Dock Boggs

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Sugar Baby 00:00 Tools
Country Blues 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues 00:00 Tools
Pretty Polly 00:00 Tools
New Prisoner's Song 00:00 Tools
Danville Girl 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues 00:00 Tools
False Hearted Lover's Blues 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Luck Blues 00:00 Tools
Wild Bill Jones 00:00 Tools
Coal Creek March 00:00 Tools
Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long? 00:00 Tools
My Old Horse Died 00:00 Tools
Bright Sunny South 00:00 Tools
Prodigal Son 00:00 Tools
Rowan County Crew 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? 00:00 Tools
Drunkard's Lone Child 00:00 Tools
Oh, Death 00:00 Tools
Mistreated Mama Blues 00:00 Tools
Mother's Advice 00:00 Tools
Harvey Logan 00:00 Tools
Old Joe's Barroom 00:00 Tools
Wise County Jail 00:00 Tools
No Disappointment in Heaven 00:00 Tools
John Henry 00:00 Tools
Banjo Clog 00:00 Tools
Turkey in the Straw 00:00 Tools
Mixed Blues 00:00 Tools
Schottische Time 00:00 Tools
Poor Boy in Jail 00:00 Tools
Little Black Train 00:00 Tools
Cole Younger 00:00 Tools
Davenport 00:00 Tools
Cumberland Gap 02:30 Tools
The Death of Jerry Damron 00:00 Tools
Glory Land 00:00 Tools
Railroad Tramp 00:00 Tools
Papa, Build Me a Boat 00:00 Tools
Little Omie Wise 00:00 Tools
Cuba 00:00 Tools
John Hardy 00:00 Tools
Coke Oven March 00:00 Tools
Brother Jim Got Shot 00:00 Tools
Peggy Walker 00:00 Tools
Sugar Blues 00:00 Tools
Loving Nancy 00:00 Tools
Dying Ranger 00:00 Tools
Calvary 00:00 Tools
Prayer of a Miner's Child 00:00 Tools
I Hope I Live a Few More Days 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alternate Take #2) 00:00 Tools
Ruben's Train 00:00 Tools
Leave It There 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alternate Take #1) 00:00 Tools
Roses While I'm Living 00:00 Tools
Careless Love 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #1] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #1] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #2] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alternate Take #2) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (unissued alternate take #1) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Sole Unissued Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [unissued alternate take #1] 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues [sole unissued alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Unissued Alternate Take #2] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Unissued Alternate Take #1] 00:00 Tools
The Country Blues 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [unissued alternate take #2] 00:00 Tools
Peddler And His Wife 00:00 Tools
Hard For To Love 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #2] 00:00 Tools
Aunt Jane Blues 00:00 Tools
Bound Steel Blues 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There 00:00 Tools
Peddler and His Wife [Hayes Shepherd] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #1][#] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #1][#] 00:00 Tools
Hard For To Love [Hayes Shepherd] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #2][#] 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues [Alternate Take][#] 00:00 Tools
Aunt Jane Blues [Bill Shepherd] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #2][#] 00:00 Tools
Bound Steel Blues [Bill Shepherd] 00:00 Tools
Papa, Papa, Build Me a Boat 00:00 Tools
Brief Recount of his life; Brunswick audition 00:00 Tools
Country Blues (1927) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (1929) 00:00 Tools
In Taking Up Learning to Play a Banjo... Negro Musicians 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues [live] 00:00 Tools
About the Name "Dock" 00:00 Tools
On First Learning to Play and "Living for the Lord" 00:00 Tools
Davnille Girl 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alternate Take#1) 00:00 Tools
Practicing and Timing for Record 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Unissued 2) 00:00 Tools
About Down South Blues and Playing Blues On the Banjo 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Unissued 1) 00:00 Tools
Fale Hearted Lover's Blues (Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (Unissued 1) 00:00 Tools
Comments While Looking Over Song Text 00:00 Tools
D Tuning 00:00 Tools
Playing "Straight": Plays Turkey In the Straw 00:00 Tools
Playing for a Living; Trip to New York 00:00 Tools
Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long! 00:00 Tools
Country Blues (Previously Unreleased Version) 00:00 Tools
History of the Coal Creek March 00:00 Tools
More On Learning to Play Banjo, and First "Playing Out" 00:00 Tools
Why He Left Virginia In 1928 00:00 Tools
More About Learning to Play 00:00 Tools
Will Sweehearts Know Each Other There (Unissued 2) 00:00 Tools
Story About Singing Rowan County Crew 00:00 Tools
I Never Thought About Playing Commercially 00:00 Tools
Country Blues [#] 00:00 Tools
Sugar Baby (1927) 00:00 Tools
Coal Creek March At Land Sale 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (unissued 2) 00:00 Tools
Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Alternate Take #2) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (unissued) 00:00 Tools
Pretty Polly (1927) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Unissued Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (unissued) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Prayer Of A Miners Child 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Oth 00:00 Tools
Country Blues [1927] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Old Joe's bar room 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Alternate Take #1) 00:00 Tools
Wise Country Jail 00:00 Tools
Rowan Country Crew 00:00 Tools
Aunt Jane Blues (Bill Shepherd) 00:00 Tools
06 - Pretty Polly 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (2) 00:00 Tools
Peddler And His Wife (Hayes Shepherd) 00:00 Tools
Country Blues - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
False Hearted Lover's Blues (The Lonesome Ace 1, 21403-2) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues - Alternate Take 1 00:00 Tools
Danville Girl - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Hard For To Love (Hayes Shepherd) 00:00 Tools
Bound Steel Blues (Bill Shepherd) 00:00 Tools
False Hearter Lover Blues - Dock Boggs 00:00 Tools
New Prisoner's Song (1927) 00:00 Tools
False-Hearted Lover's Blues 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Surgar Baby 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Alt 1) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Alt 2) 00:00 Tools
Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Down Home Blues 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (3) 00:00 Tools
False Hearted Lover's Blues - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Peddler & His Wife 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Alt 1) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (The Lonesome Ace 2, 21405-2) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (1) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (2) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [#][Alternate Take #1] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [#][Alternate Take #1] 00:00 Tools
Pretty Polly - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [#][Alternate Take #2] 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? - Alternate Take 1 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alt. Take #2) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take 2] 00:00 Tools
Sammie Where Have You Been So Long? 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (Alt 2) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues [#][Alternate Take #2] 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (The Lonesome Ace 2, 21406-3) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues - Alternate Take 2 00:00 Tools
04 - sammie, where have you been so long 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
Hard for to Love _hayes Shepherd 00:00 Tools
False Hearted Lover's Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alt. Take #2) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (2) 00:00 Tools
16 - Lost Love Blues (2) 00:00 Tools
Old Blues Alcohol Blues [Alternate Take 1] 00:00 Tools
Sugar Baby (Early Version) 00:00 Tools
Hard Luck Blues - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
New Prisoner's Song - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Sugar Baby - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (The Lonesome Ace 1, 21404-3) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (The Lonesome Ace unissued, 21406-2) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (The Lonesome Ace unissued, 21405-1) 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
Bound Steel Blues _bill Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Peddler and His Wife _hayes Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alt. Take #1) 00:00 Tools
New Prisoners Song 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (3) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (Alt 1) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues [#][Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Papa Papa build me a boat 00:00 Tools
12 - False Hearted Lover's Blu 00:00 Tools
Doc Boggs - Country Blues 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (The Lonesome Ace unissued, 21404-2) 00:00 Tools
11 - old rub alcohol blues 00:00 Tools
Hard For To Love - Hayes Shepherd 00:00 Tools
False Hearted Lovers Blues 00:00 Tools
Sammie Where Have You Been so Long - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
20 - dock boggs - sugar baby 00:00 Tools
24 - False Hearted Lover Blues 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There (Alternate Take #1) 00:00 Tools
10 - will sweethearts know each other there 00:00 Tools
Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long- 00:00 Tools
Sammie, Where Have You Been S 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues (live) 00:00 Tools
Bound Steel Blues - Bill Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Aunt Jane Blues - Bill Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Danville Girl (1927) 00:00 Tools
12 - false hearted lover's blues 00:00 Tools
Peddler And His Wife - Hayes Shepherd 00:00 Tools
New Prisnor's Song 00:00 Tools
Aunt Jane Blues _bill Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alt. Take #1) 00:00 Tools
04 - Sammie, Where Have You Be 00:00 Tools
The Danville Girl 00:00 Tools
Omie Wise 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There- 00:00 Tools
04 - dock boggs - new prisoner's song 00:00 Tools
sugar baby (red rocking chair) 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Sole Unissues Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Danville Girl (1927) 00:00 Tools
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? - Alternate Take 2 00:00 Tools
Drunkard's Lone Call 00:00 Tools
Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Unissued Alt. take) 00:00 Tools
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Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7, 1898–February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of play, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of old-time Appalachian mountain music and the blues. Boggs is deemed by contemporary old-time musicians and performers as a seminal figure in old-time music, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues", on the influential Anthology of American Folk Music collection. Boggs was born in Norton, Virginia and began working in the coal mines of Appalachia at the age of twelve. At around this time, Boggs became interested in the banjo. As was the case of many musicians and performers of his era, Boggs learned to play the banjo watching and listening to family members and other performers, drawing additional influence from local African American musicians. Boggs, while playing a traditional-style of play, did not play in the knock-down, sometimes called clawhammer or frailing style, instead employing a three-finger method that involved picking upwards on the strings of the banjo and permitted him to execute crisp single-note runs in a manner similar to that of a fingerstyle guitarist. Nevertheless, Boggs' style should not be confused with the bluegrass style of playing otherwise known as Scruggs style, made famous by Earl Scruggs, which also involves up-picking the banjo strings. In 1920 Dock Boggs became influenced by blues tunes. He heard music played and sung by African-Americans while working in the coal mines and around the railroads of Appalachia. In 1927 he attended an audition in Bristol, Tennessee with the Brunswick record company. He was offered a contract to record with Brunswick and as a result travelled to New York where he recorded eight sides: "Sugar Baby," "Down Home Blues," "Country Blues," "Sammie Where Have You Been So Long," "Danville Girl," "Pretty Polly," "New Prisoner's Song" and "Hard Luck Blues." After these sessions, Boggs never recorded for Brunswick again. By 1933, Boggs had given up hope of making a living as a musician. He hocked his banjo and did not play again until the early 1960s when he was re-discovered by Mike Seeger of the New Lost City Ramblers. As a result of his relationship with Seeger, Boggs enjoyed a renaissance of sorts during the Folk Revival, and recorded again. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.