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Dock Boggs - Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs

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Format: CD
Catalog: 5458
Rel. Date: 05/30/2012
UPC: 093070545823

Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs
Artist: Dock Boggs
Format: CD
New: Available $19.98
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DISC: 1

1. Brief Recount Of His Life; Brunswick Audition
2. On First Learning To Play And "Living For The Lord"
3. In Taking Up Learning To Play A Banjo...Negro Musicians
4. Playing 'Straight': Plays 'Turkey In The Straw'
5. D Tuning
6. Practicing And Timing For Record
7. Playing For A Living; Trip To New York
8. More About Learning To Play
9. Comments While Looking Over Song Text
10. More On Learning To Play Banjo And First 'Playing Out'
11. About Down South Blues And Playing Blues On The Banjo
12. I Never Thought About Playing Commercially
13. 'Coal Creek March' At Land Sale
14. Why He Left Virginia In 1928
15. About The Name 'Dock'
16. History Of 'The Coal Creek March'
17. Story About Singing 'Rowan County Crew'

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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.
        
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