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Dock Boggs:
Old Time Songs From Virginia And Kentucky |
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Moran Lee “Dock” Boggs was born near Norton, Virginia on February 7, 1898 and apparently nurtured ambitions to be a professional musician from an early age. The needs of making a living however dictated that he was destined to work in the coal mines from the age of twelve; but by the mid 1920s he could be found working the tent-shows and theatre circuit in Virginia and eastern Kentucky. His break came in 1927 when he was invited to the Brunswick Company to go to New York to record some of his numbers. The trip north was in the company of John Dyke’s Magic City Trio, who also were to record for Brunswick.
On March 10, 1927 Dock recorded eight numbers accompanied on several by Dyke’s guitarist G.B. “Hub” Mahaffey. Although none of his records sold well Dock wasn’t too downhearted and in September 1929 he recorded another four pieces for Virginia lawyer and old time music enthusiast William E. Myer on his Lonesome Ace “Without A Yodel” Label. Apparently Mr. Meyer didn’t like yodeling (a view shared by the North Carolinian singer Charlie Poole) which, through Jimmie Rodgers, was all the rage at the time. Dock was joined on the session by Emry Arthur on guitar. Unfortunately there was only a limited distribution of Lonesome Ace records and by the early thirties Dock was semi-retired as a musician.
Emry Arthur was one of those pioneering artists who are all but forgotten today. Although he recorded prolifically, with over 50 numbers on record, his main claim to recognition was the first recording of Man Of Constant Sorrow, a ballad he learned from the famous Dick Burnett, fellow musician and friend of the family. Like Burnett, Arthur was a native of Wayne County, Kentucky, where he was born around 1900; together with his brothers Sam and Henry, they became well known locally as musicians. It was during a hunting accident that he lost one of his fingers and had to adopt a more simple way of playing the guitar which on aural evidence doesn’t appear to have hampered him overly. |
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Track Listing
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Dock Boggs
Country Blues
Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long
Down South Blues
Sugar Baby
Danville Girl
Pretty Polly
New Prisoner's Song
Hard Luck Blues
False Hearted Lover's Blues
Old Rub Alcohol Blues
Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There
Lost Love Blues
Emry Arthur
I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers
Let That Liar Alone
No Not One
Why Not Tonight
The Blind Boy
Mother's In Heaven Tonight
Remember The Folks Back Home
Six Months In Jail Ain't Long
Look Out For The Window
I'm Always Thinking Of You |
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Country Blues - Dock Boggs
Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long - Dock Boggs
Down South Blues - Dock Boggs
I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers - Emry Arthur
Let That Liar Alone - Emry Arthur
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| Label |
BACM - British Archive Of Country Music |
| Number |
274 |
| Subsidiary Artists: |
G.H. Hub Mahaffey
Henry Arthur
Arthur's Sacred Singers |
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