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

Huffman paints a portrait of Watson as a jack of all trades, an Appalachian Renaissance man. He could have made a good life ...

Doc Watson played the acoustic guitar with such pure precision that Bob Dylan once compared his picking to "water running." The folk-music icon, 89, died Tuesday, after a fall last week at his home in ...

Watson was one of America's premier acoustic folk guitarists. We'll hear two of Watson's appearances on the show: an interview from 1988 and a live convert from 1989. Watson's flat-pick style of ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Doc Watson is at an age when the old-timey songs he plays have a particular poignancy, particularly the church songs that tell of being "carried away" or "going over to the other ...

Doc Watson, Blind Guitar Wizard Who Influenced Generations, Dies at 89 Mr. Watson’s flat-picking style elevated the acoustic guitar to solo status in bluegrass and country music, and his ...

When Arthel Watson was growing up in Deep Gap, North Carolina, his chosen instrument, the acoustic guitar, was an afterthought in the string bands of Appalachia. It just wasn’t loud enough to be heard ...

From the point that he found wide recognition during the early ’60s folk revival and through the landmark 50-year performing and recording career that followed, Arthel “Doc” Watson was granted maximal ...