Biography
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His fingerpicking and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Raising Sand
2007
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
1972
Doc Watson
1964
Byrdmaniax
1971
Reflections
1980
Dirt, Silver & Gold
1976
Washington County
1970
Arkansas Traveler
1992
Folkways: A Vision Shared (A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly)
1988
Live & Pickin'
1979
Memories
1975
Two Days In November
1974
L.A. Turnaround
1974
Elementary Doctor Watson
1972
Ballads From Deep Gap
1971
Southbound
1966
Hear The Whistles Blow Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs Sing Songs Of Rivers & Rails
The Essential Doc Watson
Country Music
2010
Asshole
1990
The Freed Man
1989
Thirteen
1986
Alive! In Concert
1986
High Country Snows
1985
Credited work
1,015 releases · 172 albums · active 1961–2026
- Performance · 4,193
- Other credits · 1,157
- Production · 15
Studios: The Bennett House · Sound Emporium · Electro Magnetic Studios · The Village Recorder
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Doc & Merle Watson
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Bert Jansch
- The Smith Sisters (2)
- Flatt & Scruggs
- Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- George Hamilton IV