Excerpts from Interviews with Dock Boggs

Folkways

Recorded excerpts of an interview with Dock Boggs condicted by Mike Seeger

Tracks

• Brief Recount of his life; Brunswick audition
• On first learning to play and "living for the Lord"
• In Taking Up Learning to Play a Banjo... Negro musicians
• Playing "Straight": Plays Turkey in the Straw
• D Tuning
• Practicing and Timing for Record
• Playing for a Living; Trip to New York
• More About Learning to Play
• Comments While Looking Over Song Text
• More on learning to play banjo, and first "playing out"
• About Down South Blues and Playing Blues on the Banjo
• I never thought about playing commercially
• Coal Creek March at Land Sale
• Why He Left Virginia in 1928
• About the name "Dock"
• History of the Coal Creek March
• Story about singing Rowan County Crew

• Recording, editing - Mike Seeger
• Interview transcription - John Pankake