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Artist: Dock Boggs Title: The Legendary Dock Boggs Label:   Verve Folkways Country: USA Catalogue: FV-9025 Date: May 1966 Format: Mono LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Dock Boggs	Down South Blues		Rate
A2	Dock Boggs	Country Blues		Rate
A3	Dock Boggs	Pretty Polly		Rate
A4	Dock Boggs	Coal Creek March		Rate
A5	Dock Boggs	My Old Horse Died		Rate
A6	Dock Boggs	Wild Bill Jones		Rate
A7	Dock Boggs	Rowan County Crew		Rate
A8	Dock Boggs	New Prisoner's Song		Rate
B1	Dock Boggs	Oh Death		Rate
B2	Dock Boggs	Prodigal Son		Rate
B3	Dock Boggs	Mother's Advice		Rate
B4	Dock Boggs	Drunkard's Lone Child		Rate
B5	Dock Boggs	Bright Sunny South		Rate
B6	Dock Boggs	Mistreated Mama Blues		Rate
B7	Dock Boggs	Harvey Logan		Rate

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Moran Lee “Dock” Boggs was an “old time” singer and banjo player, who had a style of singing and playing the banjo that was considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. Even though Mr. Boggs had worked in the coal mining industry, he continued to practice the banjo-playing to where he earned a contract to record songs at Brunswick records in New York City.

When Mr. Boggs earned enough money to exclusively concentrate on his musical talents, he quit working in the coal mining industry. For a few years, Mr. Boggs had travelled quite often to different areas of the United States to increase his chances to become a renowned musician. As the stock market crash of 1929 and the great depression occurred, Mr. Boggs had travelled to Chicago to record tunes at Lonesome Ace records, but he could not profit any money to the great depression. Even though Mr. Boggs was offered various recording auditions over the next few years, he was unable to cover his travelling expenses. Accordingly, he had pawned his banjo and had given up professionally playing music.

Three decades later in June 1963, the folk music scholar Mike Seeger sought out and learned that Mr. Boggs had repurchased a banjo and had continued to play that banjo for several months before Mr. Seeger found him. After Mr. Seeger had urged that Mr. Boggs to play at the American Folk Festival in Ashville, North Carolina, Mr. Boggs played so well that he decided to professionally record music again. Consequently, Mr. Boggs had recorded three discs of 33.33 rpm at Folkways Music in New York City even though none of these discs sold well. Finally, without the guidance and encouragement of Mr. Seeger, Mr. Boggs would never have achieved any type of musical career.

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