Now a new pilgrim pope promises to lead thechurch into the next phase of its history, a phase that threatens to be more perilous even than the past century.
Watson was steeped in music as a child, from the time his mother held him in her arms at the Mount Paton Church and he listened to the harmony and shape-note singing of such songs as "The Lone Pilgrim" and "There is a Fountain, " according to a 1998 article in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by Dan Miller.