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Arthel Lane Watson (born March 3, 1923) in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter & singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. A nickname 'Doc' comes from either Sherlock Holmes's sidekick.

- In point of fact: Doc had his nicktitle from either a studio employee world health organization asked what the name of the artis was. Because there are no a single knew that at a instance a human said: "call him Doc". Besides that, Doc usualy occurs as nickname for the seventh baby (boy) around the personal. (Jan Willems) -

Doc Watson, c. 1979 An stye stimulated Doc Watson to lose his vision prior to his first birthday. He typically performed by owning his boy, (Eddy) Merle Watson (Named fallowing Eddy Arnold and Merle Travis), who was flushed inside a tractor accident at the age of 36 within 1985.

He plays within two flatpicking and fingerpicking style, but is better known for his flatpick operate. His virtuosity combined with his legitimacy as the mountain musician processed him a extremely influential figure in the folk music revival of the early sixties. He pioneered a convenient & flashy bluegrass lead guitar style which has been adopted & extended by others like Clarence White and Tony Rice.

He is as well an first-class & soulful singer, world health organization began by getting a repertoire of mountain ballads which he learned via the oral tradition of his home locality within Deep Gap, North Carolina. His number one recordings were processed by owning Clarence Ashley, Fred Price, Clint Howard, and others from either this locality. Before this, he worked as an electric guitar streaming video player within the honky-barrelhouse band.

Inside 1986 he received the North Carolina Award and in 2000 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.

Grammy Awards
1973 Right Ethnic Or even Traditional Recording (Including Traditional Blues): Doc Watson for So & Now 1974 Right Ethnic Or even Traditional Recording: Merle Watson & Doc Watson for Two Days In November 1979 Right United states Subservient Performance: Doc Watson & Merle Watson for Big Sandy/Leather Britches 1986 Right Traditional Folk Recording: Doc Watson for Riding A Midnight Train 1990 Right Traditional Folk Recording: Doc Watson for In Praying Ground 2002 Right Traditional Folk Album: Doc Watson & David Holt for Legacy

FolkLib Index for Doc Watson
Categorized links.

CMT.com: Doc Watson
Biography, portrait, brief discography.

Doc's Guitar: The Guitar of Doc Watson
Explores the music and guitar style of Doc Watson. Includes biography, discography, learning resources, videography and tablature.

Doc Watson - American Folk Music Legend
Biographical site with pictures and sound clips.

Doc Watson Exhibit
Information, sound, and graphics concerning the legendary folk, bluegrass and old-timey guitarist and vocalist; from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Doc Watson Music Fest
Annual music festival held to honor Doc Watson and to benefit the Doc and Merle Watson Folk Art Museum.


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