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Doc Watson at 100: The virtuoso guitarist brought Appalachian music to a worldwide audience and influenced generations of musicians Doc Watson’s popularity and influence came from his virtuosic guitar playing, powerful voice, broad musical taste, folksy storytelling and lack of pretense.

#HBD to Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson, one of the greatest guitarists of the American folk traditions, who would have turned 102 today.

On the centennial of his birth, we had a Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies explain Watson's enduring influence #MusicSky

Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West* In North Central Montana, a land-based conflict centered on the environmental organization American Prairie sparked the formation of the “Save the Cowboy, Stop the American Prairie Reserve” Facebook ....

In my first Bluesky post, I wanted to share my first solo-authored piece recently published in Rural Sociology.