Doc Watson, the bluegrass music legend from Appalachia who was renowned for his flatpicking and fingerstyle technique on the acoustic guitar, died Tuesday at a hospital in North Carolina ...

"I'm just as informal as I would be if you were down at my home," said guitar legend Doc Watson to a packed house Saturday night at the Birchmere in Alexandria. And sure enough, it wasn't long ...

Some North Carolina lawmakers say the state lost a true genius when American roots musician Doc Watson died last year.The House honored the native son Thursday in a resolution that charted Watson ...

Doc Watson, Folk Music Icon, Dies At 89 : ... Watson was born in Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a three-room house he shared with eight brothers and sisters.

Doc Watson at the 2009 Musicfest ‘N Sugar Grove. ... His mother also frequently sang old-time songs and ballads around the house and the first instrument is father gave him was a harmonica.

Doc Watson has died at a North Carolina hospital, his representative says. Watson, 89, had colon surgery last week at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center ...