Doc Watson’s legacy will grow after his passing, since he touched generations of music lovers with his retelling of traditional songs rooted deep in American history. Watson sculpture in Boone ...

East Tennessee State University Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but his music is as influential now – more ...

A mountain-born treasure of American folk music, Doc Watson, died Tuesday in North Carolina at age 89. His manager said in a statement that Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in ...

He entered the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh when he was 10, and that's where the youngster—who already had a background in church music and was adept at harmonica and banjo ...

Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89 ... should serve as inspiration to any musician interested in the long game, in making music that endures not because of its shock value or its keen ...

"My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music," Doc Watson is quoted as saying on the website. "I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those ...

Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89 ... should serve as inspiration to any musician interested in the long game, in making music that endures not because of its shock value or its keen ...

Master of half-a-dozen styles of American music, slave of none, Arthel “Doc” Watson was first “discovered” accidentally during the folk craze of the Sixties. In 1960, he was 37 and playing ...

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A treasure of American folk music has died. Doc Watson passed away yesterday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the age of 89. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge ...