Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley: The Original Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 Smithsonian Folkways. In 1960, the producer Ralph Rinzler paired the forgotten banjo legend Clarence Ashley with an ...

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. Though he knew how to play the banjo and harmonica from an ...

Doc Watson's father gave him a harmonica as a young child, and by 5 he was playing the banjo, according to the Merlefest website. He learned a few guitar chords while attending the North Carolina ...

Doc Watson’s father gave him a harmonica as a young child, and by 5, he was playing the banjo. He learned a few guitar chords while attending the North Carolina Morehead School for the Blind in ...

Doc Watson, Folk Music Icon, ... He told WHYY's Fresh Air that he was only 11 when his father made him a banjo using the skin of an old dead cat. "He brought it to me and put it in my hands, ...

Doc Watson enjoyed legendary status among American ... As he noted: "When I play a song, be it on the guitar or banjo, I live that song; whether it is a happy song or a sad song.

With the passing of Arthel "Doc" Watson, in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar – a blind flat-picking ...

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.

Besides being the 24-year-old son of the preeminent guitar picker, Doc Watson, Merle is also his father’s extremely competent accompanist on banjo and second guitar.

Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, never had a hit record, and none of his albums ever went gold. This truth, a shame considering his talent, his influence on the guitar and the beauty of his … ...

General Watson, played the banjo, which was Doc's first instrument.At age 13, he taught himself the chords to "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland" on a borrowed guitar, and his delighted father ...