Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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 - 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 - oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-6/6-5/dock-boggs.html
The Atlantic - theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/11/corn-bread-when-im-hungry/377294
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Boggs
Mike Seeger interviewing Dock Boggs - youtube.com/watch?v=9uS3RR8UWXg
Dock Boggs performing Country Blues - youtube.com/watch?v=a54YpZIdFS0
Dock Boggs Performing Pretty Polly - youtube.com/watch?v=kl1NPpg5XDg
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 - 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 - oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-6/6-5/dock-boggs.html
The Atlantic - theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/11/corn-bread-when-im-hungry/377294
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Boggs
Mike Seeger interviewing Dock Boggs - youtube.com/watch?v=9uS3RR8UWXg
Dock Boggs performing Country Blues - youtube.com/watch?v=a54YpZIdFS0
Dock Boggs Performing Pretty Polly - youtube.com/watch?v=kl1NPpg5XDg
