Since the early '60s, guitar novices have been slowing down Doc Watson albums to figure out just how he crafts those elegantly crisp, tastefully flat-picked melodies.

VideoIt’s been a hard year for bluegrass. First we lost Earl Scruggs when the great father of bluegrass banjo passed away, and now guitar legend Doc Watson has passed on as well. You could spend ...

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 ...

In 1962, Doc Watson and some of his musician neighbors set out from their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the journey of a lifetime, to perform at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles.

In 1997, when presenting Arthel "Doc" Watson with a National Medal of Arts, President Bill Clinton said, "There may not be a serious, committed Baby Boomer aliv ...

Guitar picking master Doc Watson dies in North Carolina at 89 . Updated: May. 30, 2012, 3:34 p.m. | ... You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson's music.

Folk musician Doc Watson dies at age 89 Musician Doc Watson poses backstage at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Calif., in this 1986 publicity photo. Reuters ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - 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 ...

Remembering Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Hero (1923-2012) Smithsonian Folkways honors the blind folk musician who died yesterday at the age of 89. Aviva Shen. May 30, 2012. Get our newsletter!

Doc Watson, the master of the flatpicking guitar style, died on Tuesday. The 89-year-old, born Arthel Lane Watson, passed away at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North ...

Last year, Doc Watson stood in front of the crowd at the Spirit of Sunday service at MerleFest, playing a guitar that had been made for him by his good Guitar made for Doc Watson will be part of ...