Love Doc Watson. Love bluegrass. I’m a big fan of the old Stanley Brothers bluegrass but I watched an old TNN documentary on Keith Whitley (R.I.P. a true classic country musician) a few months ago and, when he was just 17 he got the opportunity to go overseas and perform on a tour with the Stanley Brothers and they encouraged and facilitated him drinking. It’s basically the onset of alcoholism that would eventually be his demise. The morning he died his wife Lori Morgan left to start a tour, which he had begged her not to. He was supposed to play golf with a friend or in-law at 9:00. The person called him at 7am to just confirm the outing and he said Keith sounded perfectly sober. I think Lori confirmed he had not drank anything before she left for her tour just a bit earlier than the phone call. So it’s 7am and Whitley was alone and presumably 100% sober and, by the the time the buddy or in-law arrived, just 2 short ours later, Whitley was dead from alcohol poisoning. When they did his toxicology he had a 0.38 blood alcohol level. He must have slammed a half gallon of liquor or more to go from stone cold sober to dead from alcohol poisoning in ~2 hrs. Sad man with mega talent but big issues upstairs. Damn good singer though.