Dock Boggs (USA/VA) - Remembering Dock Boggs (Full Album) 

I'm a PA native, any good story from that day?

boggs said the difference was that especially the New York recordings the company provided him and his band mates with bonded Scotch Whiskey then during Prohibition, with Boggs being a moonshiner at the time. he said sometimes they were more concerned with the whiskey than the music quality. In the early 30s his wife joined a hardshell church that thought banjo playing was sinful and he left the banjo with a friend in KY and gave up moonshining and such and went into the coal mines. About 1960 his wife and he joined a holiness church where music was played, and in fact at the first service he attended a young woman was praising the lord on a 5 string banjo and went and go this banjo. Boggs was a complete innovator, rather than a carrier of some anciet tradition. He combined the fingering approaches of the guitar banjo style now often called classic banjo with the rhythmic approaches often found in 2 finger and claw hammer, but he was also very much interest in African American blues and even recorded a number or two that came from jazz records. In the 60s folk festivals he became friends with Mississippi John Hurt and told people if he had to do it over again he might have been a finger style blues guitarist like Hurt.

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