Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!

Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!
Studio album by Doc Watson
Released	1968
Recorded	Nashville, TN
Genre	Folk, country blues
Length	38:06
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Jack Lothrop
Doc Watson chronology
Old-Timey Concert (1967) Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal! (1968) Doc Watson on Stage (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.

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Allmusic

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

1. "Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) – 2:12
2. "Streamline Cannonball" (Roy Acuff) – 2:28
3. "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:59
4. "June Apple" (Traditional) – 2:12
5. "I'm Thinking of My Blue Eyes" (A. P. Carter) – 3:28
6. "Memphis Blues" (W. C. Handy, George Norton) – 2:45
7. "The Train That Carried My Girl from Town" (Traditional) – 3:47
8. "Old Camp Meeting Time" (Traditional) – 2:50
9. "Bye Bye Blues" (Dave Bennett, Chauncy Gray, Fred Hamm, Bert Lown) – 2:44
10. "Shady Grove" (Traditional) – 2:59
11. "Blackberry Rag" (Watson) – 2:40
12. "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band" (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree) – 3:24
13. "Rainbow" (Traditional) – 2:34
14. "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