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..."
Track listing "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:12 "Streamline Cannonball" (Roy Acuff) – 2:28 "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:59 "June Apple" (Traditional) – 2:12 "I'm Thinking of My Blue Eyes" (A. P. Carter) – 3:28 "Memphis Blues" (W. C. Handy, George Norton) – 2:45 "The Train That Carried My Girl from Town" (Traditional) – 3:47 "Old Camp Meeting Time" (Traditional) – 2:50 "Bye Bye Blues" (Dave Bennett, Chauncy Gray, Fred Hamm, Bert Lown) – 2:44 "Shady Grove" (Traditional) – 2:59 "Blackberry Rag" (Watson) – 2:40 "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band" (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree) – 3:24 "Rainbow" (Traditional) – 2:34 "Step It Up and Go" (Blind Boy Fuller) – 1:55
Personnel Doc Watson – 6 & 12 string guitars, banjo, vocals Merle Watson – guitar Junior Huskey – bass Floyd Cramer – piano Buddy Harman – drums Shot Jackson – dobro Grady Martin – guitar, Spanish dobro Buddy Spicher – fiddle Tommy Jackson - fiddle Don Stover – banjo Production notes Jack Lothrop – producer Jules Halfant – art direction Joel Brodsky – photography
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