Original Folkways Recordings: 1960-1962

Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley

Smithsonian Folkways

A double CD, 48 track collection that includes 20 previously unreleased tracks.

Tracks

• Crawdad Song (Traditional)
• Sitting on Top of the World (Chatmon / Vinson)
• Lee Highway Blues (Traditional)
• Free Little Bird (Traditional)
• The Cuckoo (Traditional)
• Rising Sun Blues (Traditional)
• Looking T'ward Heaven (Presley)
• Rambling Hobo (Traditional)
• Rambling Hobo (Traditional)
• Shady Grove (Traditional)
• Cumberland Gap (Traditional)
• Tough Luck (Traditional)
• Humpbacked Mule (Traditional)
• My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (Ashley / Carter)
• Way Downtown (Traditional)
• Banks of the Ohio (Traditional)
• Little Sadie (Traditional)
• Carroll County Blues (Traditional)
• Cluck Old Hen (Traditional)
• Chilly Winds (Lonesome Road Blues) (Traditional)
• Sweet Heaven When I Die (Traditional)
• Fire on the Mountain (Traditional)
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Traditional)
• Daniel Prayed (Speer)
• Amazing Grace (Newton)
• Sally Ann (Traditional)
• Richmond Blues (Ashley)
• Old Ruben (Traditional)
• Willie Moore (Traditional)
• Walking Boss (Traditional)
• Shout Lulu (Traditional)
• Skillet Good and Greasy (Traditional)
• Pretty Little Pink (Traditional)
• Run, Jimmie, Run (Traditional)
• Hicks' Farewell (Traditional)
• The Old Man at the Mill (Traditional)
• A Short Life of Trouble (Traditional)
• Brown's Dream (Traditional)
• Footprints in the Snow (Traditional)
• I'm Going Back to Jericho (Traditional)
• Peg and Awl (Traditional)
• Maggie Walker Blues (Traditional)
• God's Gonna Ease My Troublin' Mind (Traditional)
• I Saw a Man at the Close of Day (Grayson / Whitter)
• Handsome Molly (Traditional)
• John Henry (Traditional)
• Honey Babe Blues (Traditional)
• Wayfaring Pilgrim (Traditional)

• Doc Watson - guitar, banjo, harmonica, vocals
• Clarence Ashley - banjo, vocals
• Gaither Carlton - banjo, fiddle
• Clint Howard - guitar, vocals
• Fred Price - fiddle, vocals
• Jack Burchett - banjo, vocals
• Jack Johnson - banjo
• Doc Walsh - banjo, vocals
• Garley Foster - harmonica, guitar, vocals
• Tommy Moore - washboard
• Jean Ritchie - vocals
• Ralph Rinzler - guitar

• Executive producer - Ralph Rinzler
• Compiler - Ralph Rinzler, Jeff Place, Matt Walters
• Liner Notes - Ralph Rinzler
• Production supervision - Anthony Seeger, Matt Walters
• Recording - Ralph Rinzler, Eugene Earle
• Recording assistance - Ed Kahn, Danny and Mike Seeger, Peter Siegel, Richard Rinzler
• Archival assistance - Jeff Place
• Reference assistance - Joe Hickerson and Gerry Parsons
• Editorial assistance - Ed O'Reilly, Leslie Spitz-Edson
• Cover photo - Eugene Earle
• Design - Carol Hardy
• Mastered - Alan Yoshida, Hollywood, CA

Some of the tracks on this collection were originally released on;

• Old Time Music At Clarence Ashley's, Vol. 1, Various Artists, 1962
• Old Time Music At Clarence Ashley's, Vol. 2, Various Artists, 1962