Black Mountain Rag

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Allmusic	[1]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steve Leggett wrote of the album "... what is immediately striking about this compilation is how varied it is, even as it settles nicely into familiar "Watson country." Again, there's no such thing as a bad Doc Watson album, and this one, like all the others, shows why he's a true national treasure."[1]

1. "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:42
2. "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams) – 2:47
3. "Black Pine Waltz" (Traditional) – 2:34
4. "Red Rocking Chair" (Traditional, Watson) – 2:06
5. "Twinkle, Twinkle" (Traditional) – 3:04
6. "Below Freezing" (Coleman) – 2:20
7. "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 2:30
8. "Liza/Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) – 2:56
9. "Down Yonder" (Traditional) – 2:23
10. "Cotton Row" (Traditional) – 2:47
11. "Sadie" (T. Michael Coleman, Byron Hill) – 2:30
12. "Leaving London" (Tom Paxton) – 2:32
13. "Guitar Polka" (Dexter, Paris) – 2:22
14. "Fisher's Hornpipe/Devil's Dream" (Traditional) – 1:44
15. "Along the Road" (Dan Fogelberg) – 2:52
16. "Bye Bye Bluebelle/Smiles" (Travis) – 2:13
17. "Sheeps in the Meadow/Stoney Fork" (Traditional) – 2:53
18. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer) – 2:17
19. "Blackberry Blossom" (Traditional) – 3:15
20. "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 2:31

• Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica
• Merle Watson – guitar, dobro, banjo, slide guitar
• T. Michael Coleman – bass, harmony vocals
• Herb Pedersen – harmony vocals
• Mark O'Connor – fiddle, mandolin
• Tony Rice – guitar
• Norman Blake – mandolin
• Ron Tutt – drums
• Gene Estes – percussion
• Hank "Bones" Kahn – bones
• Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
• Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
• Byron Berline – fiddle
• Tom Scott – clarinet
• Pat McInerney – drums, percussion

Production notes

• Hank Cicalo – engineer
• Ernie Winfrey – engineer
• Bill Wolf – engineer
• Jonathan Wyner – mastering