Look Away!

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Field	Value
name	Look Away!
type	studio album
artist	Doc Watson and Merle Watson
cover	LookAwayWatson.jpg
released	1978
recorded	January–February 1978
studio	The Sound Shop, Nashville, TN
genre	Folk, blues
length	28:29
label	United Artists
producer	Mitch Greenhill, Merle Watson
chronology	Doc Watson
prev_title	Tradition
prev_year	1977
next_title	Live and Pickin'
next_year	1979
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| name = Look Away! | type = studio album | artist = Doc Watson and Merle Watson | cover = LookAwayWatson.jpg | alt = | released = 1978 | recorded = January–February 1978 | venue = | studio = The Sound Shop, Nashville, TN | genre = Folk, blues | length = 28:29 | label = United Artists | producer = Mitch Greenhill, Merle Watson | chronology = Doc Watson | prev_title = Tradition | prev_year = 1977 | next_title = Live and Pickin' | next_year = 1979

Look Away! is the title of a recording by Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1978.

Look Away! is out-of-print and was re-issued on CD in 2002 by Southern Music packaged with Lonesome Road!.

Reception

| rev1 =Allmusic | rev1Score =
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Allan wrote of the album "No album by this wonderful picker and his equally adept son could be without merit, although the material is not as consistently strong as they deserve."

Track listing

1. "Florida Blues" (Traditional) – 1:45
2. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 2:47
3. "My Love Come Rolling Down" (Eric Von Schmidt) – 3:29
4. "Gypsy Davie" (Traditional) – 3:25
5. "'Rangement Blues" (Traditional) – 2:51
6. "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (Jenny Lou Carson) – 2:06
7. "Blues in My Mind" (Fred Rose) – 2:27
8. "It's a Crazy World" (Mac McAnally) – 2:41
9. "Under the Double Eagle" (Traditional) – 2:26
10. "God Holds the Future" (Traditional) – 2:53
11. "Dixie" (Traditional) – 1:35
12. :Additional tracks on the Southern Music release:
13. "New Born King" – 3:01
14. "Peace in the Valley" (Thomas A. Dorsey) – 3:02

Personnel

• Doc Watson – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Merle Watson – guitar, dobro
• T. Michael Coleman – bass, background vocals
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle
• Gene Scrivenor – harmonica
• Jim Isbell – drums, percussion
• Marcia Routh – background vocals
• Lisa Silver – background vocals
• Pebble Daniel – background vocals

References

References

1. [{{AllMusic
2. Allan, Mark. "''Look Away!'' > Review". [[Allmusic]].

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