Doc Watson was the finest guitar picker of his time. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos via Getty Images Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge ...

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, in Stony ...

Doc Watson, guitar, harmonica, vocal ; Merle Watson, guitar, slide guitar ; with instrumental and vocal accompaniment. Production notes: Recorded at Scruggs Sound Studio in Nashville, Dec. 1982. Sheep ...

Folk and country songs with vocal, 12-string and 6-string guitar, and harmonica, with Merle Watson. Biographical and program notes by Ralph Rinzler on container. 104 Dream of the Miner's Child / Merle ...

Doc Watson, the pioneering folk musician who elevated and shaped guitar playing in America across genres and generations, died Tuesday in North Carolina at the age of 89. In a statement, Watson’s ...

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 ...

After previewing the arrival of a new song earlier this week, Bryan Sutton and Billy Strings’ latest effort has culminated in ...

Musician Doc Watson poses backstage at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, in this 1986 publicity photo released to Reuters on May 25, 2012. Grammy-winning folk musician Watson died May ...

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. As an infant, ...

Grammy-winning U.S. guitarist and folk singer Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson died on Tuesday in a North Carolina hospital at age 89, his management company said. Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical ...

Doc Watson, the blind virtuoso guitarist, folk music icon and the winner of seven Grammys, died Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89 and had colon surgery last week and had also recently suffered ...