Let it rain, let it pour
Let it rain a whole lot more
Cause I've got them Deep River Blues
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America has lost yet another master musician. Doc Watson has left us and left a giant hole in the musical world. Blind since (almost) birth - he lost his sight to an infection as a baby - Doc turned the guitar into an instrument of magic. With his flat- and fingerpicking and his smooth-as-butter baritone voice he made the most urban of folks start listening to "country" (NOT Country and Western) music.
Along about Eighteen-Twenty-Five
I left Tennessee very much alive
And I never would have got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been riding that Tennesee stud.
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Doc started performing professionally in the early 60s during the "folk boom." When the boom died out he kept right on playing what he did best, old country tunes from his Appalachian roots, hymns and lightning fast picking of instrumental fiddle tunes and guitar originals.
Way down in Columbus Georgia
Lord I wish I was back in Tennessee
Way down in columbus stockade
All my friends have turned my back on me.
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As country musician Guy Clark sings (in his Dublin Blues),
"I have seen the David, seen the Mona Lisa too, and I have heard Doc Watson sing Columbus Stockade Blues".
Many a guitar pickin' folkie got his start listen to Doc and his guitar. I'm not an "angels" kind of guy but I know Doc was. So I hope he's up tuning up with the Angel Band.
To Hell with the harps. Let's have some great flatpickin'!
RIP Doc!