Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, ...

After finishing a powerful rendition of "Deep River Blues," Doc Watson paused to share a personal insight with the audience. "I'm playing about a third slower than I used to play," said the legendary ...

Bluegrass music legend Doc Watson died yesterday at 89. From his NY Times obit: Mr. Watson, who came to national attention during the folk music revival of the early 1960s, injected a note of ...

With the passing of Arthel “Doc” Watson, in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar – a blind flat-picking virtuoso ...

Doc Watson draws a stand-room-only crowd to the Blues Tent at Jazz Fest. Bill Monroe may have been called the Father of Bluegrass, but perhaps no voice is more familiar to the genre than the legendary ...

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 ...

Culled from ten Vanguard and Sugar Hill recordings, Trouble in Mind is an exquisite assemblage of white rural blues by its greatest living practitioner, Arthel "Doc" Watson, the now 80-year-old flat ...

In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...

Richard Eddy Watson, the grandson of music legend Doc Watson and the son of Merle Watson, has died. He lived in Deep Gap. According to media reports, Watson, 49, died Monday of a heart attack. “The ...

(CBS/AP) Musicians and celebrities alike are coming out to pay tribute to folk pioneer Doc Watson, who died Tuesday. He was 89. Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, ...

On this day (May 29) in 2012, Doc Watson passed away at the age of 89 due to complications following surgery. He grew up in a rural community called Deep Gap near Bonne, North Carolina. As an infant, ...

Merle Watson has a strong set of credentials for a young musician. Besides being the 24-year-old son of the preeminent guitar picker, Doc Watson, Merle is also his father’s extremely competent ...