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Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs: Legendary Banjo Player and Singer

Dock Boggs
Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs: Legendary Banjo Player and Singer

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.

Track Listing

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Dock Boggs
05:18
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102
Dock Boggs
01:03
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103
Dock Boggs
04:11
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104
Dock Boggs
03:23
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105
Dock Boggs
02:38
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106
Dock Boggs
01:09
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107
Dock Boggs
08:06
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108
Dock Boggs
04:17
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109
Dock Boggs
00:33
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201
Dock Boggs
01:34
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202
Dock Boggs
03:25
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203
Dock Boggs
06:20
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Dock Boggs
06:31
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Dock Boggs
08:23
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Dock Boggs
01:31
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Dock Boggs
01:33
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Dock Boggs
01:31