Deeper Roots revisits the music of Doc Watson. We’ll listen to the sounds of The Delmore Brothers, The Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers, all major influences on Doc’s music and we’ll also hear from his contemporaries including Chet Atkins, Earl Scruggs, and Ricky Skaggs.
For the most part though, it’s going to be about Doc’s music and family. We’ll hear Doc in his own words, in duets with his son Merle, and from a recent box set of home recordings called “Milestones”, assembled as a scrapbook of his career by his daughter Nancy and Roy Andrade, Doc’s manager and confidant as well as member of the bluegrass and old time country music studies faculty at East Tennessee State University. Join Dave Stroud for some very special music in this edition of Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music.