The Vanguard Years (Doc Watson album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Vanguard Years
Type = compilation album
Artist = Doc Watson


Released = November 14, 1995
Recorded = 1963-1968
Genre = Folk, blues
Length = 172:34
Label = Vanguard
Producer = Mary Katherine Aldin (compilation)
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfpxq9hldde link]
Chronology = Doc Watson
Last album = "Docabilly"
(1995)
This album = "The Vanguard Years"
(1995)
Next album = "Watson Country"
(1996)

"The Vanguard Years" is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artist Doc Watson, released in 1995.

This four-CD collection contains 64 tracks from Watson's years on the Vanguard label recorded from 1963 to 1968. There are 16 previously un-released performances included.

Track listing

# "Rambling Hobo" (Traditional) – 0:57
# "Train That Carried My Girl From Town" (Traditional) – 2:03
# "The Coo Coo Bird" (Traditional) – 2:46
# "Reuben's Train" (Traditional) – 2:29
# "Hicks' Farewell" (Traditional) – 3:34
# "Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 1:26
# "Beaumont Rag" (Traditional) – 1:44
# "Farewell Blues" (Traditional) – 1:48
# "Footprints in the Snow" (Traditional) – 2:03
# "Intoxicated Rat" (Dorsey Dixon, Mainer) – 2:33
# "Talk About Suffering" (Traditional) – 2:50
# "Omie Wise" (Traditional) – 4:29
# "Country Blues" (Dock Boggs) – 3:33
# "Black Mountain Rag " (Traditional) – 1:32
# "Doc's Guitar" (Doc Watson) – 1:18
# "Deep River Blues" (Traditional) – 3:09
# "Muskrat" (Traditional) – 2:54
# "Dream of the Miner's Child" (Andrew Jenkins) – 2:47
# "Rising Sun Blues" (Traditional) – 4:17
# "Otto Wood the Bandit" (Walter "The Kid" Smith) – 3:17
# "Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:01
# "Windy and Warm" (John D. Loudermilk) – 2:15
# "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood) – 3:38
# "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 2:45
# "Down in the Valley to Pray" (Traditional) – 2:02
# "Dill Pickle Rag" (Traditional) – 1:25
# "The F.F. V." (Watson, Watson) – 4:03
# "Childhood Play" (Alfred Karnes) – 1:59
# "Sreamline Cannonball" – 2:27
# "Old Camp Meeting Time " (Traditional) – 2:50
# "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"
# "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band"
# "New River Train" (Traditional) – 3:27
# "Rank Stranger" – 3:20
# "Corrina, Corrina" (Traditional) – 3:09
# "What Does the Deep Sea Say" (Traditional) – 2:53
# "There's More Pretty Girls Than One" (Traditional) – 2:29
# "Way Downtown" – 3:14
# "Brown's Ferry Blues" – 2:55
# "Spike Driver Blues" (Traditional) – 2:23
# "Roll on Buddy" (Traditional) – 2:41
# "I Am a Pilgrim" (Traditional) – 2:29
# "Wabash Cannonball" (Traditional) – 2:11
# "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" (Flatt) – 2:16
# "The Lawson Family Murder" (Smith) – 3:04
# "The Cuckoo" (Traditional) – 2:53
# "Alabama Bound" (Traditional) – 2:39
#:Previously un-released tracks:
# "Bye Bye Bluebells" (Traditional) – 2:49
# "Kinfolks in Carolina" (Traditional) – 2:48
# "San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills) – 3:31
# "Blow Your Whistle Freight Train" – 2:47
# "Cannonball Rag" – 3:05
# "I Am a Pilgrim" – 2:32
# "Arrangement Blues" (Traditional) – 2:09
# "I Got a Pig at Home in the Pen" – 2:53
# "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" (Elsie McWilliams, Jimmie Rodgers) – 4:09
# "Deep River Blues" (Traditional) – 2:06
# "The Banks of the Ohio" (Traditional) – 2:33
# "A-Roving on a Winter's Night" (Traditional) – 2:58
# "Southbound" (Traditional) – 4:01
# "Memphis Blues" – 3:47
# "Salt Creek/Bill Cheatham" (Traditional) – 2:54
# "Brown's Ferry Blues" (Traditional) – 3:09
# "Windy and Warm" (Loudermilk) – 2:38

Personnel

*Doc Watson – guitar, harmonica, vocals
*Merle Watson – guitar, banjo
*Clarence Ashley – banjo, vocals
*Gaither Carlton – fiddle
*Clint Howard – guitar, vocals
*Fred Price – fiddle
*Arnold Watson – banjo, vocals
*Clarence White – guitar

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/compil.html#vanguard Doc Watson discography.]