Doc Watson

RALEIGH, N.C. -- 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...

Chris Graythen, Getty Images WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson is in critical condition Friday at a North Carolina hospital after falling at his home in Deep Gap earlier this week. A spokeswoman at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem says Watson remains in critical condition Friday morning...

When John Oates released 'Mississippi Mile,' an album of Americana cover tunes and odes to the Hall and Oates member's musical roots, he included a personal take on the disastrous flooding that took place in Nashville last May. "I feel so bad for that area, which has just been hammered, year after year," Oates told Spinner...

Sounds Like: The timeless country sounds of Loretta Lynn or Patty Loveless Influenced By: Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson Why She's Blowing Up OurStage: At Merlefest, the annual Americana music festival in North Carolina, Wendy's song 'Runaround' received a Chris Austin Songwriting Award...