Reading and performance at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, North Carolina, December 27, 2024

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“The Charge: Poems Remembering Doc Watson and the Watson Family” by John Thomas York Published by Redhawk Publications

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Read by John Thomas York and Janet Speer with additional narration read by Allen Speer

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Traditional songs arranged and sung by Rachel Anne York

with Elizabeth York, violin

Jane York, violin

Kathryn York, cello

 

00:00 Introduction

07:25 Prologue

08:49 “The View From Deep Gap”

10:24 “Pretty Saro”

14:17 “Singing School, The Sacred Harp”

16:09 “Idumea”

18:33 “Barnyard Bourdon”

20:48 “Sing-Song Kitty”

23:07 “Red Rambeau the Piano Tuner Told Me”

25:27 “Discovery”

28:17 “Newport Folk Festival, 1963”

31:26 “Merle Speaks of a Voice in the Night”

33:29 “Rosa Lee, Merle’s Mother”

35:55 “St. James Hospital”

40:54 “Looking Down That Lonesome Road”

43:15 “Your Long Journey”

46:16 “Leaving Deep Gap”

48:43 “Down to the Valley to Pray”

50:27 “Doc Loved to Ride”

51:52 “The Train that Carried My Man From Town”