Show results for

Explore

In Stock

Artists

Actors

Authors

Format

Condition

Theme

Category

Genre

Rated

Label

Specialty

Decades

Size

Color

Deals

Empty image
Legendary Singer & Banjo Player
  • Artist: Dock Boggs
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways
  • UPC: 093070235113
  • Item #: 2083721X
  • Genre: Pop
  • Release Date: 11/30/2018
LP 
List Price: $23.98
Price: $19.03
You Save: $4.95 (21%)
loading image
Get it between Sat. Apr 5 - Mon. Apr 21
Deliver to

You May Also Like

Description

Legendary Singer & Banjo Player on LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (1898 - 1971) was an old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His unique style of singing and banjo playing combined elements of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. A self-taught musician, Dock recorded about eights sides of music between 1927 and 1929. The Great Depression and domestic issues sidelined his musical career until he was "rediscovered" by Mike Seeger (The New Lost City Ramblers) and encouraged to perform at the American Folk Festival in Asheville, NC in 1963. This release contains several songs from that Festival including "Oh Death" and "Country Blues," a song he had originally recorded in the 1920s. The vinyl reissue of Legendary Singer and Banjo Player includes liner notes written by Mike Seeger and Ralph Rinzler, and is part of Folkways Records' 70th anniversary celebration series, revisiting some of the most iconic and influential albums released on the record label.