Doc Watson was the finest guitar picker of his time. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos via Getty Images Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony ...

Last night, Grammy-award-winning bluegrass guitarist and singer-songwriter Billy Strings celebrated what would’ve been the 100th birthday of Doc Watson, one of his greatest influences. The celebration ...

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Tape part of series of rough copy selections intended for release, a collection of live recordings of Doc Watson (guitar, banjo, autoharp) and Jean Ritchie (dulcimer) playing and singing Appalachian ...

Doc Watson died in 2012 but his influence on American music was undeniable. Master of flatpicking--the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between ...

Doc Watson was born March 3, 1923 in what is now Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He lost his eyesight by the age of 1 when he developed an eye infection that was worsened by a congenital ...

You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson's music. The rush of a mountain stream, the steady creak of a mule in leather harness plowing rows in topsoil and the echoes of ancient ...

101 New River Train / Clint Howard, Doc Watson, Fred Price. Guitar,Fiddle,Banjo. 102 What Does the Deep Sea Say? / Clint Howard, Doc Watson, Fred Price. Guitar,Fiddle ...

There were times during Doc Watson's sold-out performance Friday night at the Birchmere when the 78-year-old guitarist seemed as if he were back at home in North Carolina, thumbing through some of the ...