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Not so well known are several non-commercial recordings of Watson from the 1950s, some of which were recently published on the CD set, Milestones, brought out by his daughter, Nancy Watson. There is at least one even earlier acetate disc of Watson from 1941 now at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. During the 1950s, Watson was involved in contemporary commercial country, rockabilly, and western swing music. Contrary to his later image, he was regarded by locals as a guitarist, not a multi-instrumentalist, and was associated with a gold-top Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. Yet just months after meeting Rinzler, Watson was on the folk revival circuit playing acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica, and singing in an exclusively folk style. My paper will analyze Watson's recordings, pre- and post-folk revival, to show his selfconscious decision to reinvent himself as a folk artist, a logical step for someone from his background, but a reinvention nevertheless. I will highlight recordings of Watson and the professional artists who inspired him, contrasting his work with the later repertoire and musical choices he made for a far different audience. I hope to show how a true folk musician was able to adjust to changing commercial tastes in both popular and folk music traditions, at the start of a career which spanned many genres and decades.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThe recordings of North Carolina native Arthel \"Doc\" Watson (1923-2012) since his discovery by Ralph Rinzler in 1960 are well-known and a core repertoire of the Folk Revival. Not so well known are several non-commercial recordings of Watson from the 1950s, some of which were recently published on the CD set, Milestones, brought out by his daughter, Nancy Watson. There is at least one even earlier acetate disc of Watson from 1941 now at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. During the 1950s, Watson was involved in contemporary commercial country, rockabilly, and western swing music. Contrary to his later image, he was regarded by locals as a guitarist, not a multi-instrumentalist, and was associated with a gold-top Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. Yet just months after meeting Rinzler, Watson was on the folk revival circuit playing acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica, and singing in an exclusively folk style. My paper will analyze Watson's recordings, pre- and post-folk revival, to show his selfconscious decision to reinvent himself as a folk artist, a logical step for someone from his background, but a reinvention nevertheless. I will highlight recordings of Watson and the professional artists who inspired him, contrasting his work with the later repertoire and musical choices he made for a far different audience. I hope to show how a true folk musician was able to adjust to changing commercial tastes in both popular and folk music traditions, at the start of a career which spanned many genres and decades.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/121/841/small/ARSC_conf_2014_Boye_video_thmb.jpg?1675809787","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/121841","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - open-uri20210822-32762-1dqgdq7.mp4"]},"duration":2111.25333,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/121/841/small/ARSC_conf_2014_Boye_video_thmb.jpg?1675809787","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/121841/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/121841/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/121/841/original/open-uri20210822-32762-1dqgdq7.mp4?1629596190","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2111.25333,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/121841","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/255399","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2014_Boye_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2104.26819,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/255399/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/255399/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/399/original/ARSC_conf_2014_Boye_audio.mp3?1730513407","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2104.26819,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48817/file/255399","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}