Guitar Techniques

ACOUSTIC COUNTRY

Arthel Lane ‘Doc’ Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina on March 3rd 1923. Blind from early age, he taught himself guitar on a cheap Stella acoustic and learned the music of his early country influences, the Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers. Watson was a master fingerpicker and flatpicker and this column will focus on the plectrum

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