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 ...

Meet guitarist Jack Lawrence, who spent decades onstage with musical legend Doc Watson. If you ever saw Hall-of-Fame NC bluegrass guitarist Doc Watson in concert, chances are you also saw Jack ...

He used to tell people that had he not been blind, he probably wouldn’t ever have learned guitar, and would have most likely become a mechanic. Well, if that’s the case, thank God he was blind. The ...

Doc Watson was an acoustic guitar virtuoso—a blind, flat-picking wizard who inspired generations of bluegrass and country artists with his precise, lightning-fast licks. Yet the first stringed ...