Whether you are an expert in folk music or if you can’t tell a banjo from a mandolin, a new biography, “Doc Watson: A Life in Music,” by Eddie Huffman, will draw you in. Along the way you’ll discover not just Doc’s story, but the rich history of our state and the impact of its traditional music.

Huffman, a Burlington native and current Greensboro resident, confesses that he was more a fan of the pop music and rock-n-roll of the 70’s and 80’s of his youth, “dismissing country music as that cornball stuff they played on Hee-Haw.” But he poured himself into Doc’s world: tracking down rare recordings, listening to every album, combing through archives across the state and beyond, watching old television clips, reading concert reviews, bootlegs, radio transcripts — and more. Folks in the High

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