While not a vinyl release, their forthcoming Doc Watson collection looks like something folk and Americana fans need to put on their holiday shopping list. Doc Watson’s influence on folk, bluegrass, ...

View full size Associated Press fileIn this May 1, 2005 file photo, master flatpicker Doc Watson plays during the "My Friend Merle" show during MerleFest in Wilkesboro, N.C. Watson, the Grammy ...

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Doc Watson is one of America's most revered folk musicians; he's often called the finest flat-picker in the country. This show originally aired Jan. 19, 1996; it ...

The Three Pickers' North Carolina concert is now the subject of a best-selling CD and DVD. NPR's Melissa Block spoke with the music legends, and they performed some of their songs in NPR's Studio ...

Folk legend Doc Watson dies at 89Doc Watson was born March 3, 1923, in what is now Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He lost his eyesight by age 1 when he developed an eye infection ...

Doc Watson, the bluegrass music legend from Appalachia who was renowned for his flatpicking and fingerstyle technique on the acoustic guitar, died Tuesday at a hospital in North Carolina ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Doc Watson is at an age when the old-timey songs he plays have a particular poignancy, particularly the church songs that tell of being "carried away" or "going over to the ...