According to The Advocate’s John Wirt, although Watson was 86 years old, he demonstrated “masterful flat picking and finger ...

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 ...

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 ...

Folk songs; Doc Watson, accompanying himself on the guitar, 5-string banjo, and harmonica; in part with John Herald, 2d guitar. Program notes by Ralph Rinzler on slipcase. Nashville blues --Sitting on ...

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 ...