It’s been a hard year for bluegrass. First we lost Earl Scruggs when the great father of bluegrass banjo passed away, and now guitar legend Doc Watson has passed on as well. You could spend a lifetime ...

In 1997, when presenting Arthel “Doc” Watson with a National Medal of Arts, President Bill Clinton said, “There may not be a serious, committed Baby Boomer alive who didn’t at some point in his or her ...

Doc Watson, the virtuoso folk-guitar player whose real name was Arthel, died Tuesday in a hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was eighty-nine years old and had made more than fifty records.

Folk legend Arthel “Doc” Watson died last night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was 89 and had been ill since undergoing abdominal surgery last week. Though Watson referred to his own music as ...

You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson’s music. The rush of a mountain stream, the steady creak of a mule in leather harness plowing rows in topsoil and the echoes of ancient ...

Doc Watson enjoyed legendary status among American roots musicians. A highly influential guitarist, he adapted many of the fiddle tunes of his Appalachian roots to a new flat-pick idiom. He served, ...