Last night, Grammy-award-winning bluegrass guitarist and singer-songwriter Billy Strings celebrated what would've been the 100th birthday of Doc Watson, ...

The music of North Carolinian Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson is as influential now — more than a decade after his 2012 death — as at any time during his long career. During that time he was ...

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Like the bluegrass genre itself, Doc Watson’s annual tribute festival to his late son, guitarist/banjo player Eddy Merle Watson, has grown up, spread its wings and taken off. Back in 1987, the ...

From the folk revival of the 1960s to the Americana movement of the 21st century, Doc Watson remained a constant source of inspiration and a treasured touchstone before his death Tuesday at age 89.

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.

Performer (s): Principally songs ; Doc Watson, vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, banjo ; Clint Howard, vocals, guitar ; Fred Price, vocals, fiddle. Production notes: "Recorded in 1967 for the ...

Watson teamed up with legendary banjo artist Earl Scruggs and folk singer and mandolinist Ricky Scaggs for a special concert for public television called The Three Pickers.

Two of Watson’s former sidekicks, T. Michael Coleman and Jack Lawrence, will be part of a tribute concert, Doc Watson at 100, set for Saturday at Jefferson Center.