He revolutionized not just how people play guitar but the way people around the world think about mountain music. 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 brought that humble, yet soulful, background in to ever piece of music he played.
Watson went blind when he was around a year old, from an untreated eye infection. When he was only 11 when his father made him a banjo using the skin of an dead cat.
"He brought it to me and put it in my hands, and said, 'Son, I want you to learn to play this thing real well. One of these days we'll get you a better one,' he said. 'Might help you get through the world,' " Watson recalled.
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