Third Generation Blues

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{{Infobox album

| name = Third Generation Blues

| type = studio

| artist = Doc Watson, Richard Watson

| cover = Thirdgenerationblues.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 20, 1999

| recorded = The Loft, Boone, NC, and Falls Church, VA

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk

| length = 48:17

| label = Sugar Hill

| producer = Richard Watson

| chronology = Doc Watson

| prev_title = Del Doc & Mac

| prev_year = 1998

| next_title = The Best of Doc Watson: 1964-1968

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first= |last=|title= Third Generation Blues > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r403526 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}

|noprose=yes

}}

Third Generation Blues is an album by American folk music artist Doc Watson and his grandson Richard Watson, released in 1999.

Track listing

  1. "Honey Please Don't Go" (Bukka White) – 2:48
  2. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin) – 2:51
  3. "House of the Rising Sun" (Holmes, Ray) – 3:19
  4. "Gypsy Davey" (Ken Darby) – 4:34
  5. "St. James Infirmary" (Joe Primrose, Traditional) – 5:04
  6. "Uncloudy Day" (Josiah K. Alwood) – 2:51
  7. "South Coast" (Richard Dehr, Sam Eskin, Frank Miller, Lillian Bos Ross) – 4:05
  8. "Milk Cow Blues" (Kokomo Arnold) – 4:00
  9. "Train Whistle Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:59
  10. "Moody River" (Gary D. Bruce) – 2:55
  11. "Columbus Stockade Blues" (Jimmie Davis, Eva Sagent) – 3:31
  12. "Walk on Boy" (Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker) – 3:08
  13. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:25
  14. "Precious Lord Take My Hand" (Thomas A. Dorsey, George Nelson Allen, Thomas Shepherd) – 2:47

Personnel

  • Doc Watson – guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Richard Watson – guitar
  • T. Michael Coleman – bass

Production notes

  • Produced by Richard Watson
  • Engineered, mixed and mastered by Bill Wolf
  • Photography by Rosa Lee Watson
  • Design by Sue Meyer

References

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