Biography
The Doc Watson Family is the attribution of recordings by American folk music artist Doc Watson and wider family members originally released as an album in 1963. The field recordings were done by Ralph Rinzler, Eugene W. Earle, Archie Green, and Peter Siegel from 1960 to 1963. Artists on the recordings include Doc Watson (guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, autoharp, vocals), Merle Watson (guitar, banjo), Gaither Carlton (banjo, fiddle, vocals), Dolly Greer (vocals), Sophronie Miller Greer (vocals), Annie Watson (vocals), Arnold Watson (banjo, harmonica, vocals), Rosa Lee Watson (vocals), Willard Watson (banjo), Ralph Rinzler (guitar).
The album was re-released on Smithsonian Folkways on CD in 1990 with additional tracks from the 1970s.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.