Doc Watson, Folk Guitar Icon, Dies at 89. The Grammy-winning musician, blind since the age of 1, recently had abdominal surgery that resulted in his hospitalization.

Doc Watson's son Merle began recording and touring with him in 1964. But Merle Watson died at age 36 in a 1985 tractor accident, sending his father into deep grief and making him consider retirement.

Doc Watson passed away yesterday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the age of 89. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a three-room house that he shared with ...

Doc Watson was born March 3, 1923, in Deep Gap, about 100 miles northwest of Charlotte. He lost his eyesight by the age of 1 when he developed an eye infection that was worsened by a congenital ...

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 ...

Blind from the age of 1, Watson was left to listen to the world around him and it was as if he heard things differently from others. ... Guitar-picking master Doc Watson dies at 89.

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 ...