. Grayson, who recorded the song in 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first person to record the song under the title "Naomi Wise" was Vernon Dalhart, who did so on November 24, 1925. The song is thematically related to other American murder ballads such as "Banks of the Ohio" and "The Knoxville Girl". Each of these songs relates the tale of a woman murdered by her lover, who then disposed of her body in a river. The song has been performed by Doc Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Watson
Eddy Merle Watson (February 8, 1949 – October 23, 1985) was an American folk and bluegrass guitarist. He was best known for his performances with his father, Doc Watson. Merle played and recorded albums together with his father from age 15 until his death in a tractor accident 21 years later. Merle was widely recognized as one of the best flat-picking and slide guitarists of his generation. MerleFest, one of the world's largest and most-prestigious folk music festivals, is held annually in Wilkesboro, NC and is named in his honor. Merle and his father released a version of " Bottle of Wine" that reached No. 71 on the U.S. country chart. Death Watson died in a farm accident in 1985 at age 36. He was driving a tractor to a nearby house when it slipped down an embankment and pinned him beneath it. Discography All albums were in collaboration with his father, Doc Watson. *1965 – '' Doc Watson & Son'' *1967 – ''Ballads from Deep Gap'' *1971 – ''Doc Watson on Stage'' *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
