Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings

by Dock Boggs

Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 1997
  • Label: Revenant
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:03
  • Community rating: 4.42/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Country Blues' assembles everything Dock Boggs recorded in the nineteen-twenties, eight Brunswick sides from 1927 and four for Lonesome Ace in 1929, together with alternate takes, in a hardcover package with a lengthy essay by Greil Marcus. Boggs, a Virginia coal miner who fingerpicked the banjo in a style learned from Black string bands, had two songs on Harry Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music'.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, folk, acoustic, bluesy, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Sugar Baby (2:58)
  2. Down South Blues (3:09)
  3. Country Blues (3:04)
  4. Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long? (3:06)
  5. Danville Girl (3:11)
  6. Pretty Polly (3:05)
  7. New Prisoner's Song (2:54)
  8. Hard Luck Blues (2:59)
  9. Lost Love Blues (3:06)
  10. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (2:54)
  11. Old Rub Alcohol Blues (3:16)
  12. False Hearted Lover's Blues (5:27)
  13. Lost Love Blues (3:04)
  14. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (2:55)
  15. Old Rub Alcohol Blues (3:14)
  16. Lost Love Blues (3:08)
  17. Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? (4:56)
  18. Peddler And His Wife (3:23)
  19. Hard For To Love (3:17)
  20. Bound Steel Blues (3:06)
  21. Aunt Jane Blues (2:51)

Credits

  • Dock Boggs - primary artist, banjo, vocals
  • Hayes Shepherd - banjo, vocals
  • Bill Shepherd - fiddle, vocals
  • Alan Stoker - transferred by [78 to dat]
  • Jack Towers - transferred by [78 to dat]
  • Richard Nevins - transferred by [78 to dat]
  • Scott Colburn - transferred by [tape to dat]
  • Charlie Pilzer - mastered by [cd mastering and noise reduction], mastering
  • David Glasser - mastered by [cd mastering and noise reduction], mastering

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