Doctor Coble Walsh (July 23, 1901 in

Lewis Fork Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * "Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead ...

, Wilkes County,

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia a ...

– May 28, 1967), better known as Doc/Dock Walsh, was an American banjoist, and bandleader of

The Carolina Tar Heels The Carolina Tar Heels was an American Old time music, old time String band (American music), string band. It originally consisted of Dock Walsh (July 23, 1901 – May 28, 1967) on banjo and Gwen Foster on harmonica. Later Clarence Ashley (Se ...

. He formed that group with

Clarence Ashley Clarence "Tom" Ashley (September 29, 1895 – June 2, 1967) was an American musician and singer, who played the clawhammer banjo and the guitar. He began performing at medicine shows in the Southern Appalachian region as early as 1911, and gai ...

in 1925, followed by the addition of Gwen Foster. Walsh is known as the "Banjo King of the Carolinas". He played in a ''clawhammer'' style, but was one of the first to record the three-finger style.Erbsen, pg. 83 He also invented a method of playing with pennies under the bridge and the strings played with a knife, similar to

bottle neck guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

style.Native Ground

Discography

* ''The Carolina Tar Heels'' (Folk Legacy, 1964) * ''The Carolina Tar Heels'' (GHP, 1969) * ''The Carolina Tar Heels'' (Bear Family, 1975) * ''The Original Carolina Tar Heels: Look Who's Coming!'' (Old Homestead, 1978)

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* 1901 births 1967 deaths American banjoists Old-time musicians 20th-century American musicians {{US-musician-stub