Doc Watson was the finest guitar picker of his time. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos via Getty Images Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — 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 ...

Grammy-winning U.S. guitarist and folk singer Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson died on Tuesday in a North Carolina hospital at age 89, his management company said. Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical ...

Watson picked fiddle tunes on the guitar on street corners in Boone and Lenoir, when he was a teenager and kept a clear, sweet singing voice all his life, as he demonstrated at a performance last ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- 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 ...

Doc Watson dies. For all people who play a stringed folk instrument, Doc Watson was the apex of talent. After Pete Seeger, there is no one I enjoy listening to more than Doc. He just passed in his ...

Watson, who was blind from age 1, recently had abdominal surgery that resulted in his hospitalization. Arthel "Doc" Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead ...

Musician Doc Watson poses backstage at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, in this 1986 publicity photo released to Reuters on May 25, 2012. Grammy-winning folk musician Watson died May ...

Arthel "Doc" Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- 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 ...