Lonesome Road is the title of a recording by Doc Watson

Doc Watson

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...

 and Merle Watson, released in 1977.

Lonesome Road is out-of-print and was re-issued on CD in 1998 by BGO Records. It was also released in 2002 by Southern Music packaged with Look Away

Look Away

"Look Away" is the name of a 1989 #1 Billboard Hot 100 Chart hit written by Diane Warren. It was recorded by the band Chicago for their 1988 album Chicago 19, with Bill Champlin singing lead vocals. When released as a single that year, the song proved successful, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for...

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Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jim Worbois wrote of the album "Doc does the country blues as well as anything else he does and this record is filled with some fine performances."

Track listing

1. "I Recall a Gypsy Woman" (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds
   Allen Reynolds
   Allen Reynolds is an American record producer and songwriter who works primarily in the country music field.Reynolds was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas and started writing songs during his college years...
   
   ) – 3:49
2. "Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 2:58
3. "Mean Mama Blues" (Ernest Tubb
   Ernest Tubb
   Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
   
   ) – 2:51
4. "Look up Look Down That Lonesome Road" (Traditional) – 4:02
5. "My Creole Belle" (J. Bodewalt Lampe
   J. Bodewalt Lampe
   Jens Bodewalt Lampe was a Danish-born American composer, arranger, performer and band-leader of ragtime and syncopated dance music. With the exception of Scott Joplin, Lampe was possibly the most famous composer of ragtime songs of the early-20th century.Lampe was born in Ribe, Denmark to...
   
   ) – 2:42
6. "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore
   The Delmore Brothers
   Alton Delmore and Rabon Delmore , billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s...
   
   ) – 2:18
7. "Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Traditional) – 2:45
8. "Stone Wall (Around My Heart)" (Pat Twitty) – 3:26
9. "I Ain't Going Honky-Tonkn' Anymore" (Ernest Tubb) – 3:02
10. "Broomstraw Philosophers and Scuppernong Wine" (Larry John Wilson) – 3:17

Personnel

• Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Merle Watson – guitar, dobro, slide guitar
• T. Michael Coleman – bass
• Bob Wilson – piano
• Karl Himmel – drums, percussion