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Guitarist Doc Watson, 89, RIP

In this March 15, 2000, file photo, master flatpicker Doc Watson talks about his long and successful musical career at his home in Deep Gap, N.C. Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his management company. He was 89. Story here. (AP Photo/Karen Tam, File)

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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