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Watson, who died in 2012, was born in North Carolina went on to become widely regarded as the single greatest flat-picking guitar player in America. Originally broadcast in 1988 and 1989.

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

Listen to the title track from the upcoming album celebrating the legendary North Carolina flatpicker, I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100

This article originally appeared in the March/April 1993 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine and was excerpted for the the September/October 2020 issue | By Stephanie P. Ledgin For more than three decades, Arthel “Doc” Watson has been America’s most renowned and influential folk guitar stylist. Now about to turn 70, he’s mostly retired, staying off the road except for a…

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Whether you’re welcoming spring with jazz in New Orleans or sweating out summer on a farm in Tennessee, these music events are worth putting on your dream calendar

Folk artists Aaron Simmons, Kelley Smith and Jake Nelson will perform March 3

Born in Stony Fork and raised in Deep Gap — both tiny communities tucked in the mountainous folds of Watauga County — Doc Watson rose to fame as a dazzling

March 1: “The Three Pickers,” a concert filmed in 2002 at Reynolds Auditorium featuring Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and Ricky Skaggs, with guest appearance from Alison Krauss; at Aperture Cinema,