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Table of Contents:

• Disc 1, From the tradition. The precious jewel
• Pharaoh / (with the Jack Williams Band)
• I saw a man at the close of day
• Rambling hobo
• Darling Corey
• Your long journey
• The cuckoo bird
• Everyday dirt
• Doc's guitar / (tickling the strings)/Black mountain rag
• Storms are on the ocean / (with Jean Ritchie)
• What would you give in exchange for your soul / (with Bill Monroe)
• And am I born to die
• My little woman, you're so sweet
• Little orphan girl
• Wanted man
• Sitting on top of the world
• Intoxicated rat
• Country blues
• Talk about suffering
• Little Omie Wise

• St. James Hospital
• Tom Dooley
• Beaumont rag ; Muskrat ; Weary blues ; We shall all be reunited / (with Merle Watson)
• Disc 2, On the main stage. Southbound
• Blue railroad train
• Walk on boy
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Alberta
• That was the last thing on my mind
• Windy and warm
• Riddle song
• Georgie
• Rain crow Bill
• Winter's night
• Matty Groves
• Dill pickle rag
• Willie Morre / (with Merle Watson)
• Peach picking time in Georgia
• Memphis blues
• The train that carried my girl from town
• Lost John ; Brown's ferry blues ; The clouds are gwine to roll away ; Life gits teejus don't it ; Banks of the Ohio ; Spikedriver blues ; Deep river blues / (with Merle Watson)
• Disc 3, In the big time. Nothing to it / (with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs)
• Streamlined cannonball / (with Earl Scruggs)
• Tennessee stud ; Way downtown / (with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
• Freight train boogie
• Summertime
• Peace in the valley
• That's all ; Match box blues ; Bottle of wine ; Corrina, Corrina ; Doc's rag ; Poor boy blues / (with Merle Watson)
• Wake up, little Maggie
• Peartree
• Shady Grove
• Miss the Mississippi and you
• Steel guitar rag
• Cypress Grove blues
• Wayfaring stranger ; Look up, look down that lonesome road ; Minglewood blues ; Don't think twice, it's alright ; Let the cocaine be / (with Merle Watson)
• Don't monkey 'round my widder / (with Chet Atkins)
• Disc 4, Of the ages. Red rocking chair ; John Hurt ; Below freezing ; Along the road / (with Merle Waton & T. Michael Coleman)
• Liza/Lady be good ; Going to Chicago blues ; Guitar polka ; Gonna lay down my old guitar ; Bright sunny south ; Twin sisters / (with Merle Watson)
• How long blues / (with Merle Watson & James Cotton)
• Freight train blues / (with Merle Watson)
• Riding that midnight train
• What does the deep sea say?
• Tough luck man
• George Gudger's overalls
• Risin' sun blues
• Salt Creek / (with Norman Blake and Tony Rice)
• You must come in at the door
• Your lone journey
• Grandfather's clock
• Bird dog
• Turn the lamps down low / (with Richard Watson)
• Nights in white satin / (with Frosty Morn)
• Down in the river to pray / (with Alison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs)
• Amazing grace.

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Author/Creator:

Watson, Doc , composer, performer

Contributors:

Olson, Ted , writer of supplementary textual content

Ritchie, Jean , performer

Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996 , performer

Watson, Merle , performer

Flatt, Lester , performer

Scruggs, Earl , performer

Atkins, Chet , performer

Coleman, T. Michael , performer

Cotton, James, 1935-2017 , performer

Blake, Norman, 1938- , performer

Rice, Tony, 1951-2020 , performer

Watson, Richard, 1966- , performer

Krauss, Alison, 1971- , performer

Skaggs, Ricky , performer

Jack Williams Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Frosty Morn (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Life's work: a retrospective [by Watson, D.]

Subjects:

Bluegrass music

Country music

Folk music

United States

Genres:

Bluegrass music

Country music

Folk music

Performers:

Doc Watson, vocals, guitar, harmonica, banjo ; with various musicians.

Production Credits:

Produced for release by Scott Billington, Ted Olson and Mason Williams.

Performance Medium:

Male voice

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
Recorded 1941-2003.
Chiefly previously released material.
Program notes by Ted Olson in bound book (86 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm).

Physical Description:

4 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 163,234- 163,237

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 888072084834
Publisher Number, Craft Recordings: CR00171

OCLC Numbers:

1280067501