Title: Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs Artist: Dock Boggs Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070545823 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
Mike Seeger interviews Dock Boggs, a Virginia coal miner, banjo player and singer of old-time Appalachian mountain music and blues. Boggs once garnered a record deal with Brunswick to record 24 tracks, but he only completed eight before quitting and returning to Virginia during the 1920s. He was all but forgotten as an artist until Seeger rediscovered him in the 1960s.
Tracks: 1.1 Brief Recount of His Life; Brunswick Audition 1.2 On First Learning to Play and "Living for the Lord" 1.3 In Taking Up Learning to Play a Banjo... Negro Musicians 1.4 Playing "Straight": Plays Turkey in the Straw 1.5 D Tuning 1.6 Practicing and Timing for Record 1.7 Playing for a Living; Trip to New York 1.8 More About Learning to Play 1.9 Comments While Looking Over Song Text 1.10 More on Learning to Play Banjo, and First "Playing Out" 1.11 About Down South Blues and Playing Blues on the Banjo 1.12 I Never Thought About Playing Commercially 1.13 Coal Creek March at Land Sale 1.14 Why He Left Virginia in 1928 1.15 About the Name "Dock" 1.16 History of the Coal Creek March 1.17 Story About Singing Rowan County Crew
