For a partial list of recordings, we could start with:

Atkins, Chet and Doc Watson

SUG 3896, Reflections, $12.98

What can I say? Two of the best guitarists of our time.

Dill Pickle Rag ~ Me And Chet Made A Record ~ Flatt Did It ~ Medley: Tennessee Rag/Beaumont Rag ~ Medley: Texas Gales/Old Joe Clark ~ You're Gonna Be Sorry ~ Goodnight Waltz ~ Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder ~ Medley: Black And White/Ragtime Annie ~ On My Way To Canaan's Land

Watson, Doc

VAN 6576, Ballads From Deep Gap, $12.98

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms ~ My Rough and Rowdy Ways ~ The Wreck of Old Number 9 ~ Gambler's Yodel ~ The Cuckoo ~ Stack O'Lee ~ Willie Moore ~ Travellin' Man ~ The Tragic Romance ~ Texas Gales ~ The Lawson Family Murder ~ Alabama Bound

VEST 13026, Legends of Old Time Music, $22.49

VIDEO Celebrated as the wellspring of bluegrass and country, old time music is a richly exciting genre in its own right. Steeped in Anglo-Celtic roots and nourished by New World experience and encounters with African-Americans, at once personal and communal, free-spirited and conservative, old time music expresses Southern folklore and lifestyles which have largely passed into history. Some of its greatest practitioners have been preserved and are collected on this video. The full range of this archetypally American music, from its British roots ("The Four Marys") to its `high lonesome' Kentucky branches (Roscoe Holcomb), is explored via voices, guitars, fiddles, banjos, and a dulcimer in rare footage capturing the essence of Appalachian American folk music at its purest and best. Artists include: Tommy Jarrell, Roscoe Holcombe, Sam McGee, Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, Marion Sumner and others.

VEST 13004, Legends of Traditional Fingerstyle Guitar, $22.49

VIDEO With Rev. Gary Davis (one song), Merle Travis (three songs), Elizabeth Cotten (four songs), Doc Watson (two songs), Doc & Merle Watson (three songs), Sam & Kirk McGee (three songs), Mance Lipscomb (two songs), Roscoe Holcomb (one song), Josh White (one song) and Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry (one song). Traditional fingerstyle guitar is particular to its time and place, drawing heavily upon local culture, but allowing for personal expression and innovation. By the time regional representation of rural black and white music began appearing on record, the guitar had become (in most places) the premier instrument for its versatility and its expressiveness. While songs such as "John Henry," "Casey Jones" and "Sitting on Top of the World" became standards almost upon their inception, the manner in which they were played varied from place to place (two radically different -- yet still traditional -- versions of "John Henry" by Merle Travis and Josh White appear in this video to illustrate this). These artists are all masters of the fingerstyle guitar, whether using two or three finger picking, with or without picks. They fashioned a deeply influential playing style created from the rags, blues, ballads, and native airs that permeated their times and give impetus to any musician, knowingly or not, who picks a string today.

VEST 13023, Rare Performances 1963-1981, $22.49

VIDEO The world of American folk music was immediately enriched by the discovery of North Carolina's Doc Watson in 1960. He arrived in time to play an active role in the then-booming folk revival, where he showed a generation of guitarists how to play traditional music with fresh drive and imagination. This collection illustrates the power and range of Doc's talents and the evolution of this performance style. The tapestry of sounds Doc wove during his first two decades performing outside North Carolina unfolds in these enduring and inspiring performances.

SUG 2839, Songs From The Southern Mountains, $13.98

Rye Cove ~ Twilight is Stealing ~ Fisher's Hornpipe ~ Blue Yodel #7 ~ A Tiny Broken Heart ~ Honey Babe Blues ~ Brown's Dream ~ When The Roll is Called Up Yonder ~ My Little Woman, You're So Sweet ~ Will My Mother Know Me There ~ Go Shoot Old Davey Dugger ~ My Wandering Boy ~ Somebody Touched Me ~ Grandfather's Clock ~ Lonely Tombs ~ Just A Friend

SF 40012, The Doc Watson Family, $13.98

Reissue of Folkways 2366 from 1963, with previously unreleased tracks. Compiled by Jeff Place and Ralph Rinzler with assistance from Mike Seeger

Ground Hog~ Every Day Dirt ~ Bonaparte's Retreat ~ The House Carpenter ~ I'm Troubled ~ Your Long Journey ~ When I Die ~ That Train That Carried My Girl From Town ~ Down the Road ~ The Lone Pilgrim ~ Texas Gales/Blackberry Rag ~ Darling Corey ~ The Triplett Tragedy ~ Muddy Roads ~ The Lost Soul ~ Keep in the Middle of the Road ~ The Old Man Below ~ Pretty Saro ~ Cousin Sally Brown ~ Look Down That Lonesome Road ~ Doodle Bug~ Rambling Hobo ~ The Cuckoo Bird ~ Frosty Morn ~ Shady Grove ~ Southbound

VAN 45, The Essential Doc Watson, $12.98

Tom Dooley ~ Alberta ~ Froggie Went A-Courtin' ~ Beaumont Rag ~ St. James Hospital ~ Muskrat ~ Down In The Valley To Pray ~ Blue Railroad Train ~ Rising Sun Blues ~ Shady Grove ~ My Rough & Rowdy Ways ~ Train That Carried My Girl ~ Black Mountain Rag ~ I Was A Stranger ~ Blueridge Mountain Blues ~ Country Blues ~ Groundhog ~ Little Orphan Girl ~ Blackberry Blossom ~ Going Down This Road Feeling Bad ~ Rambling Hobo ~ Little Omie Wise ~ Handsome Molly ~ Whitehouse Blues ~I Want To Love Him More ~ Way Downtown

VAN 155, The Vanguard Years , 4 Cd Set, $49.98

"Discovered" in the heat of the sixties folk revival, Doc Watson is a legendary performer who blends his traditional Appalachian folk music roots with blues, country, gospel, and bluegrass to infancy, Doc has spent his lifetime making music and is considered by fans everywhere one of the world's most accomplished flat-pickers. - from the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Disc One

create his unique style and expansive repertoire. Blind from Rambling Hobo ~ Train That Carried My Girl From Town ~ The Coo Coo ~ Reuben's Train ~ Hick's Farewell ~ Grandfather's Clock ~ Beaumont Rag ~ Farewell Blues ~ Footprints in the Snow ~ Intoxicated Rat ~ Talk About Suffering ~ Omie Wise ~ Country blues ~ Black Mountain Rag ~ Doc's Guitar ~ Deep River Blues

DISC TWO

Muskrat ~ Dream of the Miner's Child ~ Rising Sun Blues ~ Otto Wood The Bandit ~ Little Sadie ~ Windy and Warm ~ Tennessee Stud ~ Blue Railroad Train ~ Down in the Valley to Pray ~ Dill Pickle Rag ~ The F.F.V. ~ Childhood Play ~ Streamline Cannonball ~ Old Camp Meeting Time ~ I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes ~ The Girl in the blue Velvet Band

DISC THREE

New River Train ~ Rank Stranger ~ Corrina, Corrina ~ What Does the Deep Sea Say ~ There's More Pretty Girls Than One ~ Way Downtown ~ Brown's Ferry Blues ~ Spike Driver Blues ~ Roll On Buddy ~ I Am a Pilgrim ~ Wabash Cannonball ~ Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms ~ The Lawson Family Murder ~ The Cuckoo

DISC Four

Alabama Bound ~ Bye Bye Bluebells ~ Kinfolks in Carolina ~ San Antonio Rose ~ Bow Your Whistle Freight Train ~ Cannonball Rag ~ I Am A Pilgrim ~ Arrangement Blues ~ I Got a Pig At Home in the Pen ~ My Rough and Rowdy Ways ~ Deep River Blues ~ Banks of the Ohio ~ A-Roving on a Cold Winter's Night ~ Southbound ~ Memphis Blues ~ Salt Creek / Bill Cheatham ~ Brown's Ferry Blues ~ Windy and Warm

THough, for that matter, I'd gladly pay to hear Doc sing the Staten Island phone book.

(PS) All available at CAMSCO