Doc Watson - 1991 - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

Doc Watson - 1991 - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down. Kirk Sutphin on fiddle and Mike Seeger on banjo.
You may have heard the Flatt & Scruggs bluegrass version of this song.
Doc is singing and playing it here like Charlie Poole did it... he called it the "Don't let your deal go down blues" and recorded it July 27, 1925.

[@Wificationish]

Yeee boi

[@KennethWilliamElkington]

Nuthin' but pure... straight-ahead, traditional old-time music. Doc and the boys hooked this one up real nice... !

[@tdotlifer]

Doc started out as a Rockabilly artist. I'm glad he was steered toward Old Timey music.

[@williamboyle5041]

Doc and Mike Seeger? It doesn't get any better than that!

[@andreapage3385]

And a very young Kirk Sutphin!

[@rogerjenkins604]

@@andreapage3385 That's how it gets better!!!! :)

[@OriginalRitz]

"who's gonna shoe your pretty little foot?" etc...
these lyrics are everywhere! ever need a verse for an old-time song, just sing the words of "i truly understand you love another man"

[@paschal421]

charlie poole is another story....but doc is the man,my song for the heart of sat nite...don't let your deal go down....

[@ragtimeD]

This was the first record Doc ever heard - Charlie Poole singing "don't let your deal go down". I'm glad it wasn't some lame pop thing by Rudy Valley - it might have changed the history of American music. Doc is one reason I'm proud to be an American.

[@ecollins]

Wow!!! ❤️

[@ggail6]

This is the real deal folks!

[@xgilxx]

great song.

[@thekingoffunnyfaces]

RIP Doc

[@MrMKH2010]

MitchellWilsonMusic: Charlie Poole played what ended up being Bluegrass. This song, recorded in 1925, sold 102,000 records! There were only an estimated 600,000 record players in the country back then.

[@johnholland723]

Take her home,boys

[@TheZachKelly]

I'm distantly related to Charlie Poole and the family says the guy was crazy as hell haha

[@LeeDixFreeman4]

Charlie Poole taught my great grandfather Dix Freeman to play clawhammer down banjo

[@sampson623]

Do you remember anything you were told about him?

[@nedodge0506]

this was the first bluegrass hit in 1925,by charlie poole

[@Fozzymaple]

'I Truly Understand...' is practically all floating verses! About the only floating verse it doesn't have is eighteen pound of meat a week, but even that's usable in there.

[@SirCoughsalot]

What was this from?