Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968

Dock Boggs - Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968

Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968
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Artist: Dock Boggs
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-15
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Down South Blues - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  2. Country Blues - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  3. Pretty Polly - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  4. Coal Creek March - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  5. My Old Horse Died - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  6. Wild Bill Jones - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  7. Rowan County Crew - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  8. New Prisoner's Song - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  9. Oh Death - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  10. Prodigal Son - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  11. Mother's Advice - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  12. Drunkard's Lone Child - Dock Boggs, Traditional
  13. Bright Sunny South - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  14. Mistreated Mama Blues - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  15. Harvey Logan - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  16. Mixed Blues - Dock Boggs,
  17. Old Joe's Barroom - Dock Boggs,
  18. Danville Girl - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  19. Cole Younger - Dock Boggs,
  20. Schottische Time - Dock Boggs,
  21. Papa, Build Me a Boat - Dock Boggs,
  22. Little Black Train - Dock Boggs,
  23. No Disappointments in Heaven - Dock Boggs,
  24. Gloryland - Dock Boggs,
Music CD 2
  1. Banjo Clog - Dock Boggs,
  2. Wise County Jail - Dock Boggs, Boggs, Dock
  3. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs, Traditional
  4. The Death of Jerry Damron - Dock Boggs,
  5. Railroad Tramp - Dock Boggs,
  6. Poor Boy in Jail - Dock Boggs,
  7. Brother Jim Got Shot - Dock Boggs,
  8. John Henry - Dock Boggs, Traditional
  9. Davenport - Dock Boggs,
  10. Dying Ranger - Dock Boggs,
  11. Little Omie Wise - Dock Boggs,
  12. Sugar Blues - Dock Boggs,
  13. Loving Nancy - Dock Boggs,
  14. Cuba - Dock Boggs,
  15. John Hardy - Dock Boggs, Carter, A.P.
  16. Peggy Walker - Dock Boggs,
  17. I Hope I Live a Few More Days - Dock Boggs,
  18. Turkey in the Straw - Dock Boggs, Traditional
  19. Calvary - Dock Boggs,
  20. Roses While I'm Living - Dock Boggs,
  21. Leave It There - Dock Boggs,
  22. Prayer of a Miner's Child - Dock Boggs,
  23. Coke Oven March - Dock Boggs,
  24. Reuben's Train - Dock Boggs,
  25. Cumberland Gap - Dock Boggs,
  26. Careless Love - Dock Boggs, Handy, W.C.

Free Music Notes for Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968

Free Music Review: Otherworldly, unforgettable music Ground Zero
Hit: 5 Stars

Dock Boggs is the quintessential haunting and haunted banjo player and singer. When I first heard his music a decade ago I felt a shock of recognition that I've never experienced with ANY other musician, regardless of musical style. Perhaps growing up in the backwoods of Mississippi in the 1960s lent me a familiarity to his musical & personal power that may be missing from more "modern" sensibilities. Every fibre in my body has been shaped and haunted by intensely personal innerworkings created by listening to & singing old-time songs and hymns and I find that my emotions are exactly reflected in Dock's music.

Upon hearing him for the first time, I immediately became a Dock Disciple and have incorporated many of his songs into my own banjo & guitar repetoire. It's a long shot that folks with more modern sensibilites will be as overwhelmed by Dock's vision as I, but I can only hope & pray that there are people out there (particularly the younger folks) that will be as moved by the awesome power of Dock as I have been. Dock represents a wisdom and strength of character that is becoming increasingly rare in the country's population today.

Several years ago, when I sat down on his grave in Norton, Virginia and played several of his songs to him on the banjo, the sun was beaming as bright as it could be; when I finished half an hour later with his devastating song "Calvary", it was pouring rain....which seemed so very fitting. Dock's playing & singing reflect an overwhelming quality of "terrible beauty".

It's difficult for me to put into words exactly what Dock's legacy means to me but, if you're ready & willing to give yourself over to an unparalled example of the vanishing strength of American character and the power of an absolutely unique, touching and simple-yet-complex life, Dock's music will thrill you and haunt you as no other. His biography reads like a parable straight from the Old Testement and every moment of his life, from his birth to his death, can be heard in his music.

ESSENTIAL listening; now more than ever, this CD set should be issued to every American upon birth.
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Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968 Poster

Dock Boggs champions will look back at 1998 as a monumental year for the Virginia-born banjo-playing songster who, but for a few years in the late '20s and the early '60s, lived in obscurity. His first recordings have been beautifully reissued in Revenant's Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings package. His shadow looms over Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic--the critic's best book since Mystery Train. And Smithsonian Folkways has brought back 50 recordings made by Mike Seeger during the autumn of Boggs's life. Together with the Revenant material, this two-CD reissue--including a brilliant essay by Barry O'Connell--details one of the most mysterious voices in American music. When Boggs sings he tears each line to pieces and, in turn, the language of his death-obsessed blues rends his voice into a scratchy, painful tremolo. This is not folk music for the timid. "Oh, I've got no sugar baby now," he wails in one of his best-known songs. "It's all I can do for to see peace with you / And I can't get along this-a-way." Along with celebrated material from the '20s, Boggs also chose for these '60s sessions a few gospel tunes, which are sung with the revealing intensity. And on every track, even on the shaky, jagged instrumentals, Boggs captures the darkest and resiliency of a man's soul. --Roy Kasten

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