Happy Doc Watson's Birthday

[Guzzistajohn]

Would have been 98 today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXiXlwiZNGI

[Ncdan]

Doc and Merle had a unique style of picking that I have found hard to duplicate and learn. It was not finger picking or flat picking but a combination of the two.

[Guzzistajohn]

Pretty sure Doc got his chops from Merle Travis, and Merle W. from Doc. They were fantastic weren't they? An old firefighter that lived next door played me that song what I was 12. By the time I was 16, I was sneaking in the back door of a club called the Half a Hill in Springfield, Mo. to see him. I was hooked. Probably saw him 20 times, I guess I was a "Dochead" 

[oldbike54]

 Yeah , his hybrid style was pretty amazing . Nappy B day Doc 

 Dusty

[Chuck in Indiana]

Pretty sure Doc got his chops from Merle Travis, and Merle W. from Doc. They were fantastic weren't they? An old firefighter that lived next door played me that song what I was 12. By the time I was 16, I was sneaking in the back door of a club called the Half a Hill in Springfield, Mo. to see him. I was hooked. Probably saw him 20 times, I guess I was a "Dochead" 

There's a reason it's called "Travis picking." 

[kingoffleece]

A TRUE master

[Guzzistajohn]

There's a reason it's called "Travis picking." 

ZACKLY!

Merle Travis in the 1953 Movie "From Here to Eternity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj4wzDQEdoo  Reenlistment Blues