A new Doc Watson collection from ... The collection also features Watson’s work with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, as well as his prolific musical partnership with his son, Merle. Accompanying the 4-CD ...

In the folk music community, Watson is best known for his part in preserving the traditional ballads and melodies of southern Appalachia. His latest CD, Sittin Here Pickin the Blues, features him ...

Doc Watson, the blind folk singer and guitarist whose dazzling string work and homespun stage manner transported concert audiences to his rural home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, died Tuesday at a ...

and Doc’s Guitar Jam—show a more unguarded portrait of the musician. It can be difficult to find folk musicians like Watson on film, the occasional “Austin City Limits” notwithstanding.

Dolly Parton has shared a new rendition of “The Last Thing on My Mind” from an upcoming all-star collection of covers celebrating what would have been folk legend Doc Watson’s 100th birthday.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century ...

In celebration of what would have been guitarist and folk singer Doc Watson’s 100th birthday, a new covers compilation is coming in April called I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson At 100. The stacked ...