| Identifier | 8343621 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Reference Number | 88 |
| Note | In June 1969, I rode with Jim and Artie Marshall to the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival and
taped a lot of the festival with my reel-to-reel recorder. While I was setting up to record the workshop in the 'barn', I heard Doc Watson playing backstage and ran my microphone cord through a break in the wall beside the stage and ran around to connect my microphone to it. What I found was Doc Watson and Don Reno sitting on a bench in a back room, both playing guitar. There were a few people standing around that can be heard asking for tunes, but I think I was the only one with a tape recorder. The volume levels were set too high, so there is some audio distortion, but the recorder was on the other side of the wall, so I could not see the levels. Much of the tape is of either Doc or Don playing a tune with the other playing backup but there are a few where both played lead (see below) and there is a lot of discussion between tunes which is left unedited. The subsequent workshop was the origin of the tape of Doc Watson and Bill Monroe that was circulated on Bluegrass Box by Jim Norstad who copied my original tape. This tape of Reno and Watson has not been previously circulated (annotated by Ken Landreth 6/12/07) |
| Trades Allowed |
Performance
| Doc Watson & Don Reno 1969-06-21 Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festival, Bean Blossom, IN | |
|---|---|
| Set 1 | Redwing Pick Along (Watson) Speedin' West/Nashville Pickin' (Watson) Soldiers Joy (Reno) Devil's Dream (Watson) T For Texas (Watson & Reno) Brown's Ferry Blues (Watson & Reno) Country Boy Rock And Roll (Reno) Black Mountain Blues (Watson) Sugar Foot Rag (Reno) Fire On The Mountain (Reno) Women Make A Fool Out Of Me (Watson & Reno) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Reno & Watson) |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | |