S.O.D. "Bottle of Wine" by Doc Watson & Merle Watson

8/5/2017      Here's a successful musician who lived his entire life in his hometown.  Kind of an oddity.  Deep Gap, North Carolina was the place, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway.  His career lasted 59 years right up to when he left us in 2012.  Born Arthel Lane Watson in 1923, before his first birthday he lost his sight due to an eye infection.  He played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and sang.  

     In 1953 he joined a country and western swing band that had no fiddle player.  This prompted him to learn fiddle songs on his electric guitar just as Hank Garland and Grady Martin did.  Watson sites country singer and musician Jimmy Rodgers as his greatest influence. Rodgers passed in 1933.  Watson dabbled in the genres of country, Bluegrass, gospel, blues and folk.  This song, just like many others, he played with his son Merle.