“Nothing to It” is an instrumental credited to Doc Watson, the blind guitarist from Deep Gap, North Carolina. He recorded it as a solo guitar piece for his 1966 album “Southbound.”
Learning the tune marked an important step in Watson’s playing: it was where he worked Merle Travis’s finger-style technique into his own approach. A bright instrumental in C, it shows the easy mastery the modest title plays down.
The tune became part of Watson’s much-admired guitar repertoire.
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