Doc Watson and David Holt with Richard Watson
March 6, 2010
Cumming Playhouse, Cumming, GA 

Very good sound (with sample) - your comments on quality are encouraged and appreciated.


SOURCE: Sony MZ-R700 (mini disc) with Sony ECM-DS70 mic > Total Recorder (wav) > 
CDWav > FLAC Frontend > DIME > you

 
Greetings all and hope you will enjoy this sweet, poignant performance on a clear,country
Saturday night in Cumming, GA (about 45 miles north of Atlanta). The Cumming Playhouse is 
a perfect venue for this Doc peformance, a beautiful 184-seat perfomance hall housed in an 
historic 1923 former schoolhouse (www.playhousecumming.com).

I'm pleased to report that just a few days after his 87th birthday, Doc Watson still tells a 
great tale and can still flat-pick with passion and . Now, you'll hear Doc have himself a 
few "senior moments" here and there, and a few songs turned into snippets as Doc start a 
request only to realize that he doesn't remember all the words. However, this sold-out, appreciative
crowd just ate it all up, and everyone felt honored to be seeing this cherished music legend.


As for the sound quality, I would say that this is an honest, "old-timey" audience recording - 
not very rich, but very listenable all the same. I accidently made a *rookie* mini-disc mistake by 
mounting my microphone too close to the body of the recording unit,and you will hear several of the 
trademark mini-disc"whirling" cycles as the microphone picks up the data as it is being written to 
the disc. It's mostly noticeable during the between-song chatter, but it's there. I don't believe 
that it distracts too much from an otherwise decent recording.


Feel free to remaster and repost to other sites if you want, but please, do not sell !

Enjoy !


Set I (approx 47 mins)

01 intro and tuning
02 Way Downtown
03 Shady Grove
04 story about Jack Williams Band and square dancing
05 Whiskey Before Breakfast
06 Anytime (David Holt playing jazz drumsticks on the face of his banjo)
07 Doc talks about his first record player > The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane
08 Deep River Blues
09 Ready For The Times To Get Better
10 Doc talks about learning the harmonica from his dad
11 David talks about learning how to play the "bones" > Fisher's Hornpipe
12 docs intro > Rainbow Bill (David Holt plays "handbone rythmn) ** a few digi-skips **
13 Doc quits smoking story
14 Sittin' On Top Of The World
15 That Train That Carried My Girl From Town

* entire first set with David Holt


Set II (approx 55 mins)

01 The Girl Of My Dreams
02 For The Good Times
03 What A Friend We Have In Jesus
04 Doc's testimony
05 Nights In White Satin 
06 Doc talks to the crowd
07 Tennessee Waltz (snippet)
08 more Doc chatter with the crowd
09 I Am A Pilgrim
10 Doc introduces Richard Watson and tuning
11 Workingman's Blues
12 Summertime
13 In The Pines
14 Step It Up And Go
15 David Holt returns
16 Somebody's Been Fooling
17 Milk Cow Blues
18 Docs tells a story
19 Roll On Buddy
20 Down Yonder
21 Dixie 


1-8 Doc solo
9-13 with Richard Watson
14-20 with Richard and David
21 - Doc solo harmonica