Fingerpicking, Flatpicking and Slide

Other by Merle Watson

Released June 2000

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Opening Tune and Greeting
    1:06
  • 2
    Spike Driver's Blues - Played
    1:03
  • 3
    Southbound - Played
    0:58
  • 4
    Southbound - Techniques
    0:24
  • 5
    Southbound - Played slowly
    0:44
  • 6
    Southbound - Pull-offs on D part explained
    0:39
  • 7
    Southbound - D part variation
    0:54
  • 8
    Southbound - C position variations
    0:23
  • 9
    Southbound - Played at speed
    1:29
  • 10
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Played
    1:20
  • 11
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Played slowly
    1:30
  • 12
    Candy Man - Played
    1:42
  • 13
    Candy Man - Techniques and fingerings - 1st part
    1:54
  • 14
    Candy Man - Techniques and fingerings - 2nd part
    0:48
  • 15
    Candy Man - 2nd part to end - played slowly
    0:36
  • 16
    Candy Man - Played at speed
    1:06
  • 17
    Goin' Down the Road - Played
    1:00
  • 18
    Goin' Down the Road - Tuning and techniques
    2:29
  • 19
    Goin' Down the Road - Fingerings and techniques
    2:19
  • 20
    Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Played
    0:58
  • 21
    Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Fingerings and techniques
    1:21
  • 22
    Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Played with vocal
    2:15
  • 23
    Nine-Pound Hammer - Played
    0:58
  • 24
    Nine-Pound Hammer - Played slowly
    0:38
  • 25
    Nine-Pound Hammer - Techniques
    0:53
  • 26
    Nine-Pound Hammer - Played with vocal
    2:16
  • 27
    The Last Thing On My Mind - Played
    1:38
  • 28
    The Last Thing On My Mind - Played Slowly
    2:20
  • 29
    Worried Blues - Open D tuning
    1:12
  • 30
    Worried Blues - Played
    1:37
  • 31
    Bonaparte's Retreat - Open G tuning
    0:53
  • 32
    Bonaparte's Retreat - Played
    1:51
  • 33
    Bonaparte's Retreat - 1st part - played slowly
    0:33
  • 34
    Bonaparte's Retreat - 2nd part - techniques
    0:43
  • 35
    Bonaparte's Retreat - 3rd part - played slowly
    0:54
  • 36
    Bonaparte's Retreat - Played at speed
    2:32
  • 37
    Windy and Warm - Played
    2:21
  • 38
    Windy and Warm - Merle's 1st part - played
    0:34
  • 39
    Windy and Warm - Merle's 1st part - techniques
    1:05
  • 40
    Windy and Warm - Doc's 1st part - harmony techniques
    0:46
  • 41
    Windy and Warm - Doc's 2nd part - techniques
    1:45
  • 42
    Windy and Warm - Doc's major part - played
    0:18
  • 43
    Windy and Warm - Doc's major part - techniques
    1:19
  • 44
    Windy and Warm - Merle's 'A' position lead
    1:13
  • 45
    Windy and Warm - 'A' major part - techniques
    1:04
  • 46
    Blue Railroad Train - Played with vocal
    1:50
  • 47
    Blue Railroad Train - Merle's 1st part - lead techniques
    0:19
  • 48
    Blue Railroad Train - Merle's 1st part - played
    0:41
  • 49
    Blue Railroad Train - Doc's 1st part - harmony techniques
    1:06
  • 50
    Blue Railroad Train - Flatpicking part
    0:48
  • 51
    Blue Railroad Train - Bass run
    0:33
  • 52
    Solid Gone - Played with vocal
    1:30
  • 53
    Solid Gone - Merle's lead - played slowly
    0:54
  • 54
    Solid Gone - Doc's harmony played
    1:25
  • 55
    Deep River Blues - Played
    1:17
  • 56
    Deep River Blues - Chords and techniques
    1:13
  • 57
    Deep River Blues - Merle's lead version #1
    0:21
  • 58
    Deep River Blues - Merle's lead version #2
    0:40
  • 59
    Deep River Blues - Doc's harmony part - techniques
    1:31
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Intro
    0:34
  • 2
    Slide talk
    0:54
  • 3
    Tuning
    0:42
  • 4
    Slide techniques
    1:19
  • 5
    Poor Boy Blues - Played
    0:36
  • 6
    Poor Boy Blues - Techniques
    0:38
  • 7
    Poor Boy Blues - Right-hand techniques
    1:25
  • 8
    Poor Boy Blues - Positions and chords
    0:56
  • 9
    Day Break Blues - Talk
    0:28
  • 10
    Day Break Blues - Played
    0:59
  • 11
    Day Break Blues - Techniques
    0:39
  • 12
    Day Break Blues - Chords and positions
    0:36
  • 13
    Day Break Blues - Turnaround
    0:36
  • 14
    Day Break Blues - Played with accompaniment
    1:08
  • 15
    Curly Headed Baby - Played
    0:47
  • 16
    Curly Headed Baby - Chords and positions
    0:30
  • 17
    Curly Headed Baby - Played slowly
    0:38
  • 18
    Can't Be Satisfied - Played
    0:32
  • 19
    Can't Be Satisfied - Pull-offs - played and explained
    2:05
  • 20
    Wabash Cannonball - Played
    1:03
  • 21
    Wabash Cannonball - Played Slowly
    0:41
  • 22
    Wabash Cannonball - Fingerings and techniques
    1:16
  • 23
    Wabash Cannonball - Played at speed - with backup
    0:44
  • 24
    Minglewood Blues - Played
    1:19
  • 25
    Minglewood Blues - 1st part - lead played
    0:59
  • 26
    Minglewood Blues - 2nd part - lead played
    0:44
  • 27
    Minglewood Blues - Played with bass
    1:14
  • 28
    Minglewood Blues - Techniques
    1:11
  • 29
    Miss the Mississippi And You - Played slowly
    0:36
  • 30
    Miss the Mississippi And You - Played at speed - with backup
    1:15
  • 31
    Miss the Mississippi And You - Talk and technique
    1:20
  • 32
    Columbus Stockade Blues - Talk
    0:47
  • 33
    Columbus Stockade Blues - Played slowly
    1:08
  • 34
    Columbus Stockade Blues - Played with vocal
    1:24
  • 35
    Columbus Stockade Blues - Intro
    1:16
  • 36
    Columbus Stockade Blues - Techniques
    2:14
  • 37
    Columbus Stockade Blues - Bridge (D minor part)
    0:46
  • 38
    Honky Tonkin' - Played
    1:30
  • 39
    Honky Tonkin' - Played slowly
    1:06
  • 40
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Played with vocal
    1:51
  • 41
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Played slowly
    0:50
  • 42
    Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Played again
    1:30
  • 43
    Old Joe Clark - Played
    1:20
  • 44
    Old Joe Clark - Merle's lead part - played
    0:37
  • 45
    Old Joe Clark - Flatpicking techniques
    1:05
  • 46
    Old Joe Clark - Doc's harmony techniques
    2:27
  • 47
    Salt Creek - Played
    1:21
  • 48
    Salt Creek - Merle's lead - played slowly
    0:40
  • 49
    Salt Creek - Doc's back-up part
    0:54
  • 50
    Salt Creek - Doc's harmony part - played
    1:27
  • 51
    Florida Blues - Played
    1:51
  • 52
    Florida Blues - Doc's 1st part - lead
    1:01
  • 53
    Florida Blues - Merle's blues riffs
    0:58
  • 54
    Florida Blues - Doc's improvised lead
    1:08
  • 55
    Cotton-Eyed Joe - Played
    0:54
  • 56
    Cotton-Eyed Joe - Merle's lead part
    0:45
  • 57
    Cotton-Eyed Joe - Doc's harmony part
    0:50
  • 58
    Red-Haired Boy - Played
    1:28
  • 59
    Red-Haired Boy - Merle's lead - played
    0:38
  • 60
    Red-Haired Boy - Doc's backup part
    0:26
  • 61
    Red-Haired Boy - Harmony parts
    1:16
  • 62
    Blow Your Whistle Freight Train - Played
    1:54

Issues