Dock Boggs - His Folkways Years (1963-1968) [2 CD, 1998/FLAC]


 Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7, 1898 – February 7, 1971) was an American old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. Contemporary folk musicians and performers consider him a seminal figure, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues", on Harry Smith's 1951 collection Anthology of American Folk Music. Boggs was first recorded in 1927 and again in 1929, although he worked primarily as a coal miner for most of his life.

He was rediscovered during the folk music revival of the 1960s and spent much of his later life playing at folk music festivals and recording for Folkways Records.








CD 1


01. Down South Blues
02. Country Blues
03. Pretty Polly
04. Coal Creek March
05. My Old Horse Died
06. Wild Bill Jones
07. Rowan County Crew
08. New Prisoner's Song
09. Oh Death
10. Prodigal Son
11. Mother's Advice
12. Drunkard's Lone Child
13. Bright Sunny South
14. Mistreated Mama Blues
15. Harvey Logan
16. Mixed Blues
17. Old Joe's bar room
18. Danville Girl
19. Cole Younger
20. Schottische Time
21. Papa, Build Me a Boat
22. Little Black Train
23. No Disappointment in Heaven
24. Gloryland


CD 2


01. Banjo Clog
02. Wise County Jail
03. Sugar Baby
04. The Death of Jerry Damron
05. Railroad Tramp
06. Poor Boy in Jail
07. Brother Jim Got Shot
08. John Henry
09. Davenport
10. Dying Ranger
11. Little Omie Wise
12. Sugar Blues
13. Loving Nancy
14. Cuba
15. John Hardy
16. Peggy Walker
17. I Hope I Live a Few More Days
18. Turkey in the Straw
19. Calvary
20. Roses While I'm Living
21. Leave It There
22. Prayer of a Miner's Child
23. Coke Oven March
24. Ruben's Train
25. Cumberland Gap
26. Careless Love