Doc Watson Merle Watson: Doc and Merle: Guitar: Recorded Performance

Doc & Merle reaches deep into the relationship between Doc and Merle Watson. It gives an historical overview of their evolution as musicians and explores the special bond between them and the North Carolina mountains they call home. It presents an entertaining and enlightening look at their lives and their music. During their 21-year career the Watsons' mastery of guitar and their unique blend of traditional bluegrass country and western blues and gospel music won them aninternational audience and numerous awardsThis documentary is a rich mixture of music informal interviews old photographs and rare film footage. The wide range of musical influences the Watsons' embraced is clearly shown through concert footage and less formal at-home picking sessions.Sixteen songs are presented ranging from Black Mountain Rag and Wabash Cannonball to Blue Suede Shoes and Freight Train Blues. Doc is reunited musically with Jack Williams his partner from the early 1950s for a rare rockabilly performance of Step It Up And Go. He also performs with Clint Howard and Fred Price playing Fire On The Mountain and Daniel Prayed and with his wife Rosa Lee for a moving rendition of Wandering Boy.This DVD is dedicated to the memory of Merle Watson who died in a tractor accident on October 23rd 1985.

Doc Watson was a legendary performer who blended his traditional Appalachian musical roots with bluegrass country gospel and blues to create a unique style and an expansive repertoire. His flatpicking style elevated the acoustic guitar to solo status in bluegrass and country music and whose interpretations of traditional American music profoundly influenced generations of folk and rock guitarists.Doc was born in Deep Gap North Carolina on March 3 1923 into a family already rich in musical tradition. His mother Annie Watson sang traditional secular and religious songs and his father General Watson played the banjo which was Doc's first instrument as well.In 1953 Doc met Jack Williams a local piano player and played rockabilly/swing music for seven years a period and a style that he later revisited in the album Docabilly. But he also continued to play acoustic traditional music with his family and with his banjo playing neighbor Clarence Tom Ashley. In 1960 spurred by the growing folk revival folklorists Ralph Rinzler and Eugene Earle came south to record Ashley and heard Doc Watson in the process. These sessions resulted in Doc's first recordings Old-Time Music at Clarence Ashley's.In 1961 the Friends of Old-Time Music invited Doc Ashley Clint Howard and Fred Price to perform at a now-legendary concert in New York City and one year later Doc gave his first solo performance at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village. From then on he was a full-time professional playing a wide range of concerts clubs colleges and festivals including the Newport Folk Festival and Carnegie Hall.In the late 1960s Doc was joined on the road by his son Merle who provided both musical and emotional companionship; with Merle playing guitar and banjo and serving as partner and driver the father-son team expanded their audience nationwide. Sadly Merle died in 1985 from a tractor accident.A series of over 50 remarkable recordings including collaborations with Flatt & Scruggs Chet Atkins and

De Doc Watson, Merle Travis jusqu'à Jerry Reed, en passant par James Burton... vous découvrirez dans ce DVD toutes les techniques essentielles d'accompagnement et d'improvisation, tant à l'acoustique qu'à l'électrique, utilisables dans les musiques country, bluegrass, country/blues, country/rock, rockabilly... Au programme : les techniques de solo et d'accompagnement dans le style bluegrass/old-time, l'improvisation country/blues traditionnelle, comment créer son 'travis-picking' autour d'une grille (variations et improvisation), le 'picking' Nashville, les torsions de cordes (effet pedal-steel), les gammes d'improvisation et les 'couleurs' country Nashville, les techniques du roll (technique banjo bluegrass adaptée à la guitare), etc. Durée : 90 mn / Guitare

Ce DVD présente Tony dans trois différents paramètres enregistrés au Festival 1992 Merle Watson en jouant une grande variété de musique. Comprend ' Rouge Boy aux cheveux ', ' I Wonder où vous êtes ce soir ' et 'Ombres'. / DVD

DVD Three: Graduating into Classic Repertoire-EASY STEPS TO GUITAR FINGERPICKING DVD Three: Graduating into Classic RepertoireBack in standard tuning you're introduced to the songs and styles of Merle Travis Doc Watson John Hurt and other masters of traditional fingerpicking. You'll learn to move freely around the fingerboard and will be playing licks slides hammer-ons and bass runs while maintaining the steady thumb rhythm that gives this style its ear-catching appeal. By the time you've completed this course you'll be picking: I Am a Pilgrim • Deep River Blues • Louis Collins • Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out • Step It Up and Go. 60 MIN. • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB