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.

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 ...

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.

Folk music hero Doc Watson, ‘the godfather of all flatpickers,’ passes away at the age of 89. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER . Published: 23:58 EDT, 29 May 2012 | Updated: 04:34 EDT, 30 May 2012 ...

In a memorial service laced with gentle bluegrass music that was held in a church built into the Blue Ridge hills that he so loved, Doc Watson's family and friends ...

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… ...

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 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 ...

Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but his music is as influential now – more than a decade after his 2012 death ...