The songs of Doc Watson. by Watson, Doc

Step it up and go : the story of North Carolina popular music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk / by Menconi, David

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : March 1991 -- Linthead pop : Charlie Poole, the father of mill-town rock (and the first rock star) -- Step it up and go : Blind Boy Fuller, Durham, and the Piedmont blues -- Through the airwaves : Arthur Smith in Charlotte -- Rocket man : Earl Scruggs and the birth of bluegrass -- From gospel to rhythm and blues : the "5" Royales and the rise of a new African American sound -- The American folk revival comes to North Carolina : Doc Watson -- Breaking color lines at the beach : the Embers and beach music -- The eight-track era of rock and roll : Nantucket's long way to the top -- Combo corner : Mitch Easter's Winston-Salem -- Chapel Hill : the "next Seattle" era -- How to make it in the music business without really trying : Colonial, Sugar Hill, and Merge Records -- Y'alternative : the rise of Americana -- Salvation songs : the Avett Brothers -- Songs of immigrants and emigrants : from Nina Simone to the Kruger Brothers -- Hip-hop goes to college : 9th Wonder and Little Brother -- Famous on television : Scotty McCreery, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, and American idol -- Epilogue : September 2013.…”

The story of the "Ink Spots," by Watson, Deek

Frank Zappa : the negative dialectics of poodle play / by Watson, Ben, 1956-

Judy : portrait of an American legend / by Watson, Thomas, 1948-

A rollick of recorders, or other instruments : thirteen popular colonial tunes / by Watson, Herbert, 1941-

Musick of the fifes & drums /

Whose country music? : genre, identity, and belonging in twenty-first-century country music culture /

Cowboy jamboree: western songs & lore, by Felton, Harold W., 1902-1991

Great guitarists / by Kienzle, Richard

Table of Contents: “…King -- Freddy King -- Otis Rush -- T-Bone Walker -- Secondary: Albert Collins -- Blind Boy Fuller -- Mississippi John Hurt -- Willie Lee Johnson -- Muddy Waters -- Country Music, Primary: Mabelle Carter -- Sam McGee -- Jimmie Ridgers -- Chet Atkins -- Jimmy Bryant -- Hank Garland -- Albert Lee -- Joe Maphis -- Grady Martin -- Eldon Shamblin -- Merle Travis -- Doc Watson -- Secondary: Junior Barnard -- Phil Baugh -- Jerry Reed -- Zeke Turner -- Clarence White -- Jazz, Primary: Charlie Byrd -- Charlie Christian -- Tal Farlowo -- Barney Kessel -- Eddie Land -- Wes Montgomery -- Les Paul -- Jimmy Raney -- Django Reinhardt -- George Van Eps -- Secondary: Larry Coryell -- Herb Ellis -- Dick McDonough -- Oscar Moore -- Joe Pass -- Rock, Promary: Duane Allman -- Jeff Beck -- Chuck Berry -- Michael Bloomfield -- James Burton -- Eric Clapton -- Jimi Hendrix -- Lonnie Mack -- Scotty Moore -- Jimmy Page -- Carl Perkins -- Secondary: Steve Cropper -- Duane Eddy -- Jimmy Nolen -- Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Link Wray.…”

Traditional musicians of the central Blue Ridge : old time, early country, folk and bluegrass label recording artists, with discographies / by McGee, Marty, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…"Pop" Stoneman -- Sweet Brothers -- Robert Sykes and the Surry County Boys -- Virginia Mountain Boys -- Dock Walsh -- Fields Ward -- Wade Ward -- Doc Watson -- Ephraim Woodie and the Henpecked Husbands -- Art Wooten.…”

A collection of Strathspey reels : with a bass for the violoncello or harpsichord / by Marshall, William

Table of Contents: “…Marquis of Huntly's farewell -- Miss Dallas's reel -- Miss Grant of Knockando's reel -- Miss Jean Stewart's reel - Miss Sally Eglison's reel -- Miss Burnet's reel -- Lor Alexander Gordon's reel -- Miss Ketty Allan's reel -- Miss Halkets reel -- Miss Wedderburn's reel -- Miss ann Stewart's reel -- Miss Watson's reel.…”

From every stage : images of America's roots music / by Ledgin, Stephanie P.

Table of Contents: “…Huskey in his own words -- John Hartford on Huskey : hearing in colors -- Johnson Mountain Boys : not at the old schoolhouse -- Marty Stuart on Lester Flatt -- The Bottom Line was tops -- Jimmie Skinner, gentleman songwriter -- Vassar Clements fiddles hillbilly jazz -- Doc Watson : "applause is like an amplified friendly handshake" -- "Taste the traditional" with the Bluegrass Band.…”

I'd fight the world : a political history of old-time, hillbilly, and country music / by La Chapelle, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost of Tom Watson -- Fire on the mountain: the initial surge of old-time and hillbilly music campaigns -- "Like Orpheus": the nineteenth century encounters the twentieth -- Antisemitism and Henry Ford's old-time music revival -- Sound trucks and radio stars: the arrival of the nonperformers -- Pensions and poll taxes: identifying a style of hillbilly music politics -- Utopian buckaroo: senator Glen Taylor and country music's left tradition -- Dixie-bent and White House-bound: regional culture, national aspirations -- A fiery but fickle faith: the Vanderbilt agrarians, Southern politics, and the country music memoir -- The nonperformers take over: Big Jim, the Little Judge, and the nationalization of country music politics -- Still not ready to make nice: the legacies of the country music campaign.…”

Another sheaf of white spirituals /

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Classic country : legends of country music / by Wolfe, Charles K.

Table of Contents: “…Brumley -- Stringbean -- Girls of the Golden West -- Billie Maxwell -- Red River Dave -- Skeets McDonald -- Hazel and Alice -- Doc Watson -- Roy Harper -- Freight Hoppers.…”

Children of the blues : 49 musicians shaping a new blues tradition / by Tipaldi, Art

Table of Contents: “…Lane -- Charlie Musselwhite -- Kenny Neal -- Lucky Peterson -- Bobby Rush -- Carl Weathersby -- Lil' Ed Williams -- Texas: Marcia Ball -- Anson Funderburgh and Sam Myers -- Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King -- Delbert McClinton -- Sherman Robertson -- Tommy Shannon -- Jimmie Vaughn -- Kim Wilson -- East Coast: Rory Block -- John Hammond -- Taj Mahal -- Bob Margolin -- Dave Maxwell -- Paul Rishell -- Duke Robillard -- Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women -- West Coast: Al Blake -- Robert Cray -- Debbie Davies -- James Harman -- Fred Kaplan -- Keb' Mo' (Keb Mo) -- Doug MacLeod -- Coco Montoya -- Kelly Joe Phelps -- Rod and Honey Piazza -- Joe Louis Walker -- Junior Watson…”

Roadhouse blues : Stevie Ray Vaughan and Texas R&B / by Gregory, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Clark -- Albert Collins -- Johnny Copeland -- Double Trouble -- Chris Duarte -- Eddie Durham -- Joe Ely -- The Fabulous Thunderbirds -- Flatlanders -- Anson Funderburgh -- Roy Gaines -- Jow Guitar Hughes -- Long John Hunter -- Eric Johnson -- Andrey Junior Boy Jones -- Tutu Jones -- Freddie King -- Smokin' Joe Kubek -- Johnny Lang -- Lonnie Mack -- Delbert McClinton -- Mike Mogan & The Crawl -- Omar & The Howlers -- Kid Ramos -- Sherman Robertson -- Duke Robillard -- Roomful of Blues -- Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados) -- Charlie Sexton -- Kenny Wayne Shepherd -- Storyville -- Susan Tedeschi -- Jimmie Vaughan -- Johnny Guitar Watson -- Hop Wilson -- U. P. WIlson -- Kim Wilson -- Johnny Winter.…”

There is no eye : John Cohen photographs / by Cohen, John

Table of Contents: “…Sams, Sidna Myers, Eck Robretson, Flatt & Scruggs, Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, George Davis, Lloyd Chandler, Grandma Pearly Davis) -- To revive us again (Bob Dylan, Ralph Rinzler, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Elizabeth Cotten, Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton, Muddy Waters and Isaac Washington, Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger, skiffle band, Geno Foreman, Eric von Schmidt, Harry Smith, Woody Guthrie, Jack Elliot) -- I made films -- Up and out -- Films by John Cohen -- Field recordings -- Recordings with the New Lost City Ramblers, Companion recording.]…”

Music and the Wesleys /

Table of Contents: “…John Wesley, music, and the people called Methodists / Nicholas Temperley ; Charles Wesley and the music of poetry / J.R. Watson ; Psalms and hymns and hymns and sacred poems : two strands of Wesleyan hymn collections / Robin A. …”