Doc Stock III – Doc Watson: A Life in Music
DOC STOCK III
In partnership with the Ramkat
Doc Watson: A Life in Music
Book Reading and signing by local author Eddie Huffman +Special guest Riley Baugus
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Gas Hill Drinking Room at the Ramkat
170 W 9th St, Winston-Salem, NC
This event is free and is a part of DocStock III, our annual birthday celebration honoring Doc Watson!
In Doc Watson: A Life in Music, published by the University of North Carolina Press in January, 2025, Huffman tells the story of Doc’s life and legacy, drawing on extensive interviews and hundreds of hours of archival research. In making the most comprehensive biography of Watson ever, offering us an affecting and informative portrait of the man they called Doc.
Full of fascinating stories–from Doc’s first banjo made from his grandmother’s cat to the founding of MerleFest–this promises to be the definitive biography of the man and how he came to be synonymous with roots music in America and shows how his influence is still felt in music today.
Eddie Huffman will read excerpts from the book and be available for book signings. He will be joined by Riley Baugus, longtime friend of Doc Watson.
This event is free and is a part of DocStock III, our annual birthday celebration honoring Doc Watson!
About Eddie Huffman
Eddie Huffman, a ninth- or tenth-generation North Carolinian, has been writing about music legends, muscle cars, moonshiners, Civil War reenactors, and murderous ventriloquist dummies since before Lady Gaga was born. John Prine: In Spite of Himself was the first book he has written on his own. He has contributed to Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Utne Reader, All Music Guide, Goldmine, the Virgin Islands Source, and many other publications.
Order the book
Doc Watson: A Life in Music
About The Ramkat
The Ramkat is a two-level, 11,670- square-foot, 1,000-person-capacity live music venue, handicap-accessible, and serviced by three bars serving a wide variety of beer, wine, spirits and non-alcoholic beverages. The Ramkat continues to build on the long legacy of live music in Winston-Salem that borrows from the best of our musical heritage and other great rooms around the world, while at the same time harkening back to the basic philosophy of the Sixth Room…without the temperance talks.
The Ramkat is located at 170 W. 9th St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
About The Gas Hill Drinking Room
Gas Hill is an intimate craft cocktail lounge, drinking room and gathering space with a mix of deep-seated couches, comfortable bar stools and community tables. Connected to the balcony level of the venue, Gas Hill is located at the northernmost end of Trade Street across the intersection at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
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