CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Watch Doc Watson teach and play "Deep River Blues." This video is from the instructional DVD "Doc's Guitar: Fingerpicking & Flatpicking" produced ...

After finishing a powerful rendition of "Deep River Blues," Doc Watson paused to share a personal insight with the audience. "I'm playing about a third slower than I used to play," said the legendary ...

Doc Watson draws a stand-room-only crowd to the Blues Tent at Jazz Fest. Bill Monroe may have been called the Father of Bluegrass, but perhaps no voice is more familiar to the genre than the legendary ...

Countless guitarists have tried to emulate Watson's renditions of songs such as "Tennessee Stud," "Shady Grove," and "Deep River Blues." Doc Watson's son Merle began recording and touring with him in ...

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Last night, Grammy-award-winning bluegrass guitarist and singer-songwriter Billy Strings celebrated what would’ve been the 100th birthday of Doc Watson, one of his greatest influences. The celebration ...

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 ...

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 ...