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Could we find a more recent, or better picture of Doc Watson?

[edit] Seventh son?

Besides that, Doc usually is a nickname for the seventh child (son) in a family. (Jan Willems) -

Why is User: stuff in article? I took it out.

Fplay 05:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discography

Doc has done a lot of records, shouldn't we include a list of some of the most well known ones, ie Sittin Here Pickin the Blues?

I agree - I think a full discography should be the goal, however.

[edit] Merle

I don't know enough to fix this myself, but does anyone else think it doesn't make a lot of sense to redirect Merle Watson to Doc's page? I mean, they're two different people; a basic stub would be better than what we've got. It's labeled as a redirect for subtopics, but I don't think that really applies here. Evanbro 00:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree (although I'm not likely to fix it soon myself, either). Merle is famous enough for a Wikipedia article. --Allen 03:16, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree - Merle deserves his own page. There is some information available here: http://www.merlefest.org/DocsIntro.htm. Merle was named by Frets magazine as best fingerstyle guitarist of 1985, that makes him worthy of his own page. --User:DanielLevitin 20:16, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

At least add the Reflections album he did with Chet Atkins.