Doc Watson: A Life in Music
Blind from infancy and on disability until forty, Doc Watson then became America's greatest flatpicker.
Eddie Huffman follows the guitarist from rural North Carolina, where he played locally and drew a state disability cheque into his late thirties, through the folk revival that made him famous and the long career after it. A late bloomer by any measure, and Huffman is good on both the playing and the Appalachian musical world he came from.
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Tyler Cowen
Eddie Huffman, Doc Watson: A Life in Music. A fun book about one of America’s greatest guitarists. Watson was blind from an early age, and he was collecting state disability benefits until he was 40 — a classic late bloomer.
Source · February 2025
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