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Red Rocking Chair
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Red Rocking Chair Track listing
1. "Sadie" (T. Michael Coleman, Bob Hilliard) – 2:23
2. "Fisher’s Hornpipe/Devil’s Dream" (Traditional) –
1:38
3. "Along the Road" (Dan Fogelberg) – 2:42
4. "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams)
– 2:39
5. "Below Freezing" (Coleman) – 2:12
6. "California Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:13
7. "John Hurt" (Tom Paxton, Doc Watson) – 2:22
8. "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 2:22
9. "Any Old Time" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:21
10. "Red Rocking Chair" (Traditional, Watson) – 1:57
Watson,
Studio album by Doc Watson, Merle Watson
11. "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 2:42
Released 1981 12. "Down Yonder" (Traditional) – 2:15
Recorded Dec 1980-Jan 1981, Crimson Sound, Santa
Monica, CA Personnel
Genre Folk, blues • Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, harmonica
Length 28:46 • Merle Watson – guitar, dobro, banjo
• T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
Label Flying Fish
• Herb Pedersen – harmony vocals
Producer Mitch Greenhill • Ron Tutt – drums
• Gene Estes – percussion
Doc Watson chronology
• Hank "Bones" Kahn – bones
Reflections Red Rocking Doc and Merle Watson’s Guitar • Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
(1980) Chair Album • Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
(1981) (1983) • Byron Berline – fiddle
• Tom Scott – clarinet
Red Rocking Chair is an album by Doc and Merle Watson, Production notes
released in 1981 on the Flying Fish label. • Mitch Greenhill – producer
• Hank Cicalo – engineer
• Milt Calise – assistant engineer
Reception • Jon Hartley Fox – liner notes
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steve Leggett wrote of
the album "Watson brings his own considerable guitar
and banjo skills to bear on this selection of folk and blues
References
tunes. Doc’s voice is as easy and as comfortable as an old [1] ^ Leggett, Steve. "Red Rocking Chair > Review".
fishing hat... further proof of how Watson makes every- Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/
thing he touches fit into his personal and seamless tour r94532. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
of American folk music."[1]
External links
• Doc Watson discography
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