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Artists covered by Doc Watson

Artist Song Performances
1 [traditional] 260
2 Jimmie Rodgers 72
3 The Carter Family 24
  The Delmore Brothers 24
5 Jimmy Driftwood 23
  Curly Fox 23
  George Gershwin 23
8 Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys 21
9 Kokomo Arnold 20
10 Grandpa Jones 19
11 Jack Lawrence 18
12 Chet Atkins 16
13 Ben Bernie’s Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra 15
14 Bo Carter 13
  Sippie Wallace 13
16 Mississippi John Hurt 11
  Tom Paxton 11
  Merle Travis 11
19 Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys 10
20 Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys 9
  Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers 9
  Allen Reynolds 9
  The Doc Watson Family 9
24 Mississippi Sheiks 8
25 Arthur Smith Trio 7
  Bob Dylan 7
  John Prine 7
28 Johnny Cash 6
  The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience 6
  William Shakespeare Hays 6
  Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys 6
  The Oak Ridge Boys 6
33 Fred F. Hamm 5
  Blind Lemon Jefferson 5
  Virginia Liston 5
36 The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle 4
  Daniel Decatur Emmett 4
  Red Foley 4
  The Moody Blues 4
  Sonny Land Trio 4
  Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 4
42 The Band 3
  The Carolina Buddies 3
  Blind Boy Fuller 3
  Merle Haggard 3
  Herbert Lawson 3
  The Monroe Brothers 3
  John Newton 3
  Carson Robison 3
  Big Joe Turner & His Blues Kings 3
  Henry Whitter 3
  Willy and Ruth 3
53 Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys 2
  Josiah Kelly Alwood 2
  Cannon’s Jug Stompers 2
  Thomas A. Dorsey 2
  L. Wolfe Gilbert 2
  Papa Charlie Jackson 2
  Little Richard 2
  Rick Nelson 2
  Joseph Knecht's Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra 2
  Carl Perkins 2
  Joseph Medlicott Scriven 2
  Bessie Smith 2
  The Three Stripped Gears 2
  Mel Tillis 2
  Charles Albert Tindley 2
  Tex Williams 2
  Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 2
70 Count Basie and His Orchestra 1
  Big Maybelle 1
  James Milton Black 1
  Bill Browning and His Echo Valley Boys 1
  Jerry Douglas 1
  Woody Guthrie 1
  Lawrence Hammond 1
  Tim Hardin 1
  Lynn Howard 1
  The Impressions 1
  Skip James 1
  Karl and Harty 1
  Alfred G. Karnes 1
  Kris Kristofferson 1
  Hank Locklin 1
  Johnny Mathis 1
  Bill Monroe 1
  Tim O’Brien 1
  Old & In the Way 1
  Tex Owens 1
  Utah Phillips 1
  Elvis Presley 1
  ‘Ma’ Rainey & Her Georgia Jazz Band 1
  Jimmy Reed 1
  John Stafford Smith & Francis Scott Key 1
  The Stanley Brothers 1
  Ernest Tubb 1
  Townes Van Zandt 1
  Doc & Merle Watson 1
  George P. Watson 1
  Chase Webster 1
  Big Joe Williams 1
  Henry Clay Work 1

Songs played total

This table lists how often a song was performed. Multiple performances from the same setlist are also counted towards the total.

Song Song Performances
1 Deep River Blues ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 26
2 Way Downtown ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 25
3 Shady Grove ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 24
4 Black Mountain Rag (Curly Fox cover) Play Video stats 23
  Summertime (George Gershwin cover) Play Video stats 23
  Tennessee Stud (Jimmy Driftwood cover) Play Video stats 23
7 Milk Cow Blues (Kokomo Arnold cover) Play Video stats 20
8 Make Me a Pallet on the Floor ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 18
  Ten Miles to Deep Gap (Jack Lawrence cover) Play Video stats 18
10 Cora Is Gone (Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys cover) Play Video stats 15
  East Bound Freight Train (Grandpa Jones cover) Play Video stats 15
  In the Jailhouse Now (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 15
  Sweet Georgia Brown (Ben Bernie’s Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra cover) Play Video stats 15
  Windy and Warm (Chet Atkins cover) Play Video stats 15
15 Corrine Corrina (Bo Carter cover) Play Video stats 13
  St. James Infirmary Blues ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 13
  Stranger's Blues (Sippie Wallace cover) Play Video stats 13
18 Brown's Ferry Blues (The Delmore Brothers cover) Play Video stats 11
19 I Am a Pilgrim ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 10
  Keep on the Sunny Side of Life (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 10
  My Blue Eyed Jane (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 10
  Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 10
  Stoney Creek (Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys cover) Play Video stats 10
24 Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 9
  Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It (Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys cover) Play Video stats 9
  Ready for the Times to Get Better (Allen Reynolds cover) Play Video stats 9
  Salt Creek (The Doc Watson Family song) Play Video stats 9
28 Beaumont Rag ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 8
  Hobo Bill's Last Ride (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 8
  Nine Pound Hammer ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 8
  Sitting on Top of the World (Mississippi Sheiks cover) Play Video stats 8
  Wabash Cannonball ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 8
33 Blue Yodel No. 7 (Anniversary Blue Yodel) (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 7
  Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers cover) Play Video stats 7
  Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan cover) Play Video stats 7
  Florida Blues (Arthur Smith Trio cover) Play Video stats 7
  Frankie and Johnny ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 7
  Freight Train Boogie (The Delmore Brothers cover) Play Video stats 7
  Lulu Walls (John Prine cover) Play Video stats 7
  The Train That Carried My Girl From Town ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 7
  Whiskey Before Breakfast ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 7
42 Blue Railroad Train (The Delmore Brothers cover) Play Video stats 6
  Dig a Little Deeper in the Well (The Oak Ridge Boys cover) Play Video stats 6
  Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 6
  I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows (The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience cover) Play Video stats 6
  In the Pines ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 6
  Little Sadie ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 6
  The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane (William Shakespeare Hays cover) Play Video stats 6
  The Storms Are on the Ocean (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 6
50 Billy in the Low Ground ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 5
  Bye Bye Blues (Fred F. Hamm cover) Play Video stats 5
  Columbus Stockade Blues ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 5
  I'm a Natural Born Gamblin' Man (Merle Travis cover) Play Video stats 5
  Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson cover) Play Video stats 5
  Ragtime Annie ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 5
  Spike Driver Blues (Mississippi John Hurt cover) Play Video stats 5
  You Don't Know My Mind Blues (Virginia Liston cover) Play Video stats 5
  You're Not a Drop in the Bucket (Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys cover) Play Video stats 5
59 Dixie (Daniel Decatur Emmett cover) Play Video stats 4
  Eight More Miles to Louisville (Grandpa Jones cover) Play Video stats 4
  He's Solid Gone (The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle cover) Play Video stats 4
  I Got the Freight Train Blues (Red Foley cover) Play Video stats 4
  My Special Angel (Sonny Land Trio cover) Play Video stats 4
  Never No Mo' Blues (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 4
  Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues cover) Play Video stats 4
  Roll On Buddy Roll On (Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys cover) Play Video stats 4
  The House of the Rising Sun ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 4
  Train of Love (Johnny Cash cover) Play Video stats 4
  Walk On (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee cover) Play Video stats 4
70 Amazing Grace (John Newton cover) Play Video stats 3
  Anytime (Herbert Lawson cover) Play Video stats 3
  Blue Smoke (Merle Travis cover) Play Video stats 3
  Did You Hear John Hurt? (Tom Paxton cover) Play Video stats 3
  I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound (Tom Paxton cover) Play Video stats 3
  I've Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied (Mississippi John Hurt cover) Play Video stats 3
  Leaving London (Tom Paxton cover) Play Video stats 3
  Love Me (Willy and Ruth cover) Play Video stats 3
  Mama Don't Allow ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 3
  Open Up Them Pearly Gates (Carson Robison cover) Play Video stats 3
  Otto Wood the Bandit (The Carolina Buddies cover) Play Video stats 3
  Rain Crow Bill (Henry Whitter cover) Play Video stats 3
  Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 3
  Shake, Rattle and Roll (Big Joe Turner & His Blues Kings cover) Play Video stats 3
  Soldier's Joy ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 3
  Step It Up and Go (Blind Boy Fuller cover) Play Video stats 3
  The Cuckoo ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 3
  Three Times Seven (Merle Travis cover) Play Video stats 3
  Train Whistle Blues (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 3
  Up on Cripple Creek (The Band cover) Play Video stats 3
  What Would You Give in Exchange? (The Monroe Brothers cover) Play Video stats 3
  Workin' Man Blues (Merle Haggard cover) Play Video stats 3
92 Alberta ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Bill Cheatham ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Blackberry Rag (The Three Stripped Gears cover) Play Video stats 2
  Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins cover) Play Video stats 2
  Blue Yodel No. 12 (Barefoot Blues) (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 2
  Darling Corey ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Down Yonder (L. Wolfe Gilbert cover) Play Video stats 2
  Foggy Mountain Top (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 2
  Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash cover) Play Video stats 2
  Hand Me Down My Walking Cane ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Handsome Molly ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Jail House Blues (Bessie Smith cover) Play Video stats 2
  Leather Britches ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Little Darling, Pal of Mine (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 2
  Minglewood Blues (Cannon’s Jug Stompers cover) Play Video stats 2
  My Creole Belle (Mississippi John Hurt cover) Play Video stats 2
  New River Train ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Nobody Knows but Me (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 2
  Pretty Saro ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Railroad Bill ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Sally Goodin ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Salty Dog Blues (Papa Charlie Jackson cover) Play Video stats 2
  San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys cover) Play Video stats 2
  Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) (Tex Williams cover) Play Video stats 2
  Stand by Me (Charles Albert Tindley cover) Play Video stats 2
  The Last Thing on My Mind (Tom Paxton cover) Play Video stats 2
  The Sheik of Araby (Joseph Knecht's Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra cover) Play Video stats 2
  The Streamlined Cannon Ball (Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys cover) Play Video stats 2
  There's More Pretty Girls Than One ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 2
  Travelin' Man (Rick Nelson cover) Play Video stats 2
  Tutti Frutti (Little Richard cover) Play Video stats 2
  Uncloudy Day (Josiah Kelly Alwood cover) Play Video stats 2
  Walk On, Boy (Mel Tillis cover) Play Video stats 2
  What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Joseph Medlicott Scriven cover) Play Video stats 2
  When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 2
127 (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) (Thomas A. Dorsey cover) Play Video stats 1
  A Good Woman's Love (Hank Locklin cover) Play Video stats 1
  A Mountaineer Is Always Free (Tim O’Brien cover) Play Video stats 1
  Any Way You Want Me (Elvis Presley cover) Play Video stats 1
  Banks of the Ohio ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys cover) Play Video stats 1
  Boil Them Cabbage Down ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed cover) Play Video stats 1
  Bury Me Beneath the Willow ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Careless Love ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Cattle Call (Tex Owens cover) Play Video stats 1
  Chawing Chewing Gum (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 1
  Cypress Grove Blues (Skip James cover) Play Video stats 1
  Dark Hollow (Bill Browning and His Echo Valley Boys cover) Play Video stats 1
  Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder When I'm Gone (Karl and Harty cover) Play Video stats 1
  Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky (Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys cover) Play Video stats 1
  Fisher's Hornpipe ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  For the Good Times (Kris Kristofferson cover) Play Video stats 1
  Frankie and Albert ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  George Gudger's Overalls (Lawrence Hammond cover) Play Video stats 1
  Glory, Glory ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Goin' to Chicago Blues (Count Basie and His Orchestra cover) Play Video stats 1
  Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Gypsy Woman (The Impressions cover) Play Video stats 1
  Hop High Ladies the Cake's All Dough ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  I Wish I Was Single Again ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  If I Were a Carpenter (Tim Hardin cover) Play Video stats 1
  John Henry ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  June Apple ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Little Margaret ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Little Stream of Whiskey ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Liza Jane ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Long Journey Home (The Stanley Brothers cover) Play Video stats 1
  Mean Mama Blues (Ernest Tubb cover) Play Video stats 1
  Midnight Moonlight (Old & In the Way cover) Play Video stats 1
  Midnight on the Stormy Deep ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Miss the Mississippi and You (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 1
  Moody River (Chase Webster cover) Play Video stats 1
  My Dear Old Southern Home (Jimmie Rodgers cover) Play Video stats 1
  My Grandfather's Clock (Henry Clay Work cover) Play Video stats 1
  Nancy Rowland ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  No Telephone in Heaven (The Carter Family cover) Play Video stats 1
  Oh by Jingo! (Chet Atkins cover) Play Video stats 1
  Old Dan Tucker ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Paddy on the Turnpike ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Patrick Meets the Brickbats (Jerry Douglas cover) Play Video stats 1
  Please Love Me (Doc & Merle Watson song) Play Video stats 1
  Rambling Hobo ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Rock Salt & Nails (Utah Phillips cover) Play Video stats 1
  See See Rider Blues (‘Ma’ Rainey & Her Georgia Jazz Band cover) Play Video stats 1
  Sheep in the Meadow / Stoney Fork ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Sleep, Baby, Sleep (George P. Watson cover) Play Video stats 1
  Sliding Delta (Mississippi John Hurt cover) Play Video stats 1
  Sweet Heaven When I Die ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Take My Hand, Precious Lord (Thomas A. Dorsey cover) Play Video stats 1
  The Arkansas Traveler ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  The Star-Spangled Banner (John Stafford Smith & Francis Scott Key cover) Play Video stats 1
  The Twelfth of Never (Johnny Mathis cover) Play Video stats 1
  Tom Dooley ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Used to Be (Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys cover) Play Video stats 1
  Wagoner's Lad ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  Walkin' After Midnight (Lynn Howard cover) Play Video stats 1
  Watson Blues (Bill Monroe cover) Play Video stats 1
  We Shall All Be Reunited (Alfred G. Karnes cover) Play Video stats 1
  What Is Home Without Love (Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers cover) Play Video stats 1
  When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (James Milton Black cover) Play Video stats 1
  Where Did You Sleep Last Night? ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1
  White Freight Liner Blues (Townes Van Zandt cover) Play Video stats 1
  White House Blues (Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers cover) Play Video stats 1
  Who's Been Foolin' You (Big Joe Williams cover) Play Video stats 1
  Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Woody Guthrie cover) Play Video stats 1
  Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Big Maybelle cover) Play Video stats 1
  Worried Man Blues ([traditional] cover) Play Video stats 1