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Then and Now (Doc Watson album)

Then and Now
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Studio album by Doc Watson, Merle Watson
Released 1973
Recorded 1972 at Jack Clement Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre Folk, blues
Length 27:08
Label Tomato
Producer Jack Clement
Doc Watson chronology
The Elementary Doctor Watson!
(1972)
Then and Now
(1973)
The Essential Doc Watson
(1973)
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Allmusic 4/5 stars

Then and Now is the title of a studio album by American country music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1973.

At the Grammy Awards of 1974, this father and son collaboration won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording.

Sugar Hill records re-issued versions — that excluded some tracks — of both Then and Now and Two Days in November in 1994. BGO Records released both with additional tracks from The Elementary Doctor Watson! in 2002.

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Lindsay Palmer called the Watsons' style an "inimitable blend of acoustic folk and traditional country" and wrote "Their somewhat stylized selection of material is derived not only from the traditional genres, but also from the Watsons' native southeastern United States and its rich Piedmont blues heritage. The results are uniformly brilliant..."


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