Doc Watson

Arthel "Doc" Watson, considered the greatest flatpick guitarist of his generation, died Tuesday at 89 after a fall earlier this month in his home. Read More

Arthel "Doc" Watson, considered the greatest flatpick guitarist of his generation, died Tuesday at 89 after a fall earlier this month in his home. Read More

Music legend Doc Watson died Tuesday at age 89. Read More

One of the last times I saw him was at a music festival in Virginia, where he was sharing the bill with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Doc played first, and you could hardly hear him. Read More

Doc Watson, who died on Tuesday at age 89 , was the first truly great guitar player I ever saw up close. Read More

With the passing of Arthel "Doc" Watson , in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar – a blind flat-picking virtuoso of astonishing velocity, clean precision and earthy melodic comfort. Read More

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Fred Vultee is an assistant professor of journalism at Wayne State University who began playing bluegrass music as a student at the University of North Carolina in the 1970s and still has photos from the first time he saw Doc Watson. Read More

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As we reported yesterday , legendary flat picker Doc Watson died at age 89 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Read More