The Cat Sings

I'm listening to Doc Watson as I write this. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, Arthel "Doc" Watson is one of the reasons people want to learn the guitar, rather than being forced to learn the guitar because the band's already got a fiddle player. He was born in 1923 and he's still going. Now, you might think, of course he can play good, he lost his sight at the age of one, and started playing when he was five years old. Not everyone is that lucky, you say, or perhaps unlucky, or er.. there's no way out of this one. Leaving that aside, I think the single most interesting fact about Doc's life is that his father made him his first banjo out of his grandmother's cat. That's all I need to say really; any more would be gilding the lily.