Main Street Amherst is hosting Cabin Fever Craft Night from 6-8:30 p.m., Jan. 25, in downtown Amherst, where businesses will be in charge of hosting a class specific to what it offers to guests. The ...

Doc Watson was the finest guitar picker of his time. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos via Getty Images Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony ...

After finishing a powerful rendition of "Deep River Blues," Doc Watson paused to share a personal insight with the audience. "I'm playing about a third slower than I used to play," said the legendary ...

HONORING DOC: From left, Jack Hinshelwood, T. Michael Coleman, Jack Lawrence and Wayne Henderson will perform at Blue Ridge Jamboree: Doc at 100. Photo courtesy of Friends of the Blue Ridge As a ...

The long anticipated Doc Watson’s Market, 275 S. Main St. in Amherst, officially opened its doors to the public April 7 as it welcomed guests to enjoy their “healthy made simple” lifestyle. Founded by ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A longtime ETSU professor’s three-year project to produce a Doc Watson CD box set has netted him two Grammy Award nominations — the eighth and ninth of Ted Olson’s career.

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 ...

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, ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Doc Watson is at an age when the old-timey songs he plays have a particular poignancy, particularly the church songs that tell of being "carried away" or "going over to the other ...