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News and Articles on Dock Boggs
My 20-year love affair with skiffle Jun 1, 2008
We'd built a tea-chest bass on screen and used it to play a Dock Boggs-style 'Careless Love' with banjo and washboard accompaniment, before moving to double bass and guitar for Tarheel Slim's 'Number Nine Train ... Alongside our own compositions, the current songbook includes tunes immortalised by Brownie and Stick McGhee, Dock Boggs, Charlie Feathers and the legendary Washboard Sam, whose bawdy classic 'Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut' remains the rudest song ever recorded. (Guardian Unlimited)
A Dangerous Instrument May 25, 2008
He had been studying the five-string instrument at the Denver Folklore Center and learning to play mountain music in the styles of Appalachian legends Dock Boggs and Roscoe Holcomb. He was unaware that black musicians had largely abandoned the instrument years before. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Hornsby, Skaggs find a fine rhythm together Mar 28, 2007
"And he started turning me on to these old-time traditional players like Dock Boggs and Roscoe Holcomb. He played me this Roscoe Holcomb thing, and I said, 'Man, that's what I want to do. That's where I think we should go with this, real down in the dirt.' ". They ended up cutting two songs from the mountain singer's repertoire, including Across the Rocky Mountain, a six-minute song built on a single chord. (USA Today -- Life)
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