Boggs,Dock Excerpts From Interviews With Dock Boggs CD

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.

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