Doc Watson
with Richard Watson and Jack Lawrence

05-21-04
Variety Playhouse
Atlanta, GA.


Happy Holidaze to all you flat-pickin' junkies out there !  Grab this one !


This is about the best it gets as far as an audience recording goes, IMHO :  

A great performance by a MASTER in a small venue, with a respectful crowd  
(except for the one guy AT EVERY SHOW who can't hold his liquor and shouts 
out requests after every song).  This is Doc at his absolute finest. Every song is 
played beautifully, and again, the crowd didn't make a sound throughout the night.

My personal favorite on this night was "In the Pines" - just haunting vocals from Doc.

The whole performance is wonderful, with the exception of the last song - Tennessee
Stud is CUT - as your humble taper didn't calculate properly and ran out of space on 
his MiniDisc.  Sorry....

I didn't do any EQ'ing of any sort. Feel free to do with this what you may, except
sell it, of course.


AUDIENCE RECORDING

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

Set 1 (~60 min)

01 Train Whistle Blues
02 House of the Rising Sun
03 Summertime
04 Don'tcha Monkey Wit My Widow When I'm Gone
05 Columbus Stockade Blues
06 Stand By Me
07 Never See My Home Again
08 Cora's Gone
09 Eight More Miles To Louisville
10 Stoney Creek
11 Shady Grove
12 Ready For the Times To Get Better
13 Stranger Blues
14 Bye Bye Blues

Set 2 (~51 min)

01 Frankie & Johnny
02 St James Infirmary
03 Sliding Delta
04 Life Gets Tedious, Don't It ?
05 In the Pines 
06 C.C. Rider
07 Milk Cow Blues
08 Uncloudy Day
09 Eastbound Freight Train
10 If I Should Wander Back Tonight
11 Black Mountain Rag
12 Tennessee Stud (cut)