Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!
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{{Infobox album
| name = Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!
| type = studio album
| artist = Doc Watson
| cover = DocWatsonGoodDeal.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1968
| recorded = Nashville, TN
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Folk, country blues
| length = 38:06
| label = Vanguard
| producer = Jack Lothrop
| chronology = Doc Watson
| prev_title = Old-Timey Concert
| prev_year = 1967
| next_title = Doc Watson on Stage
| next_year = 1971
}}
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
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} {{cite web |first=Bruce |last= Eder |title= Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal! > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r94526 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}
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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