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

101	Brief Recount of His Life; Brunswick Audition	Dock Boggs	05:18
102	On First Learning to Play and "Living for the Lord"	Dock Boggs	01:03
103	In Taking up Learning to Play a Banjo... Negro Musicians	Dock Boggs	04:11
104	Playing "Straight": Plays Turkey in the Straw	Dock Boggs	03:23
105	D Tuning	Dock Boggs	02:38
106	Practicing and Timing for Record	Dock Boggs	01:09
107	Playing for a Living; Trip to New York	Dock Boggs	08:06
108	More About Learning to Play	Dock Boggs	04:17
109	Comments While Looking over Song Text	Dock Boggs	00:33
201	More on Learning to Play Banjo, and First "Playing Out"	Dock Boggs	01:34
202	About Down South Blues and Playing Blues on the Banjo	Dock Boggs	03:25
203	I Never Thought about Playing Commercially	Dock Boggs	06:20
204	Coal Creek March at Land Sale	Dock Boggs	06:31
205	Why He Left Virginia in 1928	Dock Boggs	08:23
206	About the Name "Dock"	Dock Boggs	01:31
207	History of the Coal Creek March	Dock Boggs	01:33
208	Story About singing Rowan County Crew	Dock Boggs	01:31