Dock Boggs
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 1952 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. |
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Brunswick | E21795-E21796 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Country blues | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21797-E21798 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Sammie, where have you been so long | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo and guitar | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21799-E21800 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Down South blues | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo and guitar | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21801-E21802 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Sugar baby | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo and guitar | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21811-E21812 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Danville girl | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21813-E21814 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Pretty Polly | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21815-E21816 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | New prisoner’s song | Dock Boggs ; Hub Mahaffey | Male vocal solo, with banjo and guitar | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo | |
Brunswick | E21817-E21818 | 10-in. | 3/10/1927 | Hard luck blues | Dock Boggs | Male vocal solo, with banjo and guitar | vocalist, instrumentalist, banjo |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Boggs, Dock," accessed November 5, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/109980.
Boggs, Dock. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 5, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/109980.
"Boggs, Dock." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Boggs, Dock, 1898-1971 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94032502
Wikidata: Dock Boggs - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1233734
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/34653706
MusicBrainz: Dock Boggs - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/78fad453-6853-4c74-9237-e5160afd9db0
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