Doc Watson (with Fred Price & Clint Howard)
"Fiddler's Convention"
Mountain City, TN
August 19, 1978

Source: SBD > ? > Cassette (SONY Metal ES90). Transfer: Tascam 112 MKII > M-Audio 2496 > Soundforge 8.0 Wav @ 44.1kHz/16 bit > CD Wave > Flac

This is a really amazing and different Doc Watson recording from Mountain City, TN, where back in the '20's they used to have an annual "Fiddler's Convention" that would draw musicians into town to compete for $40 in prize money. Doc and his friends and family were at this down-home event to commemorate this event of American music history. Fred Price on fiddle and Clint Howard on guitar accompany Doc for the second part of the set in what is a real entertaining excursion into the songs of yesteryear. Some tape hiss shouldn't take away too much from the enjoyment of this gem. - Dub Irie 08/26/2006

01. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
02. Daybreak Blues
03. Deep River Blues
04. Wild Bill Jones
05. Shady Grove
06. I Wish I Was A Hole In The Ground
07. Salty Dog
08. Doc Talking

(w/ Fred Price & Clint Howard)
09. Way Down Town
10. I Saw A Man At The Close Of Day
11. Fire On The Mountain
12. Rubin's Train
13. On The Banks Of Ol' Tennessee
14. New River Train
15. Walkin' In The Streets
16. Homesick For Heaven
17. Talking
18. Mountain Dew
19. Pretty Little Pink

-Encore-
20. The Crawdad Song

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1962-xx-xx (Los Angeles, CA - Ash Grove - "Rye Cove")
1962-xx-xx (Deep Gap, NC - "Twilight Is Stealing," "Lonely Tombs," "Will My Mother Know Me There?")
1963-02-10
*1963-03-07
*1963-05-(09-10)
1963-xx-xx (Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival)
*1964-01-01
1964-03-(19-20)
1964-xx-xx (Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival)
1964-xx-xx (Los Angeles, CA - UCLA - "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder," "Somebody Touched Me")
*1965-04-13
1965-xx-xx (Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival)
*1966-06-06
*1966-07-06
*1967-05-(02-07)
*1967-11-(18-21)
*1967-11-(23-26)
1967-xx-xx (Seattle, WA)
*1968-07-(27-28)
*1969-09-09
*1970-09-20
1970-xx-xx (New York, NY - Cornell University & The Town Hall)
*1973-05-26
1973-11-(01-02)
1973-xx-xx (Deep Gap, NC - "A Tiny Broken Heart," "My Wandering Boy," "Just A Friend")
1974-05-(01-04)
*1975-04-24
*1977-08-13
1978-10-(11-13)
1979-09-25
*1988-07-01
1988-08-21
1990-03-24
1997-10-10
2001-02-(02-03)
2001-xx-xx (Asheville, NC - Diana Wortham Theatre) 
2002-03-28
2002-08-31
2002-12-xx (Winston-Salem, NC - Reynolds Auditorium)