Clarence White and Doc Watson
Private Practice Session
unknown location
circa 1962-1964



1 Footprints in the Snow 1:40
2 1:43
3 1:22
4 Soldier's Joy 1:37
5 1:25
6 1:34
7 1:18
10:42



source: 3rd-generation cassette > Pioneer D-05 DAT deck > my 48 kHz DAT (January 1998)

transfer (April 2014): 48kHz DAT > Sony PCM-R500 > (coax spdif) > Metric Halo MIO-2882 firewire interface > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > MIO Console 5.6.00.211 (record panel) > (48kHz split stereo files) > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, converted to 44.1kHz -- best quality setting, normalized by 10.5 db, split into songs) > aiff/wav > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.30 (sector boundaries repaired; level 8 compression) > flac

NOTES

Source notes: My source for this recording is a DAT offered via a tape tree in November 1997 by Etsuo Eito. I was one of two DAT branches on the tree (the other collector lived in Japan), receiving my DAT from Etsuo. (The "Clarence White's Private Practice Session" tape tree included additional Clarence White material unrelated to this practice session with Doc Watson.) Etsuo clarified for me later that his source was a 3rd generation cassette. He claimed the original source of the circulating recording was Bob Warford, who played with Clarence and the Kentucky Colonels circa 1967.

Recording date: Etsuo told me in early 1997 that his source tape was undated: "I also have no data about these private recordings. The original tape that I got several years ago shows only "Clarence White & Doc Watson" ... That's all. My thought is almost same as your suggestion." My suggestion was that the recording was possibly from the weekend in July 1964 when Clarence and Doc hosted a guitar workshop at the Newport Folk Festival (which was later released on the Long Journey Home CD). Etsuo, however, had earlier surmised that the recording was from as early as 1962. He says the recording may be from when Clarence met Doc Watson when Doc appeared at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles for three weeks with Clarence Ashley's Old Time String Band in March 1962.

As Etsuo said back in 1997: Please keep it (as a) treasure in your tape collection, and never for sale!