{"id":105346,"date":"2018-01-24T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=105346"},"modified":"2023-05-31T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:53:53","slug":"watch-doc-watson-demonstrate-his-picking-approach-to-deep-river-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/watch-doc-watson-demonstrate-his-picking-approach-to-deep-river-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Doc Watson Demonstrate His Picking Approach to \u201cDeep River Blues\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to overstate the influence of Doc Watson, the blind guitarist and singer who wowed folk audiences with his virtuosic picking from the beginning of his career in the early 1960s until his death, at 89, in 2012. Pretty much any acoustic guitarist with a knack for flashy leads owes a debt to Watson, who helped elevate the guitar from a time-keeping instrument to a commanding lead voice.<\/p>\n

Watson grew up in Western North Carolina\u2014a breeding ground for banjoists, fiddlers, and other folk-music types\u2014and he maintained a deep connection to mountain music. But he had open ears and always put his own imprint on traditional music. Case in point is Watson\u2019s treatment of \u201cDeep River Blues,\u201d first heard on his self-titled 1964 debut album<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The text above is excerpted from Adam Perlmutter’s analysis of \u201cDeep River Blues,\u201d which originally appeared in <\/em>Acoustic Guitar’s\u00a0February 2018 issue<\/a><\/em>. Watch the video to see Watson himself demonstrate the picking moves behind his interpretation of this acoustic classic, and pick up the February issue for the full text of the article, performance notes, and a full-song transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to overstate the influence of Doc Watson, the blind guitarist and singer who wowed folk audiences with his virtuosic picking from the beginning of his career in the early 1960s until his death, at 89, in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":104790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1655],"tags":[517],"ppma_author":[1541],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AG302ww_docwatson.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1541,"user_id":24,"is_guest":0,"slug":"adam-perlmutterstringletter-com","display_name":"Adam Perlmutter","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adam-Perlmutter.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adam-Perlmutter.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"Perlmutter","first_name":"Adam","description":"Adam Perlmutter holds a bachelor of music degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. He is the editor of Acoustic Guitar<\/i>."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138868,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105346\/revisions\/138868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105346"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=105346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}