Folklife Database: Doc and Merle Watson Concert (with Chubby Anthony and Big Timber Bluegrass)

Item Type:	Sound
Series Number/Title	S1576
Container
Item	Audio recording
Item ID Number	T77-280 through T77-281
Item Title	Doc and Merle Watson Concert (with Chubby Anthony and Big Timber Bluegrass)
Date/Date Range	04/30/1977
Collector/Fieldworker	Florida Folklife Program
Tradition Bearer	Watson, Doc, 1923- Watson, Merle, 1949-1985 Anthony, Donald Chubby, 1936-1980 Big Timber Bluegrass
Ethnicity/Nationality	Anglo American
Genre/Occupation	Singers Musicians Guitarist Bands (Music) Bluegrass musicians Fiddlers Banjoists
Title of Work	Orange Blossom Special (Anthony/Big Timber) (T77-280) Salty Dog Blues Lonesome Road Blues Leaving, I am Georgia Bound I Have Tried So Hard to Understand Bills Tune I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome The Mockingbird Gonna Paint the Town Maggie Blues Carry Me Back to Old Tennessee Foggy Moutain Breakdown I Know You Are Married, But I Love You Still Lee Highway Ramble Lost All My Money But a Two Dollar Bill (Doc and Merle Watson) Spike Railroad Blues I Do Not Love Nobody Breakdown Summertime (cuts off in middle) Going Down That Road Feeling Bad (T77-281) The Cuckoo The Cuckoo Bird Sugar Hill Mean Momma Blues I Miss the Mississippi and You Bye Bye Bluebell Minglewood Blues A Taste of Lifes Sweet Wine Florida Blues (with Chubby Anthony) Momma Do Not Allow No... Old Joe Clark (all)
Subject	Concerts Bands (Music) Guitarists Banjoists Music performance Singing Old time music Fiddlers Bluegrass music Bluegrass musicians Country music Guitar music Banjo music Fiddle music
Place Name	White Springs (Fla.) Hamilton County (Fla.)
Corporate/Conference Name	Florida Folklife Program Stephen Foster Center
General Note/Comment Field	Two reel to reels. Recording of a free concert at the Stephen Foster Center, and sponsored by the Florida Folklife Program. Anthony and Big Timber opened for the Watsons, and later joined them for the finale. Doc Watson was discovered by folklorist Ralph Rinzler in 1960 while recording old-time musician Clarence Ashley in North Carolina. Blind since early childhood, Watson had been playing the guitar for much of his adult life when Rinzler found him. Eagerly accepted by the folk revival boom of the 1960s, he soon began recording best-selling albums and playing folk festivals. His son, Merle, joined him by the mid-1960s. They played old time, country, and bluegrass songs. Known primarily for his flat picking on the acoustic guitar, by the 1970s, Watson and son were highly sought after performers. When Donald "Chubby" Anthony died in Gainesville in 1980, he was considered one of the best bluegrass fiddlers in the nation. Born in Wellborn, South Carolina, Anthony began his career as a teen playing for the bluegrass group, the Stanley Brothers. He moved with them to Florida in 1958 to Live Oak. The song "Cuckoo Bird" by Doc Watson and Merle Watson is available on the Bluegrass & Old Time Music page.

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