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, ...

Legendary guitarist Doc Watson died May 29 at the age of 89 at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Watson had undergone colon surgery earlier that week following a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Watch Doc Watson teach and play "Deep River Blues." This video is from the instructional DVD "Doc's Guitar: Fingerpicking & Flatpicking" produced ...

Arthel "Doc" Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo.

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 ...

Folk music legend Doc Watson, 89, died Tuesday at a North Carolina hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager..Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, ...

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Folk music lost a legend with the passing of Doc Watson on May 29. Justly famous for his flatpicking expertise, Watson influenced a generation of guitarists, including Bob Dylan (who said his playing ...

Doc Watson seemed like he’d been an old master all his life. A blind man who once rewired his entire house and skinned and cleaned raccoons as a kid, Doc was also never short on resourcefulness. I ...

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Grammy winning folk musician Doc Watson is in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital, a representative for the medical facility said on Thursday. The ...

The eventual flat-picking legend bought himself his first guitar when he was a kid with $10 his father gave him for farm work. "He put me to work, and that made me feel useful," Watson, the sixth of ...