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Reading and Performance at Scuppernong Books on December 27, 2024
The Charge: Poems Remembering Doc Watson and the Watson Family” by John Thomas York
Published by Redhawk Publications
Read by John Thomas York and Janet Speer with additional narration read by Allen Speer
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”
