(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 ...

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, ...

Peter “Doc” Watson’s dreams of owning a sport-fishing boat began when he was just 7 years old, standing with his father atop the windswept dunes of Fort Macon, overlooking Beaufort Inlet at the ...

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 ...

Musician Doc Watson died on Tuesday. The 89 year old guitarist from Deep Gap, North Carolina, had been in a Winston-Salem hospital recovering from a fall and other ailments. Watson was an iconic North ...

With the passing of Arthel “Doc” Watson, in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar – a blind flat-picking virtuoso ...

On this day (May 29) in 2012, Doc Watson passed away at the age of 89 due to complications following surgery. He grew up in a rural community called Deep Gap near Bonne, North Carolina. As an infant, ...

Doc Watson, the legendary folk and bluegrass musician died Tuesday at the age of 89. Wayne Henderson, a guitarist and master craftsman of guitars and other instruments, was Watson's longtime friend.

Richard Eddy Watson, the grandson of music legend Doc Watson and the son of Merle Watson, has died. He lived in Deep Gap. According to media reports, Watson, 49, died Monday of a heart attack. “The ...

Legendary guitarist Doc Watson died May 29 at the age of 89 at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Watson had undergone colon surgery earlier that week following a ...

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 ...