Folk Heroes- Richard Arnold Beattie-Doc and Meryl Watson part 2

Denver Folklore Center April 1977

In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Welcome to Folk Heroes, the music program that features the artists and players when they roam the earth somewhere around here. I'm your host and neighbor, Richard Arnold Vitti, and we're about to embark on a hay fever special with Doc and Murray Watson, Hot Rise, and my favorite, many, many more. To the best of our knowledge, this is somewhere between 1972 to 1976. We're still trying to figure that out. I have a note into Harry Tuft. Putting it 15 some years ago, and there will be a lot of special guests. The opening act, Hot Rise. Take a listen.

SPEAKER_09 0:54

Right when you get work.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

Now Charles is going to sing one. Oh yeah. We were just kidding about what Charles. Yeah, it's a nice guitar, but it looks like uh it's kind of old.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

And they're gonna join them later on. You'll be very pleased. I can promise you, but they've had to uh practice a little bit together to get them set together, so it's taken a little while, but I promise you there'll be still the same length of show, and you'll be very happy to see uh these extra folks out on the stage. So they're just about out of the way.

SPEAKER_04 9:59

Let's make him welcome. And that old boy over there on the end is a pretty good friend of mine, too. He's my son Merle. Let's make him welcome. Michael, I'm gonna see if we can do a little bit of that in awesome road and make everybody cry. My father-in-law, I get out of the food here. My father-in-law was one of the fine old time fellows that I had the privilege of playing music with when I was growing up. And he knew a bunch of them good old time songs, some of those songs that were sort of four-handed. The best of friend must part sometime, and why not you and my life, and why not you and I the longest train I ever saw when Georgia my love when Georgia and the only girl I ever love is on that train and gone my love is on that train and gone the darkest night that I ever saw was the day that I left my home, my love was the day that I left my home and I never thought when we first met this awful day would come my love. This awful day would come. Look up look down that long some road. Hang down your little head and cry my love. Hang down your little head and cry for the best of friends must part sometime and why not you and I love and why not you and I'm gonna humanity. Would you come to me? Would you come to me like each my day? If you needed me, I would come to you. I dwell each for the each or the nights for long, here the morning's more, but the morning chines with the light of love, you will miss the sunrise if you close your eyes, and that will break my heart and do. But if I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me love and eat my faith? If you needed me, I would come to you. I'm being for the each other's with me now. Since love should I have to lay her lily hand in mind? Surely you will agree. And treasure in the for a man to find. But if I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me my baby? If you needed me, I would come to you. I twin the beach, party job. Yes, I twenty party job. Don't stop cry. What? Don't stop crying. No, no, no, that's all the program. Okay, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_10 19:24

Uh that's not so bad.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

Um let's do a little bit of the nine-pound hammer right here. How about that? Change the pace of the program back to the country flavor, and then I might do another flat pick unit a minute. I wonder if there's anybody here in the house that's ever been back in a coal mine. I bet you ain't nobody ever been back in one of them in the tunnels about a half a mile back under. Oh, I bet somebody's been in a coal mine, yeah. Cotton mine. Well, anyway, imagine being back under the hill about a half a mile in a in a tunnel with a four-foot ceiling, trying to drive four-inch steel spikes and hard black oak ties so they can run the coal out of that mine, you know, in the little car. And you get the air is a foul, you can't hardly breathe, and you can't even rest up raise up and rest your poor old leg in the back. Ain't coming back, Lord Lord, I ain't coming back, and it's a long way to Harley, a long way to hazard. Just to get a little brood, Lord God, just to get a little brood. Roll buddy, pull a load of gold. I'll give a pull my hair when the wheel rolls, huh? You can take my hammer, but it's to the captain, and tell him I'm gone, yes, man. You can tell him I'm gone. And if he has to go, where I'm gone, tell him you don't know, no man, buddy, you don't know. Roll, buddy, follow the go. I'll give a boat when the wheel roll roll. There I need another hammer. Round the top table. That'll ring like mine. But that'll ring like mine. But the nine on hammer. Don't kill John Henry. Ain't gonna kill me. No, no, don't wanna let it kill me. Oh, no, go. I'll get a boat. When a wheel roll roll. Oh, yeah. From a side. Remember the form of sign. Rombody and make your time. I dunno broke down and came back. We're presently working on a new album that we'll reconnect.

SPEAKER_06 27:43

When the police will come. Oh, sweet mama, daddy got the big bullet blue. Oh, sweet mama, daddy got the beep up Now if you gotta bell, put your mud in your pants. Oh sweet mama, daddy got them beat belt. Hosting mama, daddy got them beat belt. Oh sea, what you made your sucks. Oh, si mama, deli up the mama, delay, beep. Oh, si mama, daddy got the bill.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

We got a prison tune here. It's called 99 years in one dark day. This is on my record, which you can get out in the lobby on the break, uh in this prison twenty years ago.

SPEAKER_06 30:30

Shut my woman with a phone. I'll be right here. In the bed and heart, spin all day breaking rocks in the yard. A nut chair, come see that way. Didn't learn to write my whole life in one big fight. I never heard other wretches we'd like it one dark day. Gonna sing no song. It's the warning, but I ain't wrong is my bad up here. I've been in this prison twenty years ago. Shot my woman with a blue. I'll be right here. One dark day.

unknown 32:50

One dark day.

SPEAKER_06 38:17

From now on, that's what I'm gonna be, and I ruined your sea. Oh baby, to your little tent I'm gonna creep. All the star that shine above They're gonna lie our way to love. We'll rule this land, you and me. Cause I'm the sheep of Arabie.

SPEAKER_05 41:46

For to leave you, love. I'm gonna wait for a while, but I'll return to you sometime if I go ten thousand miles.

SPEAKER_06 41:59

The storms are on the ocean, the heavens may cease to be.

SPEAKER_05 42:07

This world may lose its motion love if I prove false to be now who will show your pretty little foot, who will glove your hand? And who's gonna kiss your rosy cheeks when I'm in a far-off land?

SPEAKER_06 42:43

The storms are on the ocean, the heaven may cease to be.

SPEAKER_09 44:12

Yeah, this is uh part of the show where Mike and I quit. And these two guys get to play the fiddle and the banjo together, so about that old man Tucker that's the old man.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

Well, a brief and casual intermission. Hot Rise, Doc Emerald Watson, all at the Denver Folkworth Center, like it's just like a bluegrass festival, isn't it? As it's happening right here at Bluff Park, July 9th through 12th, Dry Branch Fire Squad, the Gibson Brothers, Kaya Cater, the Seldom Scene, Ralph Stanley, 2, or the second, Heidi Clare, and Ron Thomason, and as we were saying before, many, many more. You're listening to Folk Heroes on KLZR Community Radio. I'm Richard Arnold B.

SPEAKER_04 48:54

Don't need no whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

Hot Rise opened for Dr. Pearl Watson at the Denver Folklore Center. The Bluegrass band used that recording to launch their careers together with original members Pete Wernick, Dr. Banjo, the late great Carl Contell, who uh switched the classic guitar, but with the big player at the time, he replaced he uh actually replaced Mike Scabb, the late Mike Scapp, who left the band shortly after April, and was replaced by David McDorsto, the originator of the radio program ECO, and Kim O'Brien, the classic man website. History was being made that day, and uh next week, more from Doc and Mo Watson, and a preview of the Mountain A Beaver Festival right here in what's good. Uh Folk Heroes in our midst! I'm returning to Petey, and yes, I am Mrs. Beatty's husband at Music Mountain Instrument. Folk Heroes is in cooperation with the Haver Sub Collection at the University of Colorado. The theme music is Music Mountain featuring David Metch on harmonica, the late David Metch, and yours truly on guitar. I wrote the tune for Rocky Mountain Legacy on Rocky Mount PBS for the 96th and 97th for the documentary series. And thanks for being there at Walking the Saint Ground last week with Dick Jones. I I certainly enjoyed it, and it was good to see you all. See around town and remember, it's 35 miles an hour on Main Street. Imagine two cliffs holding books. One is silver, the other is holding up the west cliff side.