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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Dock Boggs |
| Record Label: |
Revenant |
| Genre: |
International |
| Subgenre: |
Appalachian |
| Release Date: |
November 01, 2005 |
| Album Duration: |
68m:54s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Sugar Baby
2. Down South Blues
3. Country Blues
4. Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long?
5. Danville Girl
6. Pretty Polly
7. New Prisoner's Song
8. Hard Luck Blues
9. Lost Love Blues
10. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There?
11. Old Rub Alcohol Blues
12. False Hearted Lover's Blues
13. Lost Love Blues (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate take #1)
14. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate take #1)
15. Old Rub Alcohol Blues (previously unreleased, alternate take)
16. Lost Love Blues (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate take #2)
17. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (previously unreleased, alternate take, alternate take #2)
18. Peddler and His Wife
19. Hard for to Love
20. Bound Steel Blues
21. Aunt Jane Blues |
| More Information |
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Personnel: Dock Boggs, Hayes Shepherd (vocals, banjo); Bill Shepherd (vocals, fiddle); Hub Mahaffey (guitar). Engineers include: Barry O'Connell. Includes liner notes by Greil Marcus, Jon Pankake, Charles Wolfe, Barry O'Connell. COUNTRY BLUES contains a 64-page book with rare photos and liner notes by Greil Marcus, Jon Pankake, Charles Wolfe. Personnel: Dock Boggs (vocals, banjo); Bill Shephard (vocals, fiddle). Liner Note Authors: Jon Pankake; Barry O'Connell; Greil Marcus; Charles Wolfe. Photographer: Mike Seeger. Dock Boggs was a banjo player and singer in rural Kentucky in the 1920's. He only cut 12 songs and quit music in the '30s at his wife's insistence, but was rediscovered in the '60s by blues collectors who cherished his few recordings. This CD collects all the original sides, plus outtakes and some feverish tracks by Boggs' acolytes the Sheperd Brothers. Those familiar with Harry Smith's landmark ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC already know "Sugar Baby" and "Country Blues," which remain the b... |
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