In the Country of Country-Part 4

Hell's Half Acre-The Louvin Brothers

Charlie and Ira are the Louvin Brothers who were from Henagar in the Sand Mountain area. They spent a lot of the time of their youths in Georgia and Alabama. They sang country gospel music and were very versatile vocalists. They believed that more emotion can by infused into songs that the artist can relate to so they played songs that they knew about such as murders that had recently happened in Henagar.

Just One of the People-Doc Watson

Doc became fully blind before he was one year old, but his father continued to raise him like the rest of the Watson children. Because of this, Watson grew up being forced to be independent and very capable of everyday activities. He started playing the banjo when he was very young and then started making instruments out of what he could find around the house. While he was attending a school for the blind, he began playing guitar and became very good. Watson played old Appalacian folk songs often from the music that he heard on the radio and from old records that the family owned. He's very humble about his skills as a musician, p. 165 "To him it's an acquired skill-something he has a knack for."