Remembering Merle

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{{Infobox album

| name = Remembering Merle

| type = live album

| artist = Doc Watson, Merle Watson

| cover = RememberingMerle.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 1992

| recorded = 1970–1976

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk, gospel

| length = 58:28

| label = Sugar Hill

| producer = T. Michael Coleman

| chronology = Doc Watson

| prev_title = My Dear Old Southern Home

| prev_year = 1991

| next_title = Songs from the Southern Mountains

| next_year = 1994

}}

Remembering Merle is the title of a recording by American folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1992. The songs were all recorded live between 1970 and 1976.

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} {{cite web |first= Thom |last=Owens |title= Remembering Merle > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r118285 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}

|noprose=yes

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Track listing

  1. "Frosty Morn" (Traditional) – 3:44
  2. "Omie Wise" (Traditional) – 5:52
  3. "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) – 3:23
  4. "Honey Babe Blues" (Traditional) – 3:01
  5. "St. James Infirmary" (Joe Primrose, Traditional) – 3:52
  6. "Honey Please Don't Go" (Hodges) – 2:30
  7. "Nancy Rowland/Salt Creek" – 1:55
  8. "Miss the Mississippi and You" (Halley) – 4:20
  9. "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) – 2:46
  10. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:30
  11. "New River Train" (Traditional) – 3:38
  12. "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:39
  13. "Southern Lady Hill" – 3:36
  14. "Mama Don't Allow It" (Cahn, Davenport) – 5:02
  15. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins) – 2:35
  16. "Wayfaring Stranger" – 3:30
  17. "Thoughts of Never" (Watson) – 2:35

Personnel

  • Doc Watson – guitar, vocals
  • Merle Watson – guitar, banjo, slide guitar, vocals
  • T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
  • Joe Smothers – guitar, harmony vocals
  • Bob Hill – piano, guitar, harmony vocals
  • Charles Cochran – piano

Production notes

  • Produced by T. Michael Coleman

References

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