Like the bluegrass genre itself, Doc Watson’s annual tribute festival to his late son, guitarist/banjo player Eddy Merle Watson, has grown up, spread its wings and taken off. Back in 1987, the first ...
Doc Watson draws a stand-room-only crowd to the Blues Tent at Jazz Fest. Bill Monroe may have been called the Father of Bluegrass, but perhaps no voice is more familiar to the genre than the legendary ...
In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...
A new Doc Watson collection from Craft Recordings and a great Sam Cooke gospel record for Record Store Day Black Friday have been announced. Craft Recordings has been on tear in 2021 delivering some ...
In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...
The past, present and future of MerleFest, a bluegrass and roots music festival in NC. Go behind the scenes of MerleFest, an annual bluegrass and roots music festival that attracts thousands to ...
"Doc Watson: A Life in Music” by Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...