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.

(AP) 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 ...

Doc Watson at the 2009 Musicfest ‘N Sugar Grove. Photo by Appalachian Encounters via Flickr. At 88, Doc Watson is a legend of folk and bluegrass music, but he hasn’t yet lost the drive to hit ...

A mountain-born treasure of American folk music, Doc Watson, died Tuesday in North Carolina at age 89. His manager said in a statement that Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in ...

Doc Watson was an acoustic guitar virtuoso—a blind, flat-picking wizard who inspired generations of bluegrass and country artists with his precise, lightning-fast licks. Yet the first stringed ...

Grammy award-winning folk and bluegrass guitarist Arthel "Doc" Watson has died in North Carolina aged 89. The American musician died following abdominal surgery, and had been in a critical ...