Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!

Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal! is the title of a recording by American folk music artist Doc Watson, released in 1968.

With the folk music boom on the wane, Watson traveled to Nashville. The result is a more polished sound with members of The Nashville A-Team backing him up.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "The playing is more impressive than the arrangements, which have that trademark Nashville smoothness..."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:12
2. "Streamlined Cannonball" (Roy Acuff) – 2:28
3. "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:59
4. "June Apple" (Traditional) – 2:12
5. "I'm Thinking of My Blue Eyes" (A. P. Carter) – 3:28
6. "Memphis Blues" (W. C. Handy, George Norton) – 2:45
7. "The Train That Carried My Girl from Town" (Traditional) – 3:47
8. "Old Camp Meeting Time" (Traditional) – 2:50
9. "Bye Bye Blues" (Dave Bennett, Chauncy Gray, Fred Hamm, Bert Lown) – 2:44
10. "Shady Grove" (Traditional) – 2:59
11. "Blackberry Rag" (Watson) – 2:40
12. "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band" (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree) – 3:24
13. "Rainbow" (Traditional) – 2:34
14. "Step It Up and Go" (Blind Boy Fuller) – 1:55

Personnel

• Doc Watson – guitar, banjo, vocals
• Merle Watson – guitar
• Victor Battista – bass
• Floyd Cramer – piano
• Buddy Harman – drums
• Shot Jackson – dobro
• Grady Martin – guitar, Spanish dobro
• Buddy Spicher – fiddle
• Don Stover – banjo

Production notes

• Jack Lothrop – producer
• Jules Halfant – art direction
• Joel Brodsky – photography

References