I passed him once at the airport in Dallas. I said Doc you are the boss picker. He said thank you neighbor. It was a thrill for me just to speak to him because after all he was the boss picker.
When I was kid of 17, I was working at the Redgate Bluegrass Festival in East TN. My job was to guard Doc Watson's trailer. He told me to come inside and join him. He was super nice and talkative. He pretty much talked my ear off, mostly about how he had just finished installing his TV antenna on his roof back home. He said, "People don't think a blind man can do anything, but I can do anything I want to!" Only later in life did I realize how unique and special he truly was.
I've been learning this song on guitar. Absolutely love Doc's music...have learned many of his songs...one of my all time favorites album "Doc & Dawg"...I'm a big Mississippi Jon Hurt fan too! (And a forever Deadhead)...😁👍
An American Treasure and my youth all in one. -Raised in the Ozarks been pickin' Jimmie's songs since I started, and Doc does it best. Where would we be without that family? God Bless Doc, Merle, Annie, Arnold, Willard, Rosa Lee, -God bless them all.
I met him at Bean Blossom Folk Festival in the early 70's. Amazing. Beautiful. Real. He told us he would have been an electrical engineer if he had had his sight. First time in my life I was ever grateful for someone's "handicap."
Doc at his absolute finest. Im only 16, but Doc has long been my hero, and my inspiration as a young guitarist, and i hope to be able to see him, before he dies.
@IBG67 YOU'VE DISCOVERED THE BEST! I hope you can see this legendary flatpicker before he's gone, his guitar skills have diminished with age, still better than I ever hope to be. His stories you'll remember forever
When it's peach picking time in Georgia apple picking time in Tennessee Cotton picking time in Mississippi that everybody picks on me And when it's roundup time in Texas the cowboys make whoopee Way down in old Carolina it's gal picking time to me [ yodel ] They got the bluegrass in old Kentucky Virginia's where they do the swing Carolina I'm coming to you to spend the spring Arkansas I hear you calling and I hope I'll see you soon There I'm gonna do a little picking underneath the Ozark moon [ guitar - piano - dobro - guitar ] Now when hard times overtake me I won't let the blues get me For I've got a sweetheart in old Caroline and I know she waits for me Soon I'm a goin' to see her and I know that won't be long Till we gonna pick a little cabin to call our mountain home [ guitar ] When the folks begin to pick the cotton then I pick a weddin' ring And we'll go to town to pick a little gown for the wedding in the spring I hope the preacher knows his business cause he can't fool me When it's peach picking time in Georgia it's gal picking time to me
@emilylikestorawr If this is true you're wasting the opportunity of a lifetime, let alone great company. Don't let it slip away, because once he's gone, he's gone. I speak from experience. ;-)
