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caper_est ([personal profile] caper_est) wrote2012-05-30 09:39 am
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Doc Watson, one of my all-time favourite musicians - master of flatpicking guitar and of the mountain tradition in American folk music - is gone at the age of 89.  A week seldom goes by without at least one of his songs springing through my head.  Guy Clark sang of him in Dublin Blues:

I have seen the David
Seen the Mona Lisa, too
And I have heard Doc Watson play "Columbus Stockade Blues".

That pretty much sums up my feelings about him.

Man, that man is going to be missed.