Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Country Music Icon Doc Watson Passed Away at 89

The legendary country music icon passed away last Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at the age of 89 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is a blind guitarist who captured the minds and hearts of his fans as well followers around the world because of his very fast flat-picking strums. Nobody knows the cause of his death because the story is currently in progress. Furthermore, Doc was born in the 3rd day of March, 1923 and he is also known in playing folk, blues, and gospel songs aside from the one that made him a famous musician.


His legacy can be remembered by the people who used to worked with him during his time and his surviving family members who knows too much about him. And he is also one of the pioneering artist in music industry who's name has been written in a historical archives. Aside from the above mentioned genre, he is also recognized as a bluegrass player way back in his early age.

He is also common in Grammy night because of his eight prestigious awards. No words for memorial service of Doc for now but you can try to look around in Twitter and Facebook to know more about of what happened and to discover the cause of his death. Before we can forget, he died surrounded by his loved ones in Wake Forest Medical Center.

To know more the contribution of this man, here's a video of Doc playing his Tennessee Stud:



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