The Owsley Stanley Foundation recently released a superb Doc Watson CD, Never the Same Way Once on June 23, 2017. Merle and T. Michael Coleman are everywhere, along with various guests. It’s 7 CDs and goes for $70.69; used copies aren’t much better. They were recorded from May 1-4, 1974 but sound fresh as can be. The playing is topnotch and Merle’s slide guitar is as solid as always.

Disc 1

1. Salty Dog Blues
2. Doc's Talking
3. Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas)
4. Miss the Mississippi and You
5. Wabash Cannonball
6. Nancy Rowland
7. Solid Gone
8. Tennessee Stud
9. Frosty Morn
10. Matchbox Blues
11. Mama Don't Allow
12. Deep Elem Blues

Disc 2

1. Introduction
2. Good Old Mountain Dew
3. Travellin' Man
4. Miss the Mississippi and You
5. Wabash Cannonball
6. Leather Britches / Cotton Eyed Joe
7. A Rovin' On A Winter's Night
8. Tennessee Stud
9. Black Mountain Rag
10. St. James Infirmary
11. Love Me
12. Blue Suede Shoes
13. Sweet Georgia Brown
14. Lonesome Moan

Disc 3

1. Clouds Gwine Roll Away
2. Three Times Seven
3. Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
4. Poor Boy Blues
5. Nancy Rowland / Salt Creek
6. Alberta
7. Movin' On
8. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!
9. Walk On Boy
10. Nothin' To It
11. Blue Railroad Train
12. Brown's Ferry Blues
13. Beaumont Rag

Disc 4

1. New River Train
2. Doggone My Time
3. Peace Pickin' Time In Georgia
4. Poor Boy Blues
5. Nancy Rowland / Salt Creek
6. Alberta
7. Natural Born Gambling Man
8. Doc's Guitar
9. Matchbox Blues
10. Streamlined Cannonball
11. Summertime
12. Love Me
13. Blue Suede Shoes

Disc 5

1. Mama Don't Allow
2. Freight Train Boogie
3. Life Gets Teejus Don't It
4. Miss the Mississippi and You
5. Wabash Cannonball
6. Leather Britches / Cotton - Eyed Joe
7. Bye Bye Bluebell
8. Tennessee Stud
9. South Coast
10. Sweet Georgia Brown
11. St. James Infirmary
12. Step It Up and Go
13. Jailhouse Rock

Disc 6

1. Introduction
2. Way Down Town
3. Billboard Song
4. Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas)
5. Miss the Mississippi and You
6. Poor Boy Blues
7. Nancy Rowland / Old Joe Clark
8. Chicken Road
9. The Last Thing On My Mind
10. Solid Gone
11. South Coast
12. Going Down The Road Feelin' Bad
13. Summertime
14. Love Me
15. Jailhouse Rock
16. Hound Dog

Disc 7

1. Brown's Ferry Blues
2. Gambler's Yodel
3. Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
4. Wabash Cannonball
5. Beaumont Rag
6. In The Jailhouse Now
7. Lovesick Blues
8. Black Mountain Rag
9. Tennessee Stud
10. St. James Infirmary
11. Sheik of Araby
12. Step It Up and Go
13. Mama Don't Allow

Billastro