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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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