Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968

Dock Boggs champions will look back at 1998 as a monumental year for the Virginia-born banjo-playing songster who, but for a few years in the late '20s and the early '60s, lived in obscurity. His first recordings have been beautifully reissued in Revenant's Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings package. His shadow looms over Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic--the critic's best book since Mystery Train. And Smithsonian Folkways has brought back 50 recordings made by Mike Seeger during the autumn of Boggs's life. Together with the Revenant material, this two-CD reissue--including a brilliant essay by Barry O'Connell--details one of the most mysterious voices in American music. When Boggs sings he tears each line to pieces and, in turn, the language of his death-obsessed blues rends his voice into a scratchy, painful tremolo. This is not folk music for the timid. "Oh, I've got no sugar baby now," he wails in one of his best-known songs. "It's all I can do for to see peace with you / And I can't get along this-a-way." Along with celebrated material from the '20s, Boggs also chose for these '60s sessions a few gospel tunes, which are sung with the revealing intensity. And on every track, even on the shaky, jagged instrumentals, Boggs captures the darkest and resiliency of a man's soul. --Roy Kasten more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-21-2006; Otherworldly, unforgettable music Ground Zero; Dock Boggs is the quintessential haunting and haunted banjo player and singer. When I first heard his music a decade ago I felt a shock of recognition that I've never experienced with ANY other musician, regardless of musical style....; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-25-2004; GREAT CD!!!!!!!!!!; These are two vry good cds. Dock Boggs' work is amazing. I like his Prodigal Son so much. All the songs are good. So are the liner notes. Any one who likes Bascom Lamar Lunsfod, Uncle Dave Macon, Tom Ashley, Grayson & Whitter and all...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-07-2004; Blues Old Timey Blues Old Timey, banjo, banjo, banjo; Dock Bogg's music is typical of old time music by white appalachian performers, particularly banjo players. In this forum, his grand neice points out that he has one of the best combinations of Blues and country ever found. He was a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-27-2003; Applachian Best; My review is a "little" prejudiced since Dock Boggs was my great uncle but I think his music is the best combination of blues and folk around. He put all he had into his music and loved it. It will bring chills and good feelings to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-21-2006; Otherworldly, unforgettable music Ground Zero; Dock Boggs is the quintessential haunting and haunted banjo player and singer. When I first heard his music a decade ago I felt a shock of recognition that I've never experienced with ANY other musician, regardless of musical style....; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-15-1999; Kept looking for my false teeth; Very down home, not for the uninitiated.Hope to hear more but not at night alone in the dark; read full review | report as inappropriate