Red Rocking Chair is an album by Doc and Merle Watson, released in 1981 on the Flying Fish label.

Red Rocking Chair
Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedDec 1980–Jan 1981, Crimson Sound, Santa Monica, CA
GenreFolk, blues
Length28:46
LabelFlying Fish
ProducerMitch Greenhill
Doc Watson chronology
Reflections
(1980)
Red Rocking Chair
(1981)
Doc and Merle Watson's Guitar Album
(1983)

Reception

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Allmusic      [1]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steve Leggett wrote of the album "Watson brings his own considerable guitar and banjo skills to bear on this selection of folk and blues tunes. Doc's voice is as easy and as comfortable as an old fishing hat ... further proof of how Watson makes everything he touches fit into his personal and seamless tour of American folk music."[1]

Track listing

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  1. "Sadie" (T. Michael Coleman, Byron Hill) – 2:23
  2. "Fisher's Hornpipe/Devil's Dream" (Traditional) – 1:38
  3. "Along the Road" (Dan Fogelberg) – 2:42
  4. "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams) – 2:39
  5. "Below Freezing" (Coleman) – 2:12
  6. "California Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:13
  7. "John Hurt" (Tom Paxton, Doc Watson) – 2:22
  8. "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 2:22
  9. "Any Old Time" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:21
  10. "Red Rocking Chair" (Traditional, Watson) – 1:57
  11. "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 2:42
  12. "Down Yonder" (Traditional) – 2:15

Personnel

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Production notes

  • Mitch Greenhill – producer
  • Hank Cicalo – engineer
  • Milt Calise – assistant engineer
  • Jon Hartley Fox – liner notes

References

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  1. ^ a b Leggett, Steve. "Red Rocking Chair > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
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