Enjoy the smooth guitar picking and heartfelt lyrics in Deep River Blues, a classic folk-blues track performed by Doc Watson.

He recorded it for the first time in 1972, per Secondhand Songs. It showed up on a handful of Watson’s albums including The Elementary Doc Watson and Doc & Dawg, a collaborative album with David ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, never had a hit record, and ...

President Jimmy Carter hosted a performance by Doc Watson at the White House on Aug. 7, 1980. While they knew countless traditional tunes, songs and ballads, Doc and Merle were equally devoted to ...

Arthel "Doc" Watson was born March 3 ... church choir and played banjo and his mother sang secular and religious songs, according to a statement from Folklore Productions, his management company ...

Arthel Watson got his nickname one night in a furniture store in Lenoir, N.C., in 1951, when he was just 18 years old. He was by then sufficiently gifted on the guitar to be performing at what ...

Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89 ... a little island of desegregation allowed blues songs to mix alongside cowboy yodelers and gospel choirs. By his late teens, he was playing square ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GEORGIA BUCK") ULABY: Doc Watson's parents made sure young Arthel Lane Watson had the tools he needed to face life without sight or money. His dad traded a week's worth of pay ...

Countless guitarists have tried to emulate Watson's renditions of songs such as "Tennessee Stud," "Shady Grove," and "Deep River Blues." Doc Watson Performs Tennessee Stud Doc Watson's son Merle ...

Doc Watson At 100, which is set to release on April 28. With that news, Parton has shared a tribute song to Watson, “The Last Thing On My Mind,” originally written by Tom Paxton in the early ...

Dolly Parton has shared a new rendition of "The Last Thing on My Mind" from an upcoming tribute album celebrating Doc Watson’s 100th birthday.

Doc Watson’s popularity and influence came from his virtuosic guitar playing, ... songs and ballads, Doc and Merle were equally devoted to interpreting newer material.