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Within the latter half of the 20th century there have been three pre-eminently influential folk/country guitarists: Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, and Arthel “Doc” Watson, a flat-picking genius from Deep Gap, NEW YORK. Unlike another two, Watson is at middle age group before attaining any interest. After 1960, though, when Watson …

As tough because the life of a specialist musician will need to have experienced the ’30s, the plight of the Carolina millworker was even worse. This was the backdrop that Dorsey and Howard Dixon had been born into, because they and their family members all worked within the mills of …

The very first white bluesman to record, Frank Hutchison recorded for a short three years. However the 32 music that he documented between 1926 and 1929 inspired everyone from Leo Kottke and Spider John Koerner to Bob Dylan and Paul Geremia. Doc Watson protected both edges of Hutchinson’s initial single, …

The sticky symbol from the tarheel being practically a franchise within the Carolinas, it comes as no real surprise that two different old-time rings used the name Carolina Tar Heels, this later on version of the group actually forcing the very first someone to change its name to the initial …