Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doc Watson was the finest guitar picker of his time. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos via Getty Images Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born ...

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, ...

101 Ground Hog / Arnold Watson, Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton. Autoharp,Fiddle,Banjo. 102 Every Day Dirt / Doc Watson. Guitar. 103 Bonaparte's Retreat / Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton. Fiddle,Guitar. 104 ...

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 echoes of ancient ...

The 38th annual MerleFest this past weekend was one for the books. For decades, music fans have descended upon the town of Wilkesboro, NC - situated in the foothills beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains - ...

Last night, Grammy-award-winning bluegrass guitarist and singer-songwriter Billy Strings celebrated what would’ve been the 100th birthday of Doc Watson, one of his greatest influences. The celebration ...

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 ...

"Doc Watson: A Life in Music” by Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...

Doc Watson’s Market, 275 S. Main St. in Amherst, celebrated a milestone over the weekend as the business turned a year-old. Mother’s Day recipe for kids to make: Chicken Sliders Mother’s Day recipe ...

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 ...

In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...