The legendary old-time blues artist Dock Boggs recorded just 12 songs between 1927 and 1929, and then sold his banjo when the Depression hit, giving up music until 1963 when Mike Seeger tracked him ...

NORTON — Randy Waller and the Country Gentlemen will headline this year’s Dock Boggs and Kate Peters Sturgill Festival, one of the region’s most time-honored music traditions.

My first thought upon hearing the Boggs’ We Are the Boggs We Are was that it sounded a little wrongnot the music itself, mind you, but something wasn’t quite right. But I kept listening because the ...

From the tepid mewling that gets labeled as folk music nowadays, you’d never guess the folk tradition ever contained music as tough and haunted as Dock Boggs’. A coal miner from the age of 12, in and ...

The idea of attending one’s own funeral can be an enticing one — just ask Tom Sawyer. Or ask Charlie Parr, who explores a similar sentiment in his new song “I Ain’t Dead Yet.” On a track from his ...

My mother died in her own bed early in the morning of Sunday, April 11. This was entirely expected; she was 93, and her mind and body both had been failing for years. I wasn’t there when it happened, ...

Vintage previously unreleased performances by Bill Monroe, Mississippi John Hurt, Maybelle Carter, Dock Boggs, Doc Watson and the Stanley Brothers will be heard for the first time on the three-CD set… ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Since its inception in 1983, Representations has been hailed as the best journal in interdisciplinary studies. Now in its 17th year ...

The ripples caused by the collective impact of The White Stripes, the O Brother... soundtrack and Dylan's resurgent interest in roots music continue to spread out across American rock. The latest ...

Title of vol. 3: Songs. Booklet by Harry Smith containing program notes and bibliographical and discographical references (28 p. : ill.) laid in. Cannon's Jug Band: Noah Lewis: Harmonica Gus Cannon: ...

Smithsonian Folkways: SFW 40108; on container: SF 40108. "HDCD." Blues, instrumentals, regional and religious songs. Originally released as analog discs in 1963 (Folkways 2351), 1965 (Folkways 2392), ...