As she did with Edna Lewis in Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie, Robbin Gourley tells a story about the early life of Doc Watson (1923-2012), a blind musician from North Carolina who won 7 Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and had a deep, enduring influence on how the flattop acoustic guitar is used in folk, roots, and bluegrass music.

Robbin Gourley is an artist and art director as well as an author and illustrator of cookbooks and picture books. She divides her time between rural Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York.