# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doc-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:15:13.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doc-watson"
name: "Doc Watson"
slug: "doc-watson"
description: "Arthel Lane \"Doc\" Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His fingerpicking and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm."
tagline: "American musician (1923–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doc_Watson_Sugar_Grove.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1923-03-03"
deathDate: "2012-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.45247866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914593/"
    handle:    "nm0914593"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.docsguitar.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump