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Merlefest at 21, Doc Watson at 85: Festival Notes

A Great American Music Festival And Its Host At The Crossroads


by Derek Halsey


"In 1934, Dad made me a little home-made banjo,” remembers Doc Watson, on the historic three-CD album of performances and conversation recorded with David Holt called “Legacy.” “It had a cat skin head on it. First he put a groundhog skin he...

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