Saturday, January 12, 19 14 I HE MICHIGAN DAILY Pamp FIVLS Saudy aur ,1WIlIH I~(A AL rua v t; DocD outC By GLORIA JANE SMITH Doc' Watson and his son Mere. Now, there's a couple of fellas who can teach you in a minute what a gee-tar's s'pozed to sound like. Or better yet, you can join them tonight for an entire eve- ning at King Pleasure as they complete a three-night engage- ment in Ann Arbor. Doc says the music is "what we feel, what we think they'd1 en- joy." It's a potpourri of old time country bl'ies that can find them both a little "quick and devilish" with the tune "Momma Don't Want That Music Played Around Here," or Doc picking Travis- style with Merle backing him up with some flat picking on "Deep River Blues," or Doc yodeling on Jimmy Rodgers' "He's in the Jailhouse Now." During the gaps between songs, the blind musician fills in string- adjusting time with anecdotes in a real down-home friendly fash- ion. "I can't put on an act," he explained when we talked be- tween sets. "I guess I'm not a atson trums Oun tr very good trouper, but I guess that's the way it is. Friendliness is not an act." Not on stage and not back- stage, where he shook hands and smiled to a handful of admireis who managed their way in his room . . . a young chap with a camera who explained "I'm just a fan of yours" (Doc said, ok, take a picture) . . . a classical French horn player who told Doc how impressed he was with his genious and genuineness (D o c said, son, you say things to make a country boy cry) . . . and a bamboo flute maker who pre- sented Doc with a gift of one of his hand-made instruments. Born in North Carolina over fifty years ago, Doc has lived there all of his life. "Why move away from the place I love? I love the countryside." He leaves the open country of Deep Gap often enough as it is. "Cities are too rushed, have too many strang- ers. A city can be a very lonely place. I'd rather ba a' home than on the road. I guess Pm old fa'hioned." ARTS -- Blues But then, he'd rather play mu- sic than do anything else - even if it does mean extensive travel. Music has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. In school, he was expose] to classical music in ntsx c apprec- iation classes. His father played harmonica and his mother knew "all the ballads." As a young child, he found a harmonica in his stocking every Christmas. At the age of thir- teen, his father bought him his first guitar. "Daddy showed me a guitar one day and said if I'd learn how to play a tune on that thing, then he'd buy me one. What Daddy didn't know, was that I'd already learned a few chords at school. He 9onght me a twelve dollar Stelb. It play- ed like a wire fence." He began to pick up the thum- strum of Maybelle Carter and then that of Jimmy Rogers. T- day he's mastered a skilled styI of his own. Professional performing didn't become a reality for Doe dWt- son until he was in his late thr- ties. His income (gleaned from such tasks as piano tuning) wa subsidized at that time by St funds for the handicaoped. It was the "desire to be indenend- ent from charity" that hoi-ed him up on stage at Wabash Col- lege in- Indiana for his f i, s t concert performance. "At the time, I didn't think there was any market for old time music and I didn't think I was that good of .a musician," Doc explained. Time has proven him wrong on both counts. Two years later, he was joined by Merle for their debut togeth- er at the 1968 Berkley festival. On stage, he took with him a nickname that he'd had ever since he was nineteen. "T h a t summer, I was working on a short handle radio station," he remembers. "Everyone thought 'Doc' was a good radio name, and it's stuck ever since." As for lifestyle, Doc says he doesn't enjoy the "carousing and other things that go with music.' Occasionally, he'll have a glass of wine with dinner. In his spare time, he likes to tinker around the house. "For example," he explained, "the other day I split firewood and then I oiled the lock in the bathroom door, and then . . . I put a new trap in the kitchen sink." He enjoys the music of contem- poraries Pery Como, Glen Camp- bell, Bill Withers and C a r o 1 e King. "I love classical, too," he added. "The Moody Blues, espec- ially their work with the London Symphony, are one of my fav- orites." The list of old time fav- orites, like Skit Ashley and Jim- mie Rogers, is endless. Doc and Merle are now re- cording artists and appear in clubs throughout the States, from one coast to the other. Rarely, do they tour abroad. In 1968, they performed in Africa as part of a cultural exchange program. "It was like boot camp in the Army," Doc remembers. 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