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Doc Watson - Rare Performances 1963-1981 Features
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About Doc Watson - Rare Performances 1963-1981
Product Description This collection of rarely seen DVD performances illustrate the power and range of Doc's talents and the evolution of his performance style. His music ranges from flatpicking guitar instrumentals, a harmonica solo, acapella gospel singing, frailing banjo to fingerstyle guitar and warm vocals. The tapestry of sounds Doc wove during his first two decades performing outside North Carolina unfolds in these enduring and inspiring performances. Run time 60 minutes DVD is region 0, playable worldwide. Review Those wishing to see, as well as hear, Doc Watson's guitar wizardry have a number of video choices, ranging from instructional tapes to performances with his late son Merle, to recent solo shows. These two Rare Performances Vestapol videos take a historical approach to Watson's career. The first video covers his early years until the rather arbitrary cutoff point of 1981. The earliest footage is very entertaining, particularly the rough, black-and-white clip of Watson's tuxedo-clad appearance on the "Hootenanny" TV Show. A 1967 trio performance from the Seattle Folklore Society finds Watson as part of a folk trio also including fiddler Fred Price and guitarist Clint Howard. One of their two tunes, "Daniel rayed," is an a capella vocal trio.Watson appears solo on a clip from Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" show. The remainder of the video documents most of Watson's long performing history with his son Merle, including pieces from a 1970 Los Angeles show, "Austin City Limits" in 1978, and the Cambridge folk festival in 1981. The second video, covering the period from 1982 to the present, includes the final Doc and Merle performance from 1982, but emphasizes his "solo" career following his son's death in 1985. The last several years are featured, through performances at the Merle Watson festival with Ricky Skaggs, regular performing partner Jack Lawrence, and in some all-star jam footage that finds Watson trading licks with the likes of David Grisman, Jerry Douglas, and Béla Fleck. The most recent clips, from a 1993 TV appearance, show Watson performing solo, chops and stage humor in fine form. These concert videos provide a nice overview of Watson's career to date, although the "rare" appellation probably only applies to the early material from the first tape. --Dirty Linen About the Actor Doc Watson is a legend in acoustic music, with a unique style influenced by his traditional Appalachian folk music roots, blues, country, gospel, and bluegrass. Despite being blind since infancy, Doc has been making music his whole life and is considered by fans everywhere to be one of the world s most accomplished flatpickers. Arthel Lane Doc Watson was born in Stoney Fork Township, NC, on March 3, 1923 surrounded by music. His mother sang traditional and religious songs, and his father played the banjo. Doc s first instruments were a harmonica and a homemade banjo, but he soon showed a talent on the guitar. After receiving his first guitar from his father, Doc started playing both family favorites and new material he picked up from records and the radio with neighbors and family. Doc s talent developed to the point where he supported his family through the 1950 s playing music and tuning pianos. His main occupation was playing electric guitar in a country dance band with pianist Jack Williams, but he also continued to play traditional acoustic music with his friends Tom Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard, and Fred Price. A performance with Ashley, Howard, and Prince at Union Grove, North Carolina in 1960 brought Doc together with folklorist Ralph Rinzler. By 1961, Rinzler had arranged for Ashley, Howard, Prince, and Doc to perform in New York City for a Friends of Old-Time Music concert, and one year later Doc performed solo for the first time at Gerde s Folk City in Greenwich Village. For the next several years, Doc made the folk music circuit, playing concerts all over the country and appearing at the 1963 Newport Folk Festiv
