Doc Watson - Tom Dooley (Official Visualizer)

Life’s Work: A Retrospective, the career-spanning collection from 8x GRAMMY Award winning icon Doc Watson, now available digitally and as a CD Box Set. The new 101 track collection celebrates the life, music and enduring influence of the iconic guitar virtuoso. Accompanying the 4-CD set is an 88-page book, featuring extensive new liner notes by GRAMMY®-nominated author and compilation producer Ted Olson, plus never-before-seen photos.

[greenwolfegreen]

It's always good to hear the voice of my late cousin. I'll never forget hearing him sing to me in his kitchen when I was 10 years old in 1961.

[merlinofavalon]

The roots of most folk blues guitar picking today. Grandfather of Old Time Country music .Pure genius.

[johnholland]

I have heard many versions of this and this is always my favorite

[ericlevy]

Nice... That is blind man blues right there folks...

[sherriberri]

My Pa used to sing this all the time. I miss him, he past last year, but this is a beautiful memory in a song.

[ruthl]

Great old time style, glad i ran into your channel 😄

[KesslerWatsonMusic]

I like how Doc knew which songs were proper to keep simple and which ones were meant to be elaborated on.

Everybody wants to play a Tony rice solo over this song but Doc keeps it simple because it’s a murder ballad and it’s all about melodically enhancing the original melody instead of ripping generic licks over a progression in different orders.

A true musician.

[kathleencalhoun]

Glad to hear this one again. First heard it in 1964, when I was 10 years old. Would like to have traveled back in time to see who these individuals were. Did he really kill her?

[antoniomanni]

È diversa dall'originale, però visto che il cantante non è più con noi, che Dio l'abbia in gloria❤

[dorrin]

Who killed Laurie Foster?

It *probably* wasn't Tom Dooley, at least if you ask residents of the area.

[isaacwilkinson]

I love Doc!! I feel maybe Bob Dylan was influenced by this mans/families style.