Freddy Badger | Country Blues at Dock Boggs’ grave | Freddy Badger & Joseph McCarthy @FreddyBadger | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
I had the great privilege today of paying respects and playing a couple songs for Dock Boggs. Listening to his recordings is what inspired me to get my first banjo. I owe a great deal to him and his music; in truth I cannot imagine what my life would look like now if I had not heard his music - that inspiration to pick up a banjo really set the course that my life has taken since.
This is a traditional song originally called "Hustling Gamblers." Dock Boggs learned it from a traveling musician named Homer Crawford, added some lyrics of his own, and called it "Country Blues."
Joseph McCarthy on fiddle, video by Grace Stormont.
"I'm pleased to get a chance even to put on all the old songs I've got. I'd love to put them on so that when I'm gone why the young people they can have them in memory of me."
-Dock Boggs
I had the great privilege today of paying respects and playing a couple songs for Dock Boggs. Listening to his recordings is what inspired me to get my first banjo. I owe a great deal to him and his music; in truth I cannot imagine what my life would look like now if I had not heard his music - that inspiration to pick up a banjo really set the course that my life has taken since.
This is a traditional song originally called "Hustling Gamblers." Dock Boggs learned it from a traveling musician named Homer Crawford, added some lyrics of his own, and called it "Country Blues."
Joseph McCarthy on fiddle, video by Grace Stormont.
"I'm pleased to get a chance even to put on all the old songs I've got. I'd love to put them on so that when I'm gone why the young people they can have them in memory of me."
-Dock Boggs
