Biography

Blind North Carolina guitarist Arthel "Doc" Watson did more than anyone other than Earl Scruggs to popularize the guitar as a lead instrument in bluegrass. 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. He became a professional musician in the 1950s, and was in the right place at the time for the folk boom of the '60s, which made him a star in roots music circles. 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.

Top Tracks

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• Banks Of The Ohio

• Big Sandy/leather Britches

• Black Mountain Rag

• Blackberry Blossom

• Blue Grass Stomp

• Bright Sunny South

• Carroll County Blues

• Coal Miner's Blues

• Corrina, Corrina

• Cotton Eyed Joe

• Country Blues

• Crawdad Song

• Darlin' Cory

• Darling Corey

• Deep River Blues

• Dill Pickle Rag

• Doc & Dawg

• F. F.v.

• Fire On The Mountain

• Footprints In The Snow

• Going Down The Road Feeling Bad

• Grandfather's Clock

• Ground Hog

• Heartbreak Hotel

• Hesitation Blues

• If I Needed You

• If I Were A Carpenter

• I'm A Stranger Here

• I'm Going Fishing

• Intoxicated Rat

• June Apple

• Keep On The Sunny Side

• Kentucky Waltz

• Little Sadie

• Live And Let Live

• Make Me A Pallet

• Mama Don't Allow No Music

• Match Box Blues

• Matty Groves

• Medley: Little Beggar Man/old Joe Clark

• Milk Cow Blues

• Milkcow Blues

• Mole In The Ground

• More Pretty Girls Than One

• Muskrat

• My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains

• My Rough And Rowdy Ways

• Natural Born Gamblin' Man

• Omie Wise

• Peg And Awl

• Poor Boy Blues

• Pretty Saro

• Rising Sun Blues

• Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

• Sally Ann

• Sally Goodin'

• Shady Grove

• Shake, Rattle & Roll

• Sitting On Top Of The World

• Southbound

• Speak To Me Little Darlin'

• Stormy Weather

• Summertime

• Tennessee Stud

• That's Why I Love You Like I Do

• The Coo Coo Bird

• The Cuckoo

• The F.f. V.

• The Train That Carried My Girl From Town

• Tom Dooley

• Train That Carried My Girl From Town

• Travelin' Man

• Wake Up, Little Maggie

• Walk On Boy

• What Does The Deep Sea Say

• Wild Bill Jones

• Windy And Warm

• Winter's Night

Discography

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• Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues

  Rounder Select / New Rounder / Rounder

  2004

• 'Round the Table Again

  Sugar Hill

  2002

• Third Generation Blues

  Sugar Hill

  1999

• Del Doc & Mac

  Sugar Hill

  1998

• Doc & Dawg

  Acoustic Disc

  1997

• Guitar Album

  Flying Fish

  1995

• Docabilly

  Sugar Hill

  1995

• My Dear Old Southern Home

  Sugar Hill

  1991

• Sings Songs for Little Pickers

  Alacazam / Alcazar

  1990

• The Doc Watson Family

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1990

• On Praying Ground

  Sugar Hill

  1990

• Portrait

  Sugar Hill

  1988

• Riding the Midnight Train

  Sugar Hill

  1986

• Down South

  Sugar Hill

  1984

• The Elementary Doctor Watson!

  Sugar Hill

  1972

• Doc Watson in Nashville: Good Deal!

  Vanguard

  1968

• Ballads From Deep Gap

  Vanguard

  1967

• Old-Timey Concert

  Vanguard

  1967

• Southbound

  Vanguard

  1966

• Home Again!

  Vanguard

  1966

• Doc Watson

  Vanguard

  1964

• Treasures Untold

  Vanguard

  1964

• Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's, Vol. 1

  Folkways

  1961