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Doc Watson

  • Two new vinyl re-pressings from Heady Wax Fiends

    March 24, 2025 | by John Lawless

    Attention vinyl lovers! Our friends at Heady Wax Fiends have projects of interest to bluegrass lovers over the next two months. The Fiends are a subscription record club for vinyl audiophiles who offer limited run, high-quality re-issues of classic albums, with

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  • Doc Watson remembered for his 102nd birthday in Charlotte

    March 4, 2025 | by Sandy Hatley

    Had Doc Watson lived, he would have been 102 years old yesterday, March 3. Sunday night, Jack Lawrence, Doc's picking partner for 27 years, and several friends celebrated the guitar guru with a concert at the Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte,

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  • Jim Hurst is Southbound

    March 3, 2025 | by John Lawless

    For his latest single with Pinecastle Records, bluegrass flatpicker and balladeer Jim Hurst has reached into the Doc Watson catalog for his own version of Southbound. Doc all but created the flatpicking scene that exists today, and his songs have inspired

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  • Doc Watson: A Life in Music

    January 21, 2025 | by John Lawless

    The University of North Carolina Press has released a new biography on one of that state's most influential native sons, Doc Watson. Doc Watson: A Life in Music, by Eddie Huffman, relates the history and career of the blind guitarist whose

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  • On This Day #69: Doc Watson at the Boone Fiddlers Convention

    July 4, 2023 | by Richard Thompson

    On this day….  On July 4, 1941, 18-year-old Arthel Lane 'Doc' Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) played at the Boone Fiddlers Convention at the Appalachian State Teacher's College (now known as Appalachian State University), in Boone, North Carolina.

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  • Tommy Emmanuel and Billy Strings jam on Doc’s Guitar and Black Mountain Rag

    April 26, 2023 | by John Lawless

    Attention Doc Watson fans and flatpick guitar lovers... Two of the premier steel string guitarists of our age have released a live video of their recorded tribute to Doc. Tommy Emmanuel and Billy Strings cut a medley of two instrumentals long

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  • My Name Is Merle documentary debuts at MerleFest ’23

    April 3, 2023 | by John Lawless

    MerleFest has some big news to announce as they celebrate their 35th year in 2023, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doc Watson, who launched the festival in 1988 in memory of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, who

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  • MerleFest celebrates two major milestones in 2023

    February 9, 2023 | by John Lawless

    The venerable MerleFest, held in April each year in Wilkesboro, NC, is set to celebrate two meaningful anniversaries at the 2023 festival. First off, this will be the 35th annual MerleFest, and this year marks what would have been the

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  • Doc at 100 show in 2023, for Doc Watson’s 100th birthday

    August 18, 2022 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • John McEuen book on the making of Will The Circle Be Unbroken in August

    July 25, 2022 | by Pamm Tucker

    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

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