Life's Work: A Retrospective

Life's Work: A Retrospective is a four-CD box set of 101 tracks from Craft Recordings (CR00171), with an 88-page book and liner notes by Ted Olson, who compiled it. The digital release was on November 12, 2021; Bluegrass Today says CDs followed on December 1 and The Second Disc says December 3. Disc three holds 25 tracks, among them "Wake Up, Little Maggie", "Peartree", "Shady Grove" (2:40), "Miss the Mississippi and You" and "Steel Guitar Rag", in an order that mirrors the 1975 album Memories. Olson's notes call Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972) a watershed event in Watson's career and say he was a complete performer.