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Doc Watson, 89, folk guitarist who influenced generations
2012
Overview
His mountain music came as a revelation to the folk audience, as did his virtuoso guitar playing. Unlike most country and bluegrass musicians, who thought of the guitar as a secondary instrument for providing rhythmic backup, Mr. Watson executed the kind of flashy, rapid-fire melodies normally played by a fiddle or a banjo. His style influenced a generation of young musicians learning to play the guitar as folk music achieved national popularity. \"He is single-handedly responsible for the extraordinary increase in acoustic flat-picking and fingerpicking guitar performance,\" said Ralph Rinzler, the folklorist who discovered Mr. Watson in 1960. \"His flat-picking style has no precedent in earlier country music history.\" Quiet and unassuming offstage, Mr. Watson played down his virtuoso guitar playing as nothing more than \"country pickin.\"' He told interviewers that had he not been blind, he would have become an auto mechanic and been just as happy.
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New York Times Company
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