RIP Doc Watson

[mannish]

I have never seen anyone better (in many ways) than Doc Watson. Doesn't
get better
L

On 5/29/2012 8:28 PM, Pam wrote:
> He gave so much and encompassed so many different kinds of music
> including blues.  Time for me to break out the Old Time Music at
> Clarence Ashley's for some really down to earth music.
>
>
> Jimmy Jacobs wrote:
>
>> Breaking News Alert
>> The New York Times
>> Tuesday, May 29, 2012 -- 8:38 PM EDT
>> -----
>>
>> Doc Watson, Renowned Guitarist and Folk Singer, Dies
>>
>> Doc Watson, the guitarist and folk singer whose flat-picking style
>> elevated
>> the acoustic guitar to solo status in bluegrass and country music, and
>> whose interpretations of traditional American music profoundly
>> influenced
>> generations of folk and rock guitarists, died on Tuesday in
>> Winston-Salem,
>> N.C. He was 89.
>>
>> Mr. Watson, who had been blind since he was a year old, died in a
>> hospital
>> after recently undergoing abdominal surgery, The Associated Press
>> quoted a
>> hospital spokesman as saying.
>>
>> Mr. Watson, who came to national attention during the folk music
>> revival of
>> the early 1960s, injected a note of authenticity into a movement
>> awash in
>> protest songs and bland renditions of traditional tunes. In a sweetly
>> resonant, slightly husky baritone, he sang old hymns, ballads and
>> country
>> blues he had learned growing up in the northwestern corner of North
>> Carolina, which has produced fiddlers, banjo pickers and folk singers
>> for
>> generations.
>>
>> His mountain music came as a revelation to the folk audience, as did his
>> virtuoso guitar playing. Unlike most country and bluegrass musicians,
>> who
>> thought of the guitar as a secondary instrument for providing rhythmic
>> backup, Mr. Watson executed the kind of flashy, rapid-fire melodies
>> normally played by a fiddle or a banjo. His style influenced a
>> generation
>> of young musicians learning to play the guitar as folk music achieved
>> national popularity.
>>
>> “He is single-handedly responsible for the extraordinary increase in
>> acoustic flat-picking and fingerpicking guitar performance,” said Ralph
>> Rinzler, the folklorist who discovered Mr. Watson in 1960. “His
>> flat-picking style has no precedent in earlier country music history.”
>>
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