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 ...

In a memorial service laced with gentle bluegrass music that was held in a church built into the Blue Ridge hills that he so loved, Doc Watson's family and friends celebrated his life, his music and ...

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

The eventual flat-picking legend bought himself his first guitar when he was a kid with $10 his father gave him for farm work. "He put me to work, and that made me feel useful," Watson, the sixth of ...

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, ...

Sittin’ On Top Of The World Sweet Heaven When I Die Country Blues The Train That Carried My Girl From Town Impediments, pain, suffering and sorrow come in all shapes and sizes. Doc Watson knew and ...