Spotlight #3: Dock Boggs

Hey Vinyl Community, here is episode three on the Spotlight series. This episode is about Appalachian Folk Legend, Dock Boggs. He is one of the seminal figures within Folk music. His banjo playing was like no other and to quote Greil Marcus from Dock Boggs in Thomas Jefferson's Virginia, "Dock Boggs was a singer and banjo player who sounded as if his bones were coming through his skin every time he opened his mouth; that was the sound that drew people to him."

Dock Boggs in Thomas Jefferson's Virginia - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928821

Excerpts from interviews with Dock Boggs - https://folkways.si.edu/dock-boggs/excerpts-from-interviews-with-legendary-banjo-player-and-singer/american-folk-old-time-oral-history-biography/album/smithsonian

The Old Time Herald - http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-6/6-5/dock-boggs.html

The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/11/corn-bread-when-im-hungry/377294/

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Boggs

Mike Seeger interviewing Dock Boggs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uS3RR8UWXg

Dock Boggs performing Country Blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a54YpZIdFS0

Dock Boggs Performing Pretty Polly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1NPpg5XDg