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.

Tracklist:

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

UPC: 093070545823
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

Dock Boggs - Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs (CD)