Dock Boggs - Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings
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Artist: Dock BoggsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-02-17
Music Label: Revenant Records
Soundtracks:
- Sugar Baby
- Down Home Blues
- Country Blues
- Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long?
- Danville Girl
- Pretty Polly
- New Prisoner's Song
- Hard Luck Blues
- Lost Love Blues
- Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There?
- Old Rub Alcohol Blues
- False Hearted Lover's Blues
- Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alternate Take #1)
- Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alternate Take #1)
- Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Sole Unissues Alternate Take)
- Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alternate Take #2)
- Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alternate Take #2)
- Peddler & His Wife - Dock Boggs/Hayes Shepherd
- Hard For To Love - Dock Boggs/Hayes Shepherd
- Bound Steel Blues - Dock Boggs/Bill Shephard
- Aunt Jane Blues - Dock Boggs/Bill Shephard
Free Music Notes for Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings
Free Music Review: not for the faint of heart.
Hit: 4 Stars
well, this disc fascinates me. I didn't much care for it during my first listen. put it away for a few months & came back to it. by about the 3rd play it was striking a chord in me. this is not easy listening. not by a long shot. if you are going to succeed in liking this cd, you are going to have to have a certain level of tolerance for unusual voices. this man was no honey-throated songbird. usually i have a hard time describing unique voices with words, but in this case it seems easy: when mr boggs sings he sounds like an alcoholic uncle whom you would not trust around your children. i realize this is not sounding like a high recommendation (i do like this disc - i gave it four stars), i just think you should have a clear idea of what you might be getting into here. this is rural folk music with a raw and vital vibe to it. though sounding drunk and demented mr boggs fascinates, and he plays a mean banjo, to boot. lots of excellent banjo on this disc. but back to that voice: i will insist that some of these old tunes are best suited by a voice such as this. take "pretty polly," for example. now, if you are not familiar with old mountain ballads, you might think "pretty polly," that sounds like a nice song; but, if you are familiar with these ballads, you will see that title and think "uh-oh! pretty polly is surely going to die." and of course, die she does. mr boggs sings about murdering her, and he sounds just right for the role. someone like say, oh, how about johnny mathis, could not pull this song off convincingly. this is a truly disturbing song and it deserves a distrubed sounding man to do it justice. now i know next to nothing about doc boggs, the man (i have not even read the lengthy linear notes that come with this disc). maybe he was a great fella. i hope so. but i am saying "he truly sounds like a rural maniac." so that's part of the reason that this disc now fascinates me. that and all the fine music on it. i don't really have time to go further with this now; i have a life and you have a life. we need to get on with things. buy this, or don't. thanks for hearing me out.
Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings Poster
With his dark genius lauded by the literary likes of Greil Marcus in this compilation's accompanying 64-page hardcover booklet, Dock Boggs is remembered as a grim and tortured man who barely managed to save his soul with a banjo and a handful of songs. Originally recorded in the late 1920s, this collection illuminates the history of murder ballads like "Pretty Polly" from their origins in the English countryside to their more contemporary expressions (see "Polly" by Nirvana). While Boggs experienced popularity when these recordings were made, he retired from music for more than 30 years until being "rediscovered" in the early 1960s. Along with 12 classic Boggs performances, Country Blues includes five unreleased outtakes and four cuts with Dock as an instrumental sideman. --Mitch MyersBlues Music CDs
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