In 1997, when presenting Arthel “Doc” Watson with a National Medal ... I want you to learn how to play this thing real well,” CNN quotes Watson as saying. “It might help you get through ...

If the name Doc Watson doesn’t resonate into your soul ... He pointed to a bronze statue of Watson in Boone, North Carolina, that quotes the guitarist as “Just one of the People.” ...

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 ...

Doc Watson died in 2012 but his influence on American music was undeniable. Master of flatpicking--the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between ...

By The Associated Press 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 ...

On this day (May 29) in 2012, Doc Watson passed away at the age of 89 due to complications following surgery. He grew up in a rural community called Deep Gap near Bonne, North Carolina.

With the passing of Arthel “Doc” Watson, in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar – a blind flat-picking ...

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 ...