Genre: Album
Grade: A
Notable People: Doc Watson and David Grisman
Title: Doc and Dawg Live at Acoustic Stage
Review: Got this for Christmas from The Nave….and it’s a stunner. The incomparable Doc Watson on guitar and the brilliant mandolin musings from the legendary David Grisman -captured live in 1997. Doc sits in for the usual Dawg pairing with Jerry Garcia, and takes it to another level. Joined by local NC fab flat picker Jack Lawrence and then for a magnificent set of acoustic blues by Docs late grandson, Richard…who was the last of the line of fabled Watson guitarists along with Doc and Merle, who had died tragically a few years earlier in a tractor accident. All gone now, except, foe the Dawg…but this music is timeless, and Doc’s between-songs patter is worth the price of admission alone. It’s quite a bar for any aspiring picker to live up to. Magnificent.