American guitarist Doc Watson died in NC hospital when his age 89

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Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player,songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy

Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Doc Watson Biography:

Name: Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson 

Born: March 3, 1923 (age 89), Deep Gap

Appears in: The Three Pickers, Doc's Guitar Jam, Legends of Flatpicking Guitar, 

 More Awards: Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance

Record labels: Vanguard Records, Folkways Records, United Artists Records, Flying Fish Records, Sugar Hill Records.

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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. Watson won seven Grammy wards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded. He performed with his son Merle for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985, in an accident on the family farm.

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Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina. According to Watson on his three CD biographical recording Legacy, he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname. A fan in the crowd shouted "Call him Doc!" presumably in reference to the literary character Sherlock Holmes' sidekick Doctor Watson. The name had stuck ever since.

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Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday at a North Carolina hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager.

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In late May 2012, Watson was listed in critical condition but was responsive at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after undergoing colon surgery.Watson fell at his home earlier in the week, after which he was sent to Watauga Medical Center in nearby Boone, NC. Watson was not seriously injured in the fall when the medical condition prompted the surgery which required him to be airlifted to Winston-Salem.doc watson chords, doc watson, doc watson wiki, doc watsons, doc watson dies, doc watson biography, doc watson photo, doc watson guiter.

Watson died on May 29, 2012 at Wake Forest Baptist at the age of 89.