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	DOC WATSON
		Doc Watson is a legendary performer who blends his traditional Appalachian folk music roots with blues, country, gospel, and bluegrass to create his unique style and expansive repertoire.
		Doc was born Arthel L. Watson in Deep Gap, NC (Watauga County) on March 23, 1923 into a family with a rich musical tradition.
		Doc's early instrumental experience was with harmonica and a homemade banjo, but at age thirteen he taught himself the chords to "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland" on a borrowed guitar.
	www.ibiblio.org /DocWat/DocWat.html (667 words)

	MerleFest: An Americana Music Celebration
		Doc's family was a musically inclined one and as he remembers, "There was the old phonograph around the house, and, of course, I heard the singing at the church, and my mother sang a few of the old ballads when she'd be knitting some of the boys' overalls or cooking or something or other.
		Not only did Doc Watson come from a musical background, but he married into another family of music when, at the age of 23, he wed his 15-year-old third cousin Rosa Lee Carlton, whose father, Gaither Carlton, was a fiddler with whom Watson played regional hymns and ballads.
		Rinzler's "discovery" of Watson led to Watson's touring the coffeehouse circuit in the Northeast and eventually took him to the stage of the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, where he was embraced enthusiastically by the folk community, young and old.
	www.merlefest.org /DocsIntro.htm (2239 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Doc Watson
		Watson's trademark two-fingered flatpicking style is one of the most influential in the genre, and has proven influential to all who followed in his wake.
		For many years, Watson worked in a duo with his son Merle, but the latter was killed in a 1985 farm accident.
		Doc eventually soldiered on, becoming one of the most respected elder statesmen of bluegrass, earning Grammys and plaudits along the way.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/artist.jsp?artistId=93509 (126 words)

	Doc Watson in Concert - Folk Music
		Not only are Doc's engagement's limited, it was an especially rare treat to have his grandson Richard on stage with him.
		Doc is renowned for playing traditional mountain fiddle tunes on his flat-pick guitar, a technique that few have mastered.
		Doc spoke of his dad teaching him how to play harmonica (the first instrument Doc mastered) and illustrated the progression of that process through playing a tune.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art32172.asp (594 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Doc Watson tickets, concerts and tour dates
		Since 1960, though, when Watson was recorded with his family and friends in Folkways' Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's, people have remained in awe of this gentle blind man who sings and picks with a pure and emotional authenticity.
		Early in his childhood in Deep Gap, Watson was struck by an illness that restricted the bloodflow to his eyes, resulting in his blindness at an early age.
		From that point on, Doc and Merle were constant collaborators and one of the most popular performers on the folk and traditional music circuit.
	www.ticketmaster.com /artist/732973 (1411 words)

	DOC WATSON
		After Doc learned to play "When The Roses Bloom In Dixie Land", a Carter family song, on a borrowed guitar, his father bought him a $12 Stella guitar when he was thirteen.
		Doc was discovered purely by accident during the 60's folk revival by folklorist Ralph Rinzler.
		Although Doc stopped performing for a period of time in 1985 when his son Merle was killed in a tractor accident, he still does a limited amount of touring and hosts the Merle Watson Memorial Festival in Wilkesboro, N.C. each year on the last weekend of April.
	www.ivycreek.com /docwatson.html (354 words)

	CMT.com : Doc Watson : Biography
		Early in his childhood in Deep Gap, Watson was struck by an illness that restricted the bloodflow to his eyes, resulting in his blindness at an early age.
		The invitation to perform in New York was an indication that the folk boom of the early '60s was beginning to gain momentum, and Doc became one of the major benefactors of the revival.
		From that point on, Doc and Merle were constant collaborators and one of the most popular performers on the folk and traditional music circuit.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/watson_doc/bio.jhtml (1099 words)

	Doc Watson
		Doc has said that his earliest memories of music reach back to his days as a young child being held in his mother's arms at the Mt. Patron Church and listening to the harmony and shape-note singing.
		Doc's first stringed instrument, not including a steel wire he had strung across the woodshed's sliding door to provide bass accompaniment to his harmonica playing, was a banjo his father built for him when he was eleven years old.
		Doc's was first inspired to learn how to play fiddle tunes on the guitar after he became frustrated trying to learn how to play the fiddle.
	www.flatpick.com /Pages/Featured_Artist/Doc.html (5037 words)

	Doc Watson: Trouble in Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection 1964-1998 - PopMatters Music Review
		Watson is a consummate musician on guitar or banjo; his low baritone is as expressive as it is comforting.
		Lyrically, Watson is not afraid to lend his creativity even to this batch of standards; his "Stackolee" is as derivative of the thousand versions of the classic tale as it is Doc's own story.
		The longer-standing Watson fans already have in their collections many of the tracks that are on this anthology, as -- honorably -- no novelties, rarities, or outtakes have been included to induce the dedicated fan spend sixteen bucks on one new song.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/w/watsondoc-trouble.shtml (966 words)

	Legacy - Doc Watson & David Holt: Press & Reviews - Dan Miller, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As the story unfolds, Doc performs the tunes that were of the greatest significance in his life.
		All told what you get on these three CDs is a chronicle of Doc Watson's life told in his own words, a live Doc Watson concert, Doc performing a total of 34 songs, and a wonderfully designed 72-page booklet.
		Doc Watson has made a lot of recordings during a recording career that spans nearly 50 years.
	www.docwatsonanddavidholt.com /press/review_flatpicking_guitar.shtml (560 words)

	Doc Watson: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Son Merle Watson gets top billing along with his dad on this superior release of acoustic mountain music, but it is really a group effort in which the smooth mastery of Doc Watson serves as a kind of a picture frame for each of the musical canvases included.
		By the mid-'60s, Doc Watson (vocal/guitar/harmonica) had been joined by his son Merle Watson (guitar/banjo), and together they were responsible for scores of releases featuring their inimitable brand of infectious and honest acoustic folk and traditional country music.
		Watson's arrival on the folk scene of the '60s was a major event in American music, due mostly to his appearance at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and the release of this self-titled album the following year.
	www.music.com /person/doc_watson/1/discography/albums (2257 words)

	Doc Watson Bio at Pure Country Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Doc Watson’s incomparable guitar work and his heartfelt singing style make him a treasure in the folk, bluegrass and country fields, and living proof that country music has much more to offer the world than simply commercial hit singles.
		Doc Watson is a throwback to a time when the best musician you ever heard was this guy with an old flattop guitar who lived just down the road from you, or a fellow from the next county over who played live every morning at 6 on the local 500-watt AM radio station.
		In addition to other appearances, Doc still picks and sings for thousands of acoustic music fans at his annual Merlefest Bluegrass festival in Wilkesboro, NC, which Doc began two years after the death of his son, Merle Watson in the fall of 1987.
	www.purecountrymusic.com /products/article_Doc_Watson_Bio.html (170 words)

	Doc Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to Doc on his three CD biographical recording "Legacy", he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname to go by.
		Doc proved to be a natural and became a prolific acoustic and electric guitar player in spite of his handicap.
		Doc plays guitar in both flatpicking and fingerpicking style, but is best known for his flatpick work.
	www.artistopia.com /doc-watson (1024 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Doc Watson
		Much can be said (and probably will be, in advance of Watson's January 26 appearance at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival) of Watson's tremendous influence as a guitarist and banjoist — never flashy, he has a hypnotic way of exploring small musical spaces.
		The point is not that Watson's repertoire skews toward an older, purer layer of folk music than those of the other southeastern performers who came to prominence during the 1960s folk revival.
		Watson is an icon of the 1960s rediscovery of folk music, and his popularity has never waned since he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0201.docwatson-review.html (392 words)

	Off the Record \| Doc Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There’s the breakneck-paced nursery rhyme "Sing Song Kitty," where Watson and guest John Herald generate good-natured sparks as they speed their six-strings along.
		(After all, this is a genre sprung from lives spent in poverty and backbreaking labor.) The best are "Little Sadie," where Watson assumes the role of a cold-blooded killer, and "The Dream of the Miner’s Child," in which a little girl foresees her father’s horrible death in a mine fire — in grisly detail.
		Of course, even these songs are deeply beautiful thanks to the solid-oak quality of Watson’s voice and his majestic flatpicking.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02010964.htm (219 words)

	Acoustic Guitar Central: Doc Watson's living legacy
		Watson's style evolved while playing fiddle tunes on electric guitar in a 1950s dance band and it translated well to the acoustic guitar when he picked it up again in the '60s.
		Doc thinks Merle's skills as a guitar player have been unjustly overshadowed by his own reputation and that he never could come close to matching Merle's accomplishments as a slide player.
		Watson simply feels that the music he inherited was good for all ages and for all the ages.
	www.acousticguitar.com /issues/ag126/feature126.html (2787 words)

	The Doc Watson Guitar Home Page - Doc's Guitar
		Doc Watson has had a profound influence in traditional, folk and bluegrass music ever since coming to national attention in the early 1960's.
		Here at Doc's Guitar you will find biographical information about Doc, along with a listing of the honors and awards he has received.
		One of the songs that Doc sings on the Ballads from Deep Gap album is called "The Lawson Family Murder" and is based on a true event that happened in 1929.
	www.docsguitar.com (570 words)

	Shubb Artists: Doc Watson
		Hank Bradley, the great oldtime fiddler, introduced me to Doc Watson when I was about 19 or 20; many years before the first Shubb Capo.
		Doc has always loved to play fiddle tunes on the guitar, and he liked Hank's fiddling.
		Doc liked it so well that he started using us on his shows.
	www.shubb.com /artists/docwatson.html (258 words)

	Doc Watson Biography (Guitarist/Country Musician) — FactMonster.com
		Arthel "Doc" Watson grew up listening and playing traditional folk and bluegrass music on the family farm in North Carolina.
		Doc Watson's influence on country and bluegrass music is widely acknowledged, as is his encyclopedic knowledge of traditional folk tunes.
		Watson, the famous fictional sidekick of Sherlock Holmes.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/docwatson.html (276 words)

	Doc Watson BGU 97
		Doc Watson, whose entire family received the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award in 1994, has reached the stage in his outstanding career where honors seem to happen organically as well.
		This May eleventh Doc journeyed down the mountain to massive Kenan Stadium at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to become officially a doctor by means of the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the school’s commencement exercises.
		Doc personally delineates two reasons for the growth of MerleFest: "the music selectively that comes there and the other main ingredient in the fact that it’s grown is that it’s family oriented, and people don’t come there to party, they go there to fellowship and listen to the music.
	www.mindspring.com /~artmenius/doc_watson_bgu_97.htm (6009 words)

	Doc Watson Tickets, Doc Watson Concert Tickets at StubHub! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Doc Watson concert tickets are available, and even as he nears his mid-80's Watson still knows how to please a crowd.
		Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was born on March 3, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
		Doc learned to play the guitar early, and has released dozens of albums during his career.
	www.stubhub.com /doc-watson-tickets/?ticket_finder=1329&sub=eframe (451 words)

	Shubb Artists: Doc Watson
		A couple of years ago, someone commented on Doc's Shubb Capo as he was putting it on his guitar.
		Hank Bradley, the great oldtime fiddler, introduced me to Doc Watson when I was about 19 or 20; many years before the first Shubb Capo.
		Doc has always loved to play fiddle tunes on the guitar, and he liked Hank's fiddling.
	www.sonic.net /~shubb/artists/docwatson.html (258 words)

	Doc Watson Music Festival Information
		Helping Doc celebrate this year, some of the top names in homegrown music will gather in the intimate setting of the Old Cove Creek High School in beautiful Sugar Grove, N.C. The Old Cove Creek High School, home of the Doc and Merle Watson Folk Art Museum, is a great place to enjoy live music.
		All of the proceeds from this event benefit the museum which serves as a living tribute to Doc and Merle Watson and their extraordinary contribution to American and Appalachian culture.
		Docís answer: ìI dream in feelings, pure feelings.î In 1984 Doc and Merle Watson appeared as guests on Fire on the Mountain, a show David was hosting on TNN.
	www.docwatsonmusicfest.org /infopage.html (689 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson: The Original Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 [2-CD Set]
		When blind singer/guitarist Arthel "Doc" Watson was "discovered" by folklorist Ralph Rinzler in 1960 he sounded as though he'd been picking for a hundred years, not to mention the fact that his huge repertoire of old songs seemed like it could go on for days.
		Watson had actually been playing in a honky-tonk band when Rinzler came across him in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
		When he asked Doc to set down his electric guitar he created one of the first--and most lasting--stars of the folk revival.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=B000001DHG (450 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Doc Watson
		Watson's rise to the top of the country pickers pantheon began in earnest in 1964 when he played the Newport Folk Festival accompanied by his father-in-law, fiddler Gaither Carlton, his brother Arnold and other family members.
		Watson cancelled all of his concert dates and set his sights on retirement.
		Doc Watson, with Richard Watson and David Holt, performs Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the LBC.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.28.05/watson-0539.html (653 words)

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