Folk music figure Doc Watson dies
- 8:30 PM — May 29 —
- Source: Variety
Doc Watson, the blind virtuoso guitarist, folk music icon and the winner of seven Grammys, died Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89 and had colon surgery last week and had also recently suffered a fall. Read More
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Jean Ritchie
Biography
Jean Ritchie was born into a large and musical family in Viper, Kentucky in 1922. The Ritchie family was very much a part of... Read the full Jean Ritchie bio.
Jean Ritchie



