Photo of Dock Boggs: 1898 - 1971. A pillar of traditional folk music, Dock Boggs was a mountain banjo player-songster with the ability to transcend typical hillbilly labels. He developed a unique three-finger picking method of banjo playing from which he intuitively interpreted the blues. As for his voice, no better description exists than that by music critic Greil Marcus when he said it “…sounded as if his bones were coming through his skin every time he opened his mouth.” It was uncompromising music that, like the coal from the mines he worked in, seemed to come from below the earth. Bogg’s sound is primitive, unsettling, and captivating all at once.

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Old Time Banjo Explosion. 35 MP3s. 95MB zip file.