Doc Watson

Jacks Hinshelwood, noted guitarist and former director of Virginia's Crooked Road, has teamed up with ETSU professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies, Ted Olson, to create a special touring musical program to celebrate the 100th

The highly-celebrated Will The Circle be Unbroken, the seventh and perhaps most consequential album released by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November. To mark this Golden Anniversary, John McEuen is releasing a book that details

After a six-year hiatus, the Doc and Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest ‘n Sugar Grove returns next month to the mountains of western North Carolina. The July 16 festival includes a lineup featuring The Del McCoury Band, Kruger Brothers, and Terry Baucom and

There is probably no single artist who better represents the folk music of western North Carolina than Doc Watson. The hugely popular guitarist and vocalist from Deep Gap, NC, blind since childhood, had a lengthy career in music that ran

You've heard the song, now read the book! The University of North Carolina Press is preparing to release a new book by Trevor McKenzie about the notorious murderer, robber, and bootlegger, Otto Wood, immortalized in the folk song that bears his

Mathis Haug and Benoit Nogaret are a pair of French guitarists with a special passion for American roots music. The two met along the French Mediterranean two decades ago, and discovered that they shared a love of Appalachian folk, old

As the title suggests, Songs Doc Didn't Sing is something of a rarity. A collection of unrelated instrumentals rescued from the vaults and compiled by producer Mitch Greenhill for Fli Records, these orphaned offerings and untended leftovers put the emphasis

Credit the esteemed Smithsonian Folkways record label for presenting, for the very first time, a series of historic recordings culled from performances by Doc Watson with his father-in-law Gaither Carlton in New York City's Greenwich Village. It was one of

A very special CD box set is coming in June that is sure to delight followers of Doc and Merle Watson. Though they have both passed on, their highly influential recordings are still enjoyed by fans and studied carefully by aspiring

Richard Eddy Watson, guitar-playing grandson of Doc Watson and son of the late Merle Watson, has passed away. He died on Monday evening June 1, 2015, due to a heart attack. Watson’s death came three years and two days after the