Track Listing

1. Storms Are on the Ocean
2. Go Dig My Grave
3. Spikedriver Blues
4. Over the River Charlie
5. Soldier's Joy
6. Swing and Turn Jubilee
7. East Virginia
8. Hiram Hubbard
9. Where Are You Going
10. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
11. Pretty Polly
12. Willie Moore
13. What'll I Do With the Baby-O?
14. Pretty Saro
15. Wabash Cannonball
16. House Carpenter
17. Amazing Grace

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138929 in Music
• Released on: 1992-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
It could only have happened in rela life, this mixing of two Appalachian family musical traditions on the stage of a hip Greenwich Village nightclub before an audience of fad-following New Yorkers. Nothing that imporbable is allowed in fiction. The idea could only have come from folklorist Ralph Rinzler. Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie had never heard of each other until Rinzler introduced them. Doc was age 38, and Jean was 40, and they had been reared 200 miles apart, Jean in coal-mining area and Doc in the tobacco and truck-farming Blue Ridge. Both were heirs to rich family and community traditions that were remarkably similar. But they had learned to use these traditions in very different ways and from differe aesthetic viewpoints. Jean was well launched as a professional in the incipient folksong revival, what has been called "the greatfolk scare of the sixties." It was a world Doc Watson was about to enter.

Customer Reviews

Amazing
A must-have for fans of folk or American traditional music. With the glut of neo- or pseudo-Appalachian music out there lately (I guess since O Brother! Where Art Thou? came out) we need more releases like this of the genuine article. Doc Watson is still very popular but Jean Ritchie is not as well-known outside of dulcimer and folk circles as she ought to be.