In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...

"Doc Watson: A Life in Music” by Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...

Doc Watson died in 2012 but his influence on American music was undeniable. Master of flatpicking--the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between ...

The Grammy-winning musician, blind since the age of 1, recently had abdominal surgery that resulted in his hospitalization. By The Associated Press Doc Watson, the Grammy Award-winning folk musician ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died ...

Arthel Watson got his nickname one night in a furniture store in Lenoir, N.C., in 1951, when he was just 18 years old. He was by then sufficiently gifted on the guitar to be performing at what might ...

(AP) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died ...