{"id":3468,"date":"2012-04-26T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2012-04-26T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T00:48:10","slug":"blues-country-and-folk-guitar-with-doc-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/blues-country-and-folk-guitar-with-doc-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues, Country And Folk Guitar With Doc Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3469\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blues-country-and-folk-guitar-with-doc-watson\/398px-doc_watson_sugar_grove\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3469\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3469\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/398px-Doc_Watson_Sugar_Grove-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doc Watson is one of the great American folk and blues guitarists in the music industry. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The great guitarist, Doc Watson, has become one of the best musicians and American music historians to play the guitar.\u00a0 Watson is an avid flat picker and finger picker, performing with some of the best American folk and blues musicians in the music industry.\u00a0 I wanted to share some of Doc Watson&#8217;s music with you by collecting a few video performances that he is featured on.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy these performances as much as I have!<\/p>\n<p>The first video features Doc Watson with his late son, Merle Watson, and their rendition of the classic song, &#8220;Summertime.&#8221;\u00a0 Enjoy the performance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kNYHJIr0ur4&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kNYHJIr0ur4&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/kNYHJIr0ur4&#8243; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doc Watson plays the blues in this next video, specifically the &#8220;Milk Cow Blues.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TXYycvVKJlA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TXYycvVKJlA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/TXYycvVKJlA&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lastly, Doc Watson performs the &#8220;Black Mountain Rag.&#8221;\u00a0 Watson even includes an introduction to the song that talks about his history with the tune.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XdUrg2Cqxdw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XdUrg2Cqxdw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/XdUrg2Cqxdw&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Doc Watson lost his sight at a young age, it hasn&#8217;t kept him from playing good music for all the world to share.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed this feature about the great American guitarist, Doc Watson.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great guitarist, Doc Watson, has become one of the best musicians and American music historians to play the guitar.\u00a0 Watson is an avid flat picker and finger picker, performing with some of the best American folk and blues musicians in the music industry.\u00a0 I wanted to share some of Doc Watson&#8217;s music with you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}