Look Away! Explained

Look Away!
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Doc Watson and Merle Watson
Cover:	LookAwayWatson.jpg
Released:	1978
Recorded:	January–February 1978
Studio:	The Sound Shop, Nashville, TN
Genre:	Folk, blues
Length:	28:29
Label:	United Artists
Producer:	Mitch Greenhill, Merle Watson
Chronology:	Doc Watson
Prev Title:	Tradition
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Live and Pickin'
Next Year:	1979

Look Away! is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1978.

Look Away! is out-of-print and was re-issued on CD in 2002 by Southern Music packaged with Lonesome Road!.^[1]

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Allan wrote of the album "No album by this wonderful picker and his equally adept son could be without merit, although the material is not as consistently strong as they deserve."

Track listing

1. "Florida Blues" (Traditional) – 1:45
2. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 2:47
3. "My Love Come Rolling Down" (Eric Von Schmidt) – 3:29
4. "Gypsy Davie" (Traditional) – 3:25
5. "'Rangement Blues" (Traditional) – 2:51
6. "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (Jenny Lou Carson) – 2:06
7. "Blues in My Mind" (Fred Rose) – 2:27
8. "It's a Crazy World" (Mac McAnally) – 2:41
9. "Under the Double Eagle" (Traditional) – 2:26
10. "God Holds the Future" (Traditional) – 2:53
11. "Dixie" (Traditional) – 1:35

Additional tracks on the Southern Music release:

1. "New Born King" – 3:01
2. "Peace in the Valley" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 3:02

Personnel

• Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Merle Watson – guitar, dobro
• T. Michael Coleman – bass, background vocals
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle
• Gene Scrivenor – harmonica
• Jim Isbell – drums, percussion
• Marcia Routh – background vocals
• Lisa Silver – background vocals
• Pebble Daniel – background vocals

External links

• Doc Watson discography

Notes and References

1. Allmusic entry for Lonesome Road/Look Away!