Doc Watson
Roxy Theater
Los Angeles, CA
1979-03-19

Source: audience recording on unknown deck with unknown mics
Lineage: master cassette > cassette > HD > wav
Encoding: CDWave > flac frontend > flac
Recorded by: a friend of a friend
Transfer by: Pantagruel

File Size: 577 MB (FLAC)


Total Time [01:52:00]


Setlist:

Disc One [54:50]

Early Show

01. [00:49] Intro
02. [03:32] Way Downtown
03. [03:22] Doc's Talkin' Blues
04. [03:24] Deep Elem Blues
05. [03:10] If I Needed You
06. [02:52] Windy And Warm
07. [03:11] Open Up Them Pearly Gates For Me
08. [02:58] Lonesome Blues
09. [03:12] Brown's Ferry Blues
10. [02:18] Big Sandy/Bill Cheatham
11. [03:15] Little Sadie
12. [02:59] I Am A Pilgrim
13. [04:55] Doc's Guitar/Preacher Stories
14. [03:21] T For Texas
15. [03:35] Hobo Bill's Last Ride
16. [03:30] Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
17. [02:57] Freight Train Boogie
18. [01:21] Rain Crow Bill

Disc Two [57:10]

Late Show

01. [03:29] Long Journey Home
02. [04:50] Dig A Little Deeper In The Well
03. [03:19] Gambler's Yodel
04. [04:21] More Preacher Stories
05. [03:04] Black Mountain Rag
06. [03:08] Milk Cow Blues
07. [02:10] A-Rovin' On A Winter's Night
08. [02:22] Nine Pound Hammer
09. [03:53] Natural Born Gamblin' Man
10. [04:00] Nobody's Fault But Mine
11. [02:50] The Billboard Song
12. [03:51] Instrumental (this one's driving me nuts, the title is on the tip of my tongue, a Merle Travis tune right? Help please!)
13. [03:05] All I Have To Do Is Dream
14. [02:32] Deep River Blues
15. [03:09] Sheik of Araby
16. [04:05] Tennessee Stud
17. [02:50] Tell It To Me


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Notes:

This is one of my favorite Doc Watson performances. Like the best Doc Watson shows, it's part clinic, part musical history lesson of sweeping scope, and pure entertainment delight. This one fits the bill. Some of Doc's stories are priceless. I transferred this a long time ago, but held off on seeding it because the crowd is *very* loud. I took a shot at trying to correct it, but I wasn't happy with the results. Eventually I figured if I didn't just get it out there, it may never happen, and it really deserves to be heard. So if somebody wants to have a crack at correcting the volume issues, be my guest.

The guys who recorded this were not serious tapers. It sounds like the deck was sitting on the table top. The music itself sounds not too bad. Most (but not all) of the loud crowd noise is between songs. There's some distracting audience chatter in some parts (some cringe-inducing comments), plus clinking glasses, mic handling noises and the odd cut (there's a fade/tape flip between "Milk Cow Blues" and "A-Rovin' On A Winter's Night" -- there may be others, I don't remember exactly where).

Really interesting setlist (Deadheads take note!). Awesome version of "Little Sadie," sweet "I Am A Pilgrim," among many others. Setlist help would be much appreciated (especially for that one instrumental in the late show, which is so familiar).

Please check out the samples before downloading. Hope you like it.