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Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs: Legendary Banjo Player and Singer

Jan 1965•17 Songs

Dock Boggs

Tracks

1
Brief Recount of His Life; Brunswick Audition
Dock Boggs
2
On First Learning to Play and "Living for the Lord"
Dock Boggs
3
In Taking up Learning to Play a Banjo... Negro Musicians
Dock Boggs
4
Playing "Straight": Plays Turkey in the Straw
Dock Boggs
5
D Tuning
Dock Boggs
6
Practicing and Timing for Record
Dock Boggs
7
Playing for a Living; Trip to New York
Dock Boggs
8
More About Learning to Play
Dock Boggs
9
Comments While Looking over Song Text
Dock Boggs
10
More on Learning to Play Banjo, and First "Playing Out"
Dock Boggs
11
About Down South Blues and Playing Blues on the Banjo
Dock Boggs
12
I Never Thought about Playing Commercially
Dock Boggs
13
Coal Creek March at Land Sale
Dock Boggs
14
Why He Left Virginia in 1928
Dock Boggs
15
About the Name "Dock"
Dock Boggs
16
History of the Coal Creek March
Dock Boggs
17
Story About singing Rowan County Crew
Dock Boggs

© 1965 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

℗ 1965 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Folkways Records.

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