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	Dock Boggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boggs is deemed by contemporary old-time musicians and performers as a seminal figure in old-time music, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues", on the influential Anthology of American Folk Music collection.
		Boggs was born in Norton, Virginia and began working in the coal mines of Appalachia at the age of twelve.
		Boggs, while playing a traditional-style of play, did not play in the knock-down, sometimes called clawhammer or frailing style, instead employing a three-finger method that involved picking upwards on the strings of the banjo and permitted him to execute crisp single-note runs in a manner similar to that of a fingerstyle guitarist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dock_Boggs (373 words)

	Only Remembered For What He Has Done - Dock Boggs
		Dock Boggs' 1927 recordings of raw, powerful singing and distinctive banjo-playing have moved and influenced musicians, fans and scholars ever since their release.
		Dock was a coal miner in southwestern Virginia and played music informally there except for a brief period when he had a band after his 1927 recordings.
		Dock answered, "I'd be honored to do anything I could around here to help promote old-time music." It was to be the first time he'd played for the local public in many years and the first time a music festival featuring local talent had been held at Clinch Valley College.
	www.oldtimeherald.org /archive/back_issues/volume-6/6-5/dock-boggs.html (3781 words)

	Dock Boggs - TheBestLinks.com - Blues, Banjo, February 7, New York, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Boggs was born in West Norton, Virginia and began working in the coal mines of Appalachia at the age of twelve.
		As was the case of many musicians and performers of his era, Boggs learned to play the banjo watching and listening to family members and other performers.
		Boggs, while playing a traditional-style of play, did not play in the knock-down, sometimes called clawhammer or frailing style, but rather, played a three-finger style of play.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dock_Boggs.html (369 words)

	Dock Boggs - His Folkways Years 1963-1968
		Dock Boggs was at the top of Seeger's research list because of "the serious raw, other-worldly power that [his] music possessed", and in the summer of 1963, the search ended in Norton, Virginia.
		Music doesn't seem to have functioned as a personal catharsis for the young Dock Boggs nor, despite the effects that he deemed it to be having, even to have been especially central to his life.
		And yet nobody could ever characterise Boggs' music as impersonal or unemotional; and this despite the fact that the 'I' who often appears in or narrates his songs is clearly not Dock Boggs.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/boggs.htm (1220 words)

	Blues On Stage - Dock Boggs
		In the late twenties Dock Boggs, a coal miner from Virginia who played banjo at parties, recorded a dozen songs for a couple of labels.
		Boggs first heard "John Henry" as a boy, when he followed a fl guitarist named Go Lightning on his street playing rounds-"it would thrill me from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.
		Dock is playing better and singing almost as well as in his early days.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/boggs-cd.html (614 words)

	Dock Boggs
		Dock found that he was a celebrity in Virginia and found that people were willing to pay to hear him play.
		Dock had from time to time dabbled in moonshine, but this incident was, according to Dock, a setup orchestrated by this dishonest lawman.
		Dock was unable to raise the funds for the trip to Louisville.
	www.zeppmusic.com /banjo/dboggs.htm (1962 words)

	Biography of Dock Boggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dock Boggs (February 7, 1898, West Norton, Virginia-February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time banjo player.
		Boggs is deemed by contemporary old-time musicians and performers as a seminal figure in old-time music, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, Sugar Baby and Country Blues, on the influential Anthology of American Folk Music.
		Boggs began working in the coal mines of Appalachia at the age of twelve.
	biography-3.qardinalinfo.com /b/Boggs_Dock.html (369 words)

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		Boggs was known for his unusual banjo style which he learned from a fl musician in Virginia.
		Despite Boggs’ interest in music, his devoutly religious wife frowned on him showing any real interest in music, so he continued playing as a hobby.
		Boggs was ‘discovered’ by Mike Seeger on a field-collecting expedition at a time when Boggs had not played the banjo for some 25 years.
	www.centrohd.com /bio/bio5/dock_boggs_b.htm (155 words)

	Dock Boggs: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7,1898–February 7, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Boggs was born in West Norton, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Bluegrass music is considered a form of american roots music with its own roots in the english, irish traditional music and scottish traditional music of immigrants...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dock_boggs.htm (1527 words)

	Jelly review: Dock Boggs
		Boggs started working in the Virginia coal mines at the age of twelve, picking up the banjo when he was in his twenties.
		When Dock was twenty-nine, a scout from New York’s Brunswick Records came looking for mountain talent, and with some help from a half pint of whiskey, Dock passed the audition (beating out A. Carter of the Carter family).
		Boggs has been described as a white Robert Johnson, and though the context and style of the two men’s music is considerably different, both sang with a unique intensity about similar subjects.
	www.jellyroll.com /07/dockboggs.html (497 words)

	tradsongs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most historians of American Folk music agree that Boggs was incredibly skilled with the banjo, sometimes picking the melody on the third and fourth strings while he played an accompaniment on the first and second strings.
		During the next ten years, Dock was influenced by many banjo players, such as Homer Crawford (a banjo picker and singer), his brother-in-law Lee Hunsucker (a preacher), and his brothers and sisters (especially his brother Roscoe).
		Dock discovered that he was quite popular in Virginia, though, and made about three to four hundred dollars a week with his band.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~appalach/writersS/tradsongs.htm (2006 words)

	Dock Boggs: Articles
		Southwest Virginians Play For Phonograph Records In New York From a unknown newspaper, circa 1927, discussing the recent trip of John Dykes and Dock Boggs to NYC to record for Brunswick.
		Norton's Dock Boggs Has Style All His Own Written by Curwood Garrett for an unidentified newspaper, circa 1964.
		Dock's Old Mastertone Another Old Time Herald article about Dock's banjo, written by Don Mussell and Jack Wright.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/longtimecoming/dockboggs/articles.html (225 words)

	Dock Boggs (Va. music)-html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One writer said Boggs’ music sounded like his bones were coming through his skin.
		In retrospect, it is easy to assign the bleeding edge of his voice to a desperate urgency: He would only have a short time in the hailstorm of his life to sing what he wanted.
		Dock’s primal country blues still carry the sound of that pain.
	www.virginiamusicflash.com /Dock.html (342 words)

	Dock Boggs - Country Blues - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Boggs took what he needed, a sort of cut-and-paste of styles; he eschewed the popular ‘clawhammer’, or ‘knockdown’ styles, opting for a more melodic attack and adopting several unusual tunings; tuning the banjo to match his voice rather than matching his voice to the sing of the strings.
		When Boggs gets going, as he does on “Sugar Baby”, or “Country Blues”, one is privy to a voice, that for all its Virginia twang, stands as solid and unwavering as a host of fire and brimstone Protestants.
		Ultimately, it’s impossible to lock Boggs into genre’s cellblock: it’s not folk, roots, or blues; it’s only a man, a man with a whittled stick of a voice and ten fingers as swift as they are strong; a man as beaten as he was victorious; a man as together as he was fractured.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=2215 (808 words)

	Dock Boggs - Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968 : 2 Audio CD Set: Music-Hills.com
		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.
		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.
		Dock Bogg's music is typical of old time music by white appalachian performers, particularly banjo players.
	www.music-hills.com /Dock-Boggs/Dock-Boggs-His-Folkways-Years-1963-1968-B00000AFQO.htm (973 words)

	Dock Boggs MP3 Downloads - Dock Boggs Music Downloads - Dock Boggs Music Videos
		Dock Boggs was just one of the primeval hillbillies to record during the '20s, forgotten for decades until the folk revival of the '60s revived his career at the twilight of his life.
		Boggs began picking up songs from family members and the radio.
		Boggs worked until 1954, when mechanical innovations forced him out of a job.
	www.mp3.com /dock-boggs/artists/17850/biography.html (500 words)

	longtimecoming: Dock Boggs
		All information on Long Time Coming: Dock Boggs is solely for educational purposes; all copyrights remain the property of those who have registered the material.
		Excerpts From Interviews With Dock Boggs, Legendary Singer and Banjo Player (FA 5458) Excerpts with Mike Seeger's interviews with Dock Boggs, recorded and edited by Mike Seeger.
		Smithsonian/Folkways Dock Boggs Site This site includes "A Brief Musical Biography of Dock Boggs" by Steve Curtis, a discography of Dock Boggs' Folkways releases, along with Real Audio sound clips from Boggs' music and interviews with Mike Seeger.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/longtimecoming/dockboggs/main.html (537 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: Folklore, and Folk Music,&Traditional Culture Into K12 Education - Art infused ...
		Moran Lee (Dock) Boggs was born in 1898 in West Norton and lived near there most of his life.
		Dock was especially enamored by the blues, as seems obvious when listening to "Oh, Death." For more complete information on Dock's life and music, I suggest Folkways FH 5458, Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs.
		Dock learned his version of "Oh, Death" from his friend Lee Hunsucker in the 1930s and fit it to Homer Crawford's unusual D tuning of f#CGAD, starting with the fifth string.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Teachers/folkOhDeath.html (795 words)

	Dock Boggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7,1898–February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player.
		Boggs, while playing a traditional-style of play, did not play in the knock-down, sometimes called clawhammer or frailing style, but rather, played a three-finger method.
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	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Dock_Boggs (1502 words)

	Dock Boggs
		Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs was born near Norton VA in 1898.
		In 1927 representatives for the Brunswick label visited Norton and Boggs was picked up and taken to New York to do eight sides for the label.
		Although his records sold fairly well (mainly in his local area), he never really made it big, and the depression in 1929 combined with his wife's weak health forced Boggs to quit his musical career and return to the more reliable income at the mines.
	www.blues-banjo.com /masters/boggs-dock.html (192 words)

	i dock - MultiGids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		The Dock is a graphical user interface feature first introduced in the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems, and radically changed and refined in Mac OS X, where it behaves more like Newtons Newton OS Dock.
	www.multigids.com /msr_i_dock.html (366 words)

	Amazon.com: Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968: Music: Dock Boggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Boggs bares his soul through his voice - the pain, loss and loves of his life can be felt clearly in every one of these traditional folk, bluegrass and blues songs.
		Dock Boggs sings like he's bleeding to death and picks the banjo in a [heck]-bent syncopation.
		First, Dock Bogs is a musician whose career was interrupted for 35 years by the Depression.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000AFQO?v=glance (1425 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dock Boggs
		Not even one day can contain all the bluegrass music to be featured in this year's Dock Boggs Festival which, for the first time in its history, will feature two days of performances by traditional mountain musicians.
		The Dock Boggs Festival begins Saturday at noon and continues until 8:30 p.m.
		I really went through a heavy phase where all I listened to was Dock Boggs.
	news.surfwax.com /music/files/Dock_Boggs.html (1184 words)

	Dock Boggs Memorial Festival: Virginia Is For Lovers
		Dock Boggs Memorial Festival: Virginia Is For Lovers
		Held annually the second Saturday in September, this festival honors the lives of two local extraordinary musicians —banjoist Moran Lea “Dock” Boggs and ballad singer and songwriter Kate O’Neill Peters Sturgill.
		Dock Boggs was one of the truly great American folk musicians of the twentieth century.
	www.virginia.org /site/description.asp?AttrID=17955&MGrp=3&MCat=11&MItm=93&Rgn=10000&Page=1&Dir=S (128 words)

	RootsWeb: Melungeon-L [Melungeon] applachian story of Dock Boggs
		February 7 is the birthday of Dock Boggs, the legendary early
		Dock retired from the coal mines in the early '60s, and just a few
		Dock was thankful, to say the least, and overjoyed to get his
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/Melungeon/2001-02/0981767139 (517 words)

	TRIKONT - prayers from hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dock Boggs experienced this opposition more deeply than most.
		During the first wave of enthusiasm for his music, Boggs quit his career in 1930 at his wife's insistence that he was being led down the wrong path.
		Interest in his work was stirred by the inclusion of tracks such as "Sugar Baby" and "Count Blues" on Smith's Anthology, these and others (included here as well) led to Boggs's return to performing three decades later, a welcomed presence at 60s folk festivals.
	www.trikont.com /catalogue/267_prayers_from_hell/267_prayers_from_hell.html (486 words)

	Two Dock Boggs tunes
		Here are a couple of Dock Boggs songs as requested -- New Prisoner's Song and Drunkard's Lone Child -- the first is played up-picking style (with down brushes) out of gCGBD tuning in C (tuned low) -- the second is three-finger thumb lead in f#CGAD tuning.
		I would really like to know where Dock got this song; it far surpasses the creepy sentimentality that a lot of the parlor songs featured.
		Dock was the reason I picked up a banjo and started singin.
	www.weeniecampbell.com /yabbse/index.php?topic=813.msg6686#msg6686 (992 words)

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