The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30987   Message #2420245
Posted By: Jayto
22-Aug-08 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: Doc Watson
Subject: RE: Doc Watson
Dale that would be fine. What place are you talking about because if there will be a discussion about Doc I want to read it. I am a hardcore Doc Watson fan. I would love to read any stories about him. Everytime my brother and i back up somone they always bill us as the Rounders. Normally they will put thier name and then "and The Rounders or Dirty Rounders" That started years ago. I put a band together after I parted with another band I started. My other band was signed with Decca Records and I didnt like the direction and alot of more junk. Anyway I was riding around out in the country back up in Kentucky. I had Doc on the radio and the line "Dinners on the table and the coffee's getting cold but some dirty rounder stole my jelly roll." came through the speakers. Right then I decided to call my new band The Dirty Rounders. We got a huge following in the underground folk/americana scene in west Kentucky and northeast Tennessee. The band constisted of my brother, another friend of mine, and me. We vowed to keep playing until it lost it's spark for us and then no matter how good things were going we would quit. We lived up to our words when the spark for us left we disbanded. The name though has stuck. The people that followed us around and filled up the clubs shrotened it to The Rounders. So to this day people still refer to me and my brother as The Rounders. That all came from a Doc Watson song. I know it probably wasn't Doc's song originally but to me it is his song because man he owned it.