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Who is Damon Dunn? Have you ever heard of him?
At the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, he could be described as unassuming.
In a room full of doctors, lawyers, retired millionaires and former professional football players, Dunn didn't really seem to stick out.
Back when he was a kid on his farm in Fort Worth, Texas, he never thought he would be in this room. He was the keynote speaker Sunday night for the Ronnie Lott IMPACT Trophy annual event.
John Hamilton, the Pacific Club president and a Newport Beach resident, was thrilled to land Dunn as the speaker. Simply put, Dunn has quite a story to tell.
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The Lott IMPACT Trophy is awarded to a college football defensive player who excels on the field and is also leader in community service efforts.
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Dunn was recruited to Stanford by the late Bill Walsh, who also once spoke at the Lott Trophy ceremony. There have been several great speakers at the event in Newport Beach since it began in 2004. Frank Gifford was a speaker, as was Keith Jackson. Last year, Peter Ueberrorth spoke.
So who is Dunn?
After Stanford, Dunn played a bit in the NFL, struggling to find his place as a pro. But this story isn't really about football. Dunn merely used the game to help in his quest for success.
After football, Dunn went into real estate and made his mark there. Now he's trying politics. Who knows where this will take him, but he wants to give it his best shot to give back as much as he can, he says.
"I'm going to stay in politics," Dunn said. "I felt my life could be greater than making money. I have the need to help people. I think I can do that with public policy. There's a reason I went to the worst schools and then I went to the greatest schools, Stanford and Harvard. I have friends with GEDs and I have friends with PHDs. I lived on welfare and I lived with little needs. I can use that. I want to use that to make an impact on people's lives."
Dunn not only made an impact on the Lott Trophy winner and candidates, but he also impressed Ronnie Lott himself.
"Damon's one of those guys that there should be an award named after him," said Lott, the Hall of Fame defensive back who starred with the 49ers, Raiders and Jets. "With him you talk about somebody that really embodies the IMPACT (integrity, maturity, performance, academics, community and tenacity) award. I'm just excited that he's here. I believe he's going to change our political scenery."
As for rags-to-riches stories, J.J. Watt also provided a doozy. The Wisconsin defensive end took home the Ronnie Lott Trophy. He worked at a Pizza Hut during his first year with the Badgers when he was walk-on. He eventually won a scholarship.
Watt started his own charity foundation, the Justin J. Watt Foundation, to benefit local elementary and middle schools that lack funding. Now he has a Lott Trophy as he prepares with the Badgers for the Rose Bowl, against TCU.
That was perfect for Dunn's theme at the dinner. Dunn spoke about character and making an impact not just in football, but in life. He talked about using the platform that football can give to make a great impact in life.
Dunn had football in his life, but he's also had his mother. Dunn, who is single, brought his mother, Ramona, with him to the dinner. He credits Ramona for inspiring him to become great.
"My mom lifted my expectations," Dunn said. "It wasn't that the people around me didn't have expectations. It's that they had low expectations and they met them. My mom kept telling me that my education was, 'your way up and your way out.' For me to believe in it that was the difference.
"When I began to believe that's when success started. Not when I got to Stanford. Not when I got to Harvard. Not when I got to the NFL or not when I made my first million when I got in the business. It's when I started to believe my mom that I could achieve things despite my current disposition."
Now I know Dunn, a powerful man.


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Julie told Novinite.com of the torment that the bees have caused the couple and their elderly Bulgarian neighbors; "It's almost impossible to walk around the garden, hang out washing to dry or even walk to the car without getting pestered or even stung,our dogs have been stung, visitors have been stung, we can't have BBQ's, friends find it too much to be pestered by the bees so we rarely sit in the garden & we no longer use the double gates next to the hives it's just not worth it so they have been blocked up. Imagine the noise when you have almost 80 hives - the 'drone' noise from the bees is very intimidating."
Novinite.com contacted the local authorities regarding the problem and are still waiting for a reply. Julie informs us that she contacted the local Elhovo municipality in July and also the local department of the Agriculture Ministry, but her calls have fallen on deaf ears.
"From the lack of help we have experienced we would next be advised to go to court, but please ask yourselves this honestly if I was British would I even bother spending more money to get this to court if the local Mayor cannot and the local Councils will not help?" Julie continued.
Julie has asked her neighbor to move some of the bee hives elsewhere but he has taken no action and loopholes in local legislation seem to allow him to keep his huge number of bees in the residential area.
"This matter has caused so much stress and made life so unpleasant that we actually asked about selling the house to buy somewhere else- but noone will buy with that huge number of hives so close to the house, so we are stuck" Julie concluded.
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Thanks for all your advice,unfortunately I know for a fact that the daughter in law is a lawyer for the Min' of Agriculture, and it was the lawyer that we approached about solving the matter who said that we didn't have much chance of winning our case! but was still happy to go to court at only 400 lev for his fees!
You are quite right Elhovo is the nearest town to us. I was advised by Henry who originally wrote the story to contact the local authorities and request a 'proverka' he then gave me the telephone number, I tried to do it yesterday only realising that the dreaded bank holidays were here so I'll have to ring again on Wednesday!
The law out here is so very different from in the UK, that we obviously have no option and have to believe what we're told! it gets very frustrating & very stressful !
Thankfully the cooler weather is coming so not so much trouble with the bees, but the big question is now do we persue this through the winter hoping to get it settled before next spring or wait until then so we can take up to minute pictures of just how many hives are next to our house?? I hope your uncle is successful in his case against his neighbour and thanks again for your advice I've copied it down so I have it to use when the time comes :-)
Dear Percy,
WHO told you you do not have ANY chance of winning?
I do not know how much the BG courts charge as I never parctised law in Bulgaria but
probably in the REGIONAL COURT of Elhovo(I did not read all posts...NO time fo such a nonsense but I think you reside in Elhovo,do you?)
you can represent yourself.
The address of the REGIONAL COURT is Pirot Street.2.
Go there and ask the clerk if you can file a complain in this court?
Get someone who speaks Bulgarian with you or a translator.
Good luck!
Percy,if you tell me where you reside,I will be able to find out which Court has a
Hello PERCY,
If the bee-keeper is so stubborn and does NOT take ANY REGARDS of health and life of
his neighbours,
you do not have aanother choice but to sue!
My uncle in varna is also suing his neighbour FOR RIGHT OF WAY.
And please,please,DO NOT BRING THE ISSUE OF BEING FOREIGNER TO THE JUDGE!
Just tell him/her,that THE NUMBER OF BEE-HIVES ON YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S PROPERTY
INCREASED SO SIGNIFFICANTLY,that IT PRESENT A DANGER TO YOUR
My son almost died 18 years ago as he was beaten by a wasp during his sleap.
We had had to take him to Charlottenburg Policlinic(Freie Universität Berlin) in the
middle of the night.
YOU MAY REPRESENT YOURSELF ..may be a solicitor is not necessery but I shall
recommend as you probably do not speak Bulgarian.
The LAW of TORTS gives you a right to QUIET ENJOYMENT AND PAECEFUL USE OF
YOUR PROPERTY and everybody,who violates these rights,ought to pay PUNITIVE
Oh,PERCY...PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE THE SAME!
In our law office we got a client,who wanted to sue his neighbour JUST because he
poored a bucket of rain water on his balcony!
Here,in Berlin if you make music after 10 pm they will file a suit next day!
Some years ago therewas a case,when one neighbour sued another,because she was
burning leaves in her OWN garden.
Hello Percy,
It seems you filed the suit in the wrong court.
I Civil Court has ONLY jurisdiction for damages and remedies.
It does NOT have the power to STOP your neighbour to extend his business or TO
REMOVE the bee-hives from his property.
ONLY the Administrative Court can iussue such an ORDER and make him to REMOVE the bees.
You must prove that A DANGER FOR YOUR HEALTH AND LIFE is evolving from this
junk-yard,where the bees are located.
In my opinion a CLASS SUIT will have success.
If you can convince ALL residents of the village to sign a petition(Do not tell them you
want to take him to court!) to the Administrative Court(probably a devision of the
District Court),I am sure you could convince the judge,that THOSE BEE-HIVES OUGHT
Especially as you say it is a RESIDENTIAL area and the MOST IMPORTANT you MUST
insist there is A DANGER FOR YOUR WELL-BEING!
I didn't tell Percy to live under a mosquito net, I said to build a pergola outside and to throw a mosquito net around it so there would be no bees bothering them while enjoying their outdoor space. Lots of people enclose their open porches with aluminum bug screens to keep the bugs away. If it works on mosquitoes, why not on bees?
Hello WickedWich,
you are MISGUAIDED,my dear,
as you think people here;in the wondeful civilized Europe are more compassionate,neighbourly,friendly,loving,caring,
trusting and whatsoever than in BULGARIA!
My neighbour filed a claim (Many years ago)at the Amtsgericht against another neighbor,because she was
burning leaves in her,OWN garden.
The Environment Orotection department of the BГњRGERAMT made her to pay a fine of DM 1000,.
How many bee hives did your family have? These poor Brits seem to be living next door to 80 bee hives. That's a lot of bees! How do you keep bees out of your hair and your clothing when there are hundreds of them around?
I had to laugh myself to death about your proposal to Percy to live under a mosquito net.
When I was a child ,my grandfather had also plenty of bee-hives...
we eat ONLY honey,my honey...NEVER SUGAR!
I was tought to be relaxed,when a bee approaches me and not to wave my hands...
this is the mistake,which many people here,in Grunewald,BERLIN do as here are may be
NOT civilized bees but wasps from the forest.
20 hives didnt cause much bother, certainly not enough to make a fuss over, remember as foreigners we do try to fit in and not cause a problem where there does not need to be one, but as time has gone on the number of hives grew and they did start to cause problems & put simply the more we told the keeper that the number of bees was becoming a problem -which he thought was amusing - the more hives he put in the garden! I don't want to take business away I just want him to move 40 or 60 hives that would still leave 20 beehives in the garden which isn't really a problem. He can become the biggest honey producer in BG as long as its not 4 meters from my front door!
Me personally I have NO desire to have bees...I'll get my honey from Kaufland thanks !!
We were advised to go to court for the very reason you said but were told that we'd not got much chance of winning and could end up paying a LOT of money in court costs - especially as the beekeepers daughter in law is a lawyer for the ministry of Agriculture!
We decided to go down what we thought was the common sense road - make him aware just how many people are effected and just how much it is spoiling life for people who live next to his hives,how dangerouse it can be, civil responcibility etc but unfortunately he does not care and the authorities seem even less interested- maybe because we're British I can't honestly say.
The scrap yard has nothing to do with us that was someone else.
Hello Percy,HOW do you want to prevent the expansion of his business?
WHY 20 bee-hives did not disturb you but 30 or 40 shall disturb you?
In order to get an injunctive relief,you ought to convince the judge,that
You mist plead,that the increased number of bee-hives is disturbing the peaceful
use of your house.
The same requirements apply for the crap yard owner in case you want to open a
garage in your back yard and take business from him.
Killing a few bees might give you negotiating power. If the bee keeper wants his bees to stay alive, he has to move the hives.
Well what can I say?...... after looking at the link I was inspired and I've bought a couple of the 'bats' !!
I seriously doubt if it'll make any difference but we'll have fun trying!
I might start taking names now for the 2010 summer tournament (or if its boring then yawnament!) If nothing else..... as you say we'll get fitter trying ;-)
If anyone else has any brill idea's I'd love to hear them!!


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Why you don't let a sports writer get up in front of a group of sportscasters and try to make a speech. It's quickly obvious why you're a writer. Especially when you go off script.
It's really, really nice to be recognized and appreciated.
And even nicer to be employed.
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There are too many other factors in play here.
As Bob Miller introduced me at Monday's 21st annual awards lunch for the Southern California Sports Broadcasters, the group appreciates the fact I'm the last remaining weekly columnist in the area writing about the media. They've given me this nice glass microphone as their token of that.
I hope not to break it by accident as I clear a space for it on my desk populated with stacks and stack of papers and things.
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Congrats Jessica! He is beautiful!
Congratulations!! What a cutie!
He is beautiful...Enjoy the few years you will have with him and document everything!!! Shouldn't be a problem for you as you are obviously a scrapper...lol
Congrats, Enjoy your new little one
Congratulations Jessica! Casper is really cute!
He is adorable!!! Congratulations!
Ah! What a peanut!!! Congrats!
Gorgeous, he's a real cutiepie. CONGRATS
Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby! I love his name. Can't wait to see him in layouts in the gallery!
Aww.... what a cutie! Congratulations!
Congratulations Jessica and family!
Congratulations Jessica!
Congrats, Jessica! and a Welcome to Casper!
I have friends that were due last week, my son works with them. But their may have their hands full with their little girl as she has still not made her appearance.
Don't forget some journaling! to accompany those precious photos! Praying you get some good sleep as well.
how wonderful to have a new baby in the family! congratulations and God bless all of you!
congratulations Jessica... he's beautiful!
He's beautiful~!
Babies are so exciting!
(We have a 6 month old Grandson, I have fallen in love all over again
Welcome to our world, Casper! A very beautiful baby, and what lucky parents! Can't wait to see a few layouts of him as he grows.
OMG, he is just so beautiful! Congratulations and wishing you LOTS of happiness in the years ahead!
Congratulations to you and your family, wishing you all the best!
Welcome, Casper! What a sweet little new scrapping subject Get some rest, Jessica!
Congratulations Jessica! What a lovely little baby!
Welcome to the world, Casper! Congrats Jessica - he is adorable!
He's so beautiful, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats! He looks so sweet!
Congrats! He is absolutely beautiful!
What a cutie! Congratulations!
Cute, Enjoy your little one.
Wow! Congratulations... he is fabu!
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Matt Moore eyes his sixth win of the season on Wednesday when the Tampa Bay Rays continue their four-game set with the Toronto Blue Jays at Tropicana Field.
Moore won his first five starts and allowed just four runs in doing so, but did not get a decision on Friday and had his worst outing of the season. The Colorado Rockies reached the 23-year-old lefty for four runs and seven hits in just five innings of the Rays' 7-4 win. Moore also walked four batters and saw his ERA rise to 1.95.
"I put myself in a situation where I really had to grind and battle to get out of there when I never should have -- I can't walk the pitcher when he's trying to give me an out," Moore said.
Moore has faced the Blue Jays four times and is 1-1 against them with a 3.26 ERA.
Toronto, meanwhile, will hand the ball to lefty Ricky Romero, who fell apart in the fourth inning in his first start on Friday against Seattle. Romero cruised through the first three innings in that one, but gave up three runs, hit a batter, walked three more and threw a wild pitch. He would not return for a fifth frame.
"I felt like the guy I've been working on this past month in Florida. I felt good, had some good stuff. Had a lot of live movement on the fastball," Romero said. "That fourth inning just got away from me a little bit."
Romero, of course, was an All-Star for the Jays in 2011, but last year lost 14 games and did not break camp with the big league club this spring, as the team opted for him to work on his mechanics with Class A Dunedin.
"I thought he was great. I really did," manager John Gibbons said. "He ran into some trouble there in the last inning, with some walks and he hit the guy, but overall I think he should feel good about that [outing]. It's something to build off of, because the beginning of the game I thought he was dynamite."
Toronto has won the first two games of this set, but after Tuesday's 6-4 triumph nobody seemed all that excited that the Jays would not be losing an 18th consecutive series in St. Petersburg.
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"Unfortunately, that's part of the game," said Toronto reliever Brad Lincoln, who took over for Happ on the mound. "Stuff happens like that. Thoughts and prayers go out to him, but you've still got to go out there and compete and play the game."
Forced to dig into its bullpen early, four Toronto relievers combined for 7 2/3 scoreless innings, with Steve Delabar (3-1) tossing two innings of one-hit ball. Casey Janssen worked a perfect ninth to notch his ninth save.
Colby Rasmus hit a two-run homer, Adam Lind went 2-for-4 with a solo shot and two runs scored, while Jose Bautista and Melky Cabrera each plated a run to help Toronto earn back-to-back victories at Tropicana Field for the first time in almost five years.
Joel Peralta (0-2) was tagged with the loss for the Rays, who blew a seven-run lead in an 8-7 loss to the Jays on Monday. The Tampa Bay bullpen spoiled a solid start from Roberto Hernandez, who tossed six innings of one-run ball and struck out seven.
"It's a bad stretch for almost everyone in the bullpen right now," Peralta said. "We're probably trying too hard. And sometimes the harder you try, the worse it goes."
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FRESNO – Continuing the drive to rebuild the state's infrastructure, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $1 billion in funding for 153 transportation projects that will strengthen the state's economy by sustaining and creating jobs while providing congestion relief for motorists statewide.
"We're building transportation improvements that will benefit the state for decades to come and boost job growth in every region of California," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The allocations include nearly $541 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. In total, more than $15.5 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been put to work statewide.
Highlights of the funding allocations include:
- An allocation of $728,000 towards a widening project along Temperance Avenue in the city of Clovis between Enterprise Canal and Shepherd Avenue. This project will serve to increase vehicle capacity, reliability, safety, and security of the existing transportation system for motorized and non-motorized users, as well as improve quality of life, and promote an efficient management and operation system.
- An allocation of $7,551,000 to the City of Dinuba for the Avenue 416 Widening project, between Road 56 to Road 80. The widening of three miles of 2-lane road to a 4-lane with a 2-way left-turn lane will ease traffic congestion and eliminate sight distance problems.
- An allocation of $225,000 to the City of Bakersfield for the Hageman Road Signal Installation & Synchronization project, at Hageman Road and Old Farm Road, and Hageman Road and Jewetta Avenue. This project will improve air quality and reduce traffic congestion to better coordinate/manage current and future traffic volumes
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In Memory of Doc Watson
"Fame is a strange beast, and very few are famous for their humility… those are the ones that matter most. And Doc Watson is one of those people" ~ Henri Deschamps
I initially thought I had known about Doc Watson my whole life. After all I grew up in the south, in a manner of speaking. And while the Allman Brothers came just after the Beatles in my cherished stack of 33's in high school, thanks to a friend named Rick Shore, Doc and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band were also there by the time I got into college. Music mattered a great deal in our lives at that time; And perhaps then, more than now, music was where we got our education.
My earliest recollection of Doc is while doing my best to be a hippie at Boston University, where knowing about Doc meant you were cool. No apologies, we all start out shallow. 42 years later, the only music I really listen to now flows from Celtic, through Old-Time, to Bluegrass and Acoustic Roots. Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Dr. Ralph Stanley, The Carter Family, Blue Highway, Alison Krauss and The Avett Brothers all make a lot of sense to me, and there are so many outstanding artists in Bluegrass & Roots Music today I see little reason to seek my solace elsewhere.
And while I thought I knew about Doc before, I realized I knew very little until we moved to the Western North High Country about 7 years ago. I kept hearing in hushed reverential tones from a lot of friends and neighbors "Did you know that Doc Watson lives here?" It was said in much the same way folks would ask if you knew The Dalai Lama or Albert Schweitzer lived here.
Although I met and spent some time with Doc, and once spent a few hours alone with him chatting about all kinds of things, I cannot say I knew him well. He was actually quite hilarious, much like Dan Tyminski, with "out-of-the-blue" quips followed by explosions of mirth that you never saw coming because you were in the middle of something serious. But then again I knew him very well for two reasons. First and foremost, with Doc what you see is what you got in every way, and second, his spirit was so present in our world, it's almost like you felt he was just out of sight, just over yonder, but right there.
And for me, because Doc embodied so perfectly so much of what I love about Western North Carolina, I was with him a lot every day. Ask almost anyone who knows our mountain region and villages, and knows Doc, and they will tell you the same thing. That is no minor matter. At least for us. But it is very hard to explain or describe because it is so personal and intimate. While I don't think he ever farmed, he grew up like all here surrounded by small family farms. So to me, clear as day, Doc was a North Carolina Mountain Farmer… farmer in the sense that you can take the artist out of the farm, but you cannot take the farm out of the artist. And if you know a North Carolina Mountain farmer, you know someone a lot like Doc.
I compiled a collection of resources below so you can see for yourself what Doc's about. He was about a lot of things, but what I remember most today is his humanity, compassion, his humility and simplicity. It was not his image or brand, it is who he was.
There is a simplicity that comes from ignorance, like the simplicity of a young child, but there is a simplicity like a farmer's that comes from profound understanding. Chopin said of music what can also be said about people and their struggles to become all they can be:
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." ~ Frédéric Chopin
In that respect, Doc was a simple man, much like Charles Church, Tommy Walsh, and John Cooper are simple men.
A poet's job in this world is to say everything about something in a phrase; To help us see how the proverbial drop contains the entire ocean. And what did Doc have to say about himself; "Doc Watson, Just One of The People", and he meant it in ways more profound than one might garner at first glance. He meant a lot to us here, and he will always be with us, just over yonder. While his music will continue to speak for itself, here we have a profound and intimate affection for Doc, and we are above all grateful for who he was as a man.
Henri Deschamps
"In Memory of Doc Watson"
Valle Crucis, North Carolina
June 6, 2012
"My brother pointed to an older man with a guitar, and he said "that's Doc Watson". "Oh yeah, Dad had that old record", I said not realizing that my life was about to change. Jack helped Doc to his chair, which happened to be 3 feet directly in front of me. Remembering that old album cover which was burned in my memory from my parent's collection, I couldn't wait to hear what Mr. Watson sounded like." ~ Andy Falco, The Infamous Stringdusters
Doc Watson, "Just one of the people" • www.themastfarminn.com/docwatson-jotp • A life-sized bronze statue of music icon Doc Watson, a native of Deep Gap, North Carolina, was installed and unveiled on Friday, June 24th, 2011 in Boone, North Carolina. The statue is the brainchild of John Cooper of The Mast General Store, and a project of the Downtown Boone Development Association.
Doc Watson & MerleFest • www.themastfarminn.com/merlefest • MerleFest was founded in 1988 in Memory of Doc Watson's son Eddy Merle Watson as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College and to celebrate "traditional plus" music.
Doc Watson & MusicFest n' Sugar Grove • www.themastfarminn.com/music-fest-sugar-grove • MusicFest n' Sugar Grove has become a favorite of bluegrass, old-time, blues and Americana music lovers. Featured artist Doc Watson calls this music "Tradition plus." The bands appearing at the festival play to show their appreciation for Doc and his influence on their musical careers.
Doc Watson • www.acousticana.us/docwatson • "Over the past fifty years the guitar has had a very powerful influence on American music. Predominantly a rhythm instrument at the turn of the century, the guitar began to step out of the rhythm section in the 1930's and 40's and has maintained a dominant presence in every form of music from rock, to folk, to country, bluegrass, blues, and oldtime. While Elvis, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and other pop icons of the 50's and 60's certainly played a large role in bolstering the guitar's popularity, the man who has had the deepest, most enduring, and most profound influence on the way the acoustic flat top guitar is played as a lead instrument in folk, old-time, and bluegrass music today is Arthel "Doc" Watson." ~ Dan Miller
Doc Watson In Boone, North Carolina • www.acousticana.us/doc-watson-boone • "A life-sized bronze statue of music icon Doc Watson, a native of Deep Gap, North Carolina, is now completed and was installed and unveiled on Friday, June 24th, 2011 in Boone, North Carolina. The statue is the brainchild of John Cooper of The Mast General Store, and a project of the Downtown Boone Development Association. The bronze sculpture is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of King and Depot streets. The statue was created by noted sculptor Alex Hallmark, and features the musician seated on a bench playing his favorite guitar."
Doc Watson • "Just One Of The People" • www.acousticana.us/doc-watson-deep-river-blues • "Doc Watson got his start in downtown Boone as a blind musician. We just thought it was a wonderful idea to have a tribute to him downtown where he really got his start." ~ John Cooper, The Mast General Store
Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records • http://bit.ly/Lvlr5u • In the latter half of the 20th century there were three pre-eminently influential folk/country guitar players: Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, and Arthel "Doc" Watson, a flat-picking genius from Deep Gap, NC. Unlike the other two, Watson was in middle age before gaining any attention. Since 1960, though, when Watson was recorded with his family and friends in Folkways' Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's, people have remained in awe of this gentle blind man who sings and picks with a pure and emotional authenticity. The present generation, folkies and country pickers alike, including Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, the late Clarence White, Emmylou Harris, and literally hundreds of others, acknowledge their great debt to Watson.
Doc Watson, Folklore Productions International• www.www.folkloreproductions.com/DocWatson.html • http://bit.ly/L238FR • Recipient of the National Medal of Arts, National Heritage Fellowship and eight Grammy Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), Doc Watson is a legendary performer who blends his traditional Appalachian musical roots with bluegrass, country, gospel and blues to create a unique style and an expansive repertoire.
Doc Watson (1923-2012) • www.folkloreproductions.com/wp/in-memoriam/doc-watson-1923-2012 • Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, recipient of the National Medal of Arts, a National Heritage Fellowship, and eight Grammy Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement) died on Tuesday, May 29 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC following abdominal surgery last week. He was 89.
Doc's Guitar • www.docsguitar.com • Doc Watson has had a profound influence in traditional, folk and bluegrass music ever since coming to national attention in the early 1960's. His recordings and performances have inspired generations of aspiring guitarists to explore the mysteries of his phenomenal playing. Here at Doc's Guitar you will find biographical information about Doc, along with a listing of the honors and awards he has received. We also feature a complete discography of Doc's recordings, as well as a bibliography of instruction materials and performance videos.
MerleFest • www.merlefest.org • MerleFest was founded in 1988 in Memory of Doc Watson's son Eddy Merle Watson as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College and to celebrate "traditional plus" music.
Doc Watson, From Wikipedia • www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Watson • Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded. He performed with his son Merle for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985, in an accident on the family farm. Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina. According to Watson on his three CD biographical recording Legacy, he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname. A fan in the crowd shouted "Call him Doc!" presumably in reference to the literary character Sherlock Holmes' sidekick Doctor Watson. The name had stuck ever since
"The years I've followed Doc and grown closer to folk and roots music have seen celebrity metastasize in American culture from a pleasant diversion to an industrial beast and a misbegotten religion. Doc's approach to music, as a simple, joyful, spontaneous connector of human beings has become an anchor for me." ~ Craig Havighurst, String Theory Media
Blues For Doc Watson • www.stringtheorymedia.com/2012/05/blues-for-doc-watson.html • "It feels a little harder to hold a grip on reality without him here. But it's reassuring to know that even if they shut down the internet, cable or the power grid itself, the only thing keeping the celebritons animate, we could still make music the way Doc showed us how." ~ Craig Havighurst
Celebrating Doc: Deep River Rising with special guest musicians Wayne Henderson and Jeff Little • http://goo.gl/MkvKB • Our Celebrating Doc symposium and concert features Doc's longtime musical partner David Holt, known to many from UNC–TV's Folkways series; Bryan Sutton, brilliant guitarist from Asheville and prominent Nashville session musician; Doc's favorite bass player, T. Michael Coleman; celebrated guitar picker and instrument maker Wayne Henderson, with whom Doc visited and swapped tunes just before entering the hospital; and the amazing pianist Jeff Little, who learned to transpose fiddle tunes for the piano during Doc's frequent visits to his family's music store in Boone, North Carolina.
Doc Watson, Blind Guitar Wizard Who Influenced Generations, Dies at 89 • www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/arts/music/doc-watson-folk-musician-dies-at-89.html • Doc Watson, the guitarist and folk singer whose flat-picking style elevated the acoustic guitar to solo status in bluegrass and country music, and whose interpretations of traditional American music profoundly influenced generations of folk and rock guitarists, died on Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89.
Way Down Watson • www.archives.nodepression.com/1998/01/way-down-watson/ • Doc Watson was born in a rural community, was raised on music both vital and stretching back before precise history, and received the kind fortune to share his skill with the world.
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson • www.docsguitar.com/DWObit.pdf • Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, recipient of the National Medal of Arts, a National Heritage Fellowship, and eight Grammy Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement) died on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC following abdominal surgery last week. He was 89.
How Doc Watson Made the Guitar the Guitar • www.esquire.com/the-side/music/doc-watson-dies-9285001 • But an 82-year-old man was up on a stage, playing the guitar as if it had been invented yesterday, cramming into an hour-long show the lessons of a life lived hard and well. If you were listening at all, you couldn't help but learn something.
Doc Watson, Folk Music Icon, Dies At 89 • http://n.pr/L22PuO • Watson was born in Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a three-room house he shared with eight brothers and sisters. He revolutionized not just how people play guitar but the way people around the world think about mountain music.
RIP Doc Watson • www.bluegrasstoday.com/42368/rip-doc-watson • How important was Doc? Dan Miller, in a superb profile in the September-October 1998 issue of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, called him "the man who had the deepest, most enduring and most profound influence on the way the acoustic flat top guitar is played as a lead instrument in folk, old-time, and bluegrass music today."
Watson lives on, musician says • http://bit.ly/LbiJB0 • In a memorial service laced with gentle bluegrass music that was held in a church built into the Blue Ridge hills that he so loved, Doc Watson's family and friends celebrated his life, his music and his faith on Sunday before they laid one of North Carolina's favorite sons to rest.
Doc was a good friend, A Humble Man • http://bit.ly/LbjrhA • Dennis Isaacs was a young man with big dreams when he discovered his talent for playing the guitar. There were several musicians out there, he said, who made an impression on him, but none so much as Doc Watson.
Remembering Doc • www.krugerbrothers.com/archives/4044 • Doc Watson was the first guitar player I remember listening to thinking "I want to learn how to play and sing like that!" Through all my playing and performing since I was a teenager, I always had someone to turn to when I got lost and questioned my own abilities as a musician. And when life was unbearable sometimes, his recordings never failed to bring me back to reality and putting a smile on my face again.
Doc Watson, innovative guitarist and 'positive icon' for Appalachian region • http://bit.ly/LblaU9 • Guitarist Doc Watson, who passed away Tuesday, was widely considered a true American original who deeply influenced every guitarist – folk, jazz, or rock – in the past 50 years. He was lauded not just for his technical skill but his understanding of Appalachian culture and for his model behavior as a humble man.
Doc Watson: Flatpicker, Song Stylist, Messenger • www.theledger.com/article/20120603/ENT/120609809 • Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, never had a hit record, and none of his albums ever went gold. This truth, a shame considering his talent, his influence on the guitar and the beauty of his dynamic baritone, should serve as inspiration to any musician interested in the long game, in making music that endures not because of its shock value or its keen marketplace vision but because within its measured tones lies universal truth.
To Hear Doc Watson, You Really Had to See Him • http://nyti.ms/LbnjPH • Doc Watson, who died on Tuesday at age 89, was the first truly great guitar player I ever saw up close. For me, growing up in Santa Monica, Calif., in the 1950s meant that great musicians were only manifested on records and radio, making it hard to catch a glimpse of the person behind the layers of sound and presentation. You knew people like Hank Snow and Merle Travis were great, but you couldn't be sure how much the Nudie suits and custom boots had contributed to the sound you heard on KXLA radio.
Doc Watson, a Legendary Picker, Was Traditional Music's Best Ambassador • http://bit.ly/LbndYj • Arthel Watson got his nickname one night in a furniture store in Lenoir, N.C., in 1951, when he was just 18 years old. He was by then sufficiently gifted on the guitar to be performing at what might be called the semi-pro level. A Lenoir radio station was doing a remote feed from the store, where Watson (PDF) and his cousin were performing, and the announcer, having decided that Arthel was not much of a handle for radio, asked the audience for suggestions. A woman in the audience said, "Call him Doc." The name stuck, and he's been Doc to the world ever since.
Doc Watson: He was a pilgrim • www.getreligion.org/2012/05/doc-watson-he-was-a-pilgrim/ • When you're talking about Doc Watson, the place to start is here: He was a superstar in old-time folk music, which is the rare art form in which the word "tradition" is not a curse.
Not Just A Good Musician • http://bit.ly/LbnM4h • As the story goes, Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs were sitting backstage at MerleFest one year talking about the time that Doc had emergency surgery in a Tennessee hospital, and Scruggs, who piloted a plane when he wasn't picking a banjo, flew him home.
Doc Watson remembered as great friend, and music legend • http://avlne.ws/LbokHi • A day after the death of 89-year-old North Carolina folk music legend Doc Watson, his friends and fans were both shaken by his passing while celebrating memories of his life and music. "I was at his bedside a half-hour before he passed away" Tuesday night, said his longtime musical partner and close friend David Holt. "It's the ending of an era. But it's not the end of the music by any means. The music doesn't end."
Watson's death hits Gallagher hard • http://bit.ly/LboGOa • The late J.W. Gallagher and his son Don first met Doc Watson and his son Merle at a music festival in 1968. They handed Doc one of their guitars, and he liked it. They told him to keep it. From that point forward, Doc Watson played Gallagher guitars. In 1974, Gallagher Guitar Co. designed a new model especially for Watson, and the Wartrace-based company has sold a line of guitars named for Watson ever since.
Stars pay tribute to Doc Watson • http://yhoo.it/Lbp1k9 • Chely Wright, Rosanne Cash and Steve Martin are among the stars who have paid tribute to Doc Watson following his death on Tuesday. The blind folk singer and guitarist, who was a seven-time Grammy Award winner, recently suffered a fall at his home and was admitted to hospital in North Carolina.
Flat-picking master inspired generations of guitar players • www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120531/NEWS0107/205310376/ • You could hear the mountains of North Carolina in Doc Watson's music. The rush of a mountain stream, the steady creak of a mule in leather harness plowing rows in topsoil and the echoes of ancient sounds made by a vanishing people were an intrinsic part of the folk musician's powerful, homespun sound.
Doc Watson's Appalachian Swing • www.tnr.com/blog/the-famous-door/103834/doc-watson-appalachian-swing • Doc Watson, the guitarist and singer who died this week at 89, seemed the embodiment of traditional American rural values. He was a handsome mountain man, solid in body and temperament, and he comported himself on stage with courtly grace and gentle humor.
Doc Watson's Front Porch Spirit • http://bit.ly/Lbrzi9 • Just a moment after Doc Watson died, at 89, on a Tuesday in a Winston-Salem North Carolina hospital, his spirit pushed open a weathered wood frame screen door on to God's front porch.