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  • Guitar picking master Doc Watson dies in NC at 89

    You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson's music. The rush of a mountain stream, the steady creak of a mule in leather harness plowing rows in topsoil and the echoes of ancient sounds made by a vanishing people were an intrinsic part of the folk musician's powerful, homespun sound.


  • ** FILE ** In this March 15, 2000 photo, master flatpicker Doc Watson talks about his long and successful musical career at his home in Deep Gap, N.C. Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician, died Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at a hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89. (AP Photo/Karen Tam, File)

    Taking Names: Folk legend Doc Watson dies at 89

    You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson's music. The rush of a mountain stream, the steady creak of a mule in leather harness plowing rows in topsoil and the echoes of ancient sounds made by a vanishing people were an intrinsic part of the folk musician's powerful, homespun sound.


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