Doc Watson has died

[J.A.W.]

Doc Watson has died. He was 89.

[Chalupa]

RIP. What a picker!

[Brownian Motion]

Doc was a great American artist, a fountainhead.

[.:.impossible]

I saw this on the local news this morning. Merlefest will never be the same.

[alocispepraluger102]

...........listening to some doc and bill now.

we will never see their likes again.

on one of doc's monuments is inscribed "just one of the people."

My link

Edited May 31, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[jeffcrom]

So long to a great American musician. I'm glad I got to hear him a couple of times - once while Merle was still alive, and once later.

Some years back, I heard a really touching radio interview with Doc. Apparently he always felt somewhat guilty about the course of Merle's life - Merle just wanted to be a farmer, maybe playing on his porch in the evenings, but Doc felt that he needed Merle with him on the road, for both musical and logistical reasons. After Merle's death, Doc wished he had let Merle be the farmer he wanted to be.