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Dock Boggs

Dock Boggs
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About the artist

Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7, 1898–February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of play, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of old-time Appalachian mountain music and the blues. 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.

Top songs

  1. Sugar Baby
  2. Country Blues
  3. Down South Blues
  4. Pretty Polly
  5. Oh Death
  6. Wild Bill Jones
  7. New Prisoner's Song
  8. Coal Creek March
  9. Danville Girl
  10. Bright Sunny South
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  1. Old Rub Alcohol Blues
  2. My Old Horse Died
  3. False Hearted Lover's Blues
  4. Lost Love Blues
  5. Prodigal Son
  6. Hard Luck Blues
  7. Drunkard's Lone Child
  8. Mistreated Mama Blues
  9. Rowan County Crew
  10. Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long?
  11. Mother's Advice
  12. Sugar Baby - 2020 Remaster
  13. Harvey Logan
  14. Wise County Jail
  15. Oh, Death
  16. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There?
  17. Cole Younger
  18. Old Joe's Barroom
  19. No Disappointment in Heaven
  20. Turkey in the Straw
  21. Cuba
  22. Banjo Clog
  23. John Henry
  24. Schottische Time
  25. Little Black Train
  26. Mixed Blues
  27. Davenport
  28. Poor Boy in Jail
  29. Cumberland Gap
  30. The Death of Jerry Damron
  31. Prayer of a Miner's Child
  32. Railroad Tramp
  33. John Hardy
  34. Glory Land
  35. Coke Oven March
  36. Little Omie Wise
  37. Calvary
  38. Papa, Build Me a Boat
  39. Sugar Blues
  40. Loving Nancy
  41. Peggy Walker
  42. Dying Ranger
  43. I Hope I Live a Few More Days
  44. Ruben's Train
  45. Brother Jim Got Shot
  46. Careless Love
  47. Leave It There
  48. Roses While I'm Living
  49. Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alternate Take #2)
  50. Lost Love Blues (Unissued Alternate Take #1)
  51. Lost Love Blues [unissued alternate take #1]
  52. Old Rub Alcohol Blues [Alternate Take]
  53. Old Rub Alcohol Blues [sole unissued alternate take]
  54. Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #1]
  55. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #1]
  56. Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #2]
  57. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Unissued Alternate Take #1]
  58. Lost Love Blues [Unissued Alternate Take #2]
  59. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (Unissued Alternate Take #2)
  60. Old Rub Alcohol Blues (Sole Unissued Alternate Take)
  61. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (unissued alternate take #1)
  62. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [unissued alternate take #2]
  63. The Country Blues
  64. Hard For To Love
  65. Aunt Jane Blues
  66. Sammie, Where Have You Been so Long
  67. Peddler And His Wife
  68. Bound Steel Blues
  69. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #2]
  70. Papa, Papa, Build Me a Boat
  71. Brothre Jim Got Shot
  72. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There
  73. Peddler and His Wife [Hayes Shepherd]
  74. Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #1][#]
  75. Hard For To Love [Hayes Shepherd]
  76. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #1][#]
  77. Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #2][#]
  78. Old Rub Alcohol Blues [Alternate Take][#]
  79. Aunt Jane Blues [Bill Shepherd]
  80. Bound Steel Blues [Bill Shepherd]
  81. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #2][#]
  82. False Hearter Lover Blues
  83. No Disappointments in Heaven
  84. Down South
  85. False Hearted Lover Blues
  86. On First Learning to Play and "Living for the Lord"
  87. Brief Recount of his life; Brunswick audition
  88. Sugar Babe
  89. Gloryland
  90. Practicing and Timing for Record

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