Riding the Midnight Train

Riding the Midnight Train
Studio album by
Released1986
RecordedStudio 19, Nashville, TN
GenreFolk, country blues, bluegrass
Length39:07
LabelSugar Hill
ProducerBarry Poss
Doc Watson chronology
Pickin' the Blues
(1985)
Riding the Midnight Train
(1986)
Portrait
(1987)

Riding the Midnight Train is the title of a recording by American folk music artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1986. It is the last album Merle Watson recorded before he was killed in a tractor accident.

At the Grammy Awards of 1987, Riding the Midnight Train won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Guests include Béla Fleck, Sam Bush and Mark O'Connor.

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