Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dolly Parton remains a singing marvel at 77, sounding clear and strong on a new rendition of her ’60s hit “The Last Thing on My Mind” that will appear on the upcoming Doc Watson tribute album I Am a ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy-award-winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flat-picking influenced guitar- ists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday ...

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, ...

A music great who was well-known in the region passed away Tuesday night. Grammy-award winning musician Doc Watson has died. We've learned Watson died Tuesday at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Medical ...

Doc Watson has been called "a living national treasure" for his virtuoso flat-picking and his repertoire of traditional folk and bluegrass tunes. For more than five decades, the blind guitarist has ...

"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 ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remains in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital after undergoing colon surgery this past week. A spokeswoman at Baptist ...