Dock Boggs - Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968
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Artist: Dock BoggsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-15
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Down South Blues
- Country Blues
- Pretty Polly
- Coal Creek March
- My Old Horse Died
- Wild Bill Jones
- Rowan County Crew
- New Prisoner's Song
- Oh Death
- Prodigal Son
- Mother's Advice
- Drunkard's Lone Child
- Bright Sunny South
- Mistreated Mama Blues
- Harvey Logan
- Mixed Blues
- Old Joe's Barroom
- Danville Girl
- Cole Younger
- Schottische Time
- Papa, Build Me a Boat
- Little Black Train
- No Disappointments in Heaven
- Gloryland
- Banjo Clog
- Wise County Jail
- Sugar Baby
- Death of Jerry Damron
- Railroad Tramp
- Poor Boy in Jail
- Brother Jim Got Shot
- John Henry
- Davenport
- Dying Ranger
- Little Omie Wise
- Sugar Blues
- Loving Nancy
- Cuba
- John Hardy
- Peggy Walker
- I Hope I Live a Few More Days
- Turkey in the Straw
- Calvary
- Roses While I'm Living
- Leave It There
- Prayer of a Miner's Child
- Coke Oven March
- Reuben's Train
- Cumberland Gap
- Careless Love
Music reviews of Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968
Music Review: Mike Seeger's little black train has come and gone
Rating: 5 Stars
Mike Seeger's recent death has spurned me into writing some reviews I've wanted to write for years but hadn't yet gotten to. Maybe there's no more fitting tribute to Mike than to say he was the guy who had the determination and foresight to track down Dock Boggs and make these recordings.
Childhood memories of some of Dock's original 12 sides (Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings) stuck with Mike for years. This 2-disc set is the result. Magical Lamentations. Haunting Dissonances. Primordial Repetitions. These are what Dock Boggs' music is to me.
Clarence Ashley's voice got smoother and softer with age. Lonnie Johnson's entire musical aesthetic switched over into much more common territory in his post-war, rediscovery years. Dock Boggs music and vocals, like that of Skip James, took on new, even darker dimensions with age. It doesn't happen here on the lighter fare, but on Bright Sunny South, Little Black Train, Cuba, etc... Dock's banjo is ghostly. A haunted halo surrounds it, and throughout many of my favorite tunes here, his gravel-streaked, coal-dust voice cuts right down the middle of it. This is awesome stuff, folks.
When the tragic Sago Mine explosion occured in West Virginia, this was one of the albums to which I turned. I'd wanted to send a CD-R to the Sago Baptist church to show the town someone outside of their town, outside of their coal culture cared. I didn't know if I should. I didn't know if it'd mean anything to send one CD-R to a town and hope the message was conveyed. In the end, I never did it but I stil think about that disaster every time I hear Prayer of a Miner's Child. That and Miner's Lullaby from Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips are what I continue to regret not sending to the church in Sago. Even if it only helped a couple people, that's a couple more than were helped by not sending.
Music, music, music. Dock Boggs. Mike Seeger. I just have to be happy people like this are part of my life.
Description of 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 KastenGeneral CDs
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