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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.
Harry Smith and the Holy Grail of Folk Music. If the role of folk music expresses a people’s culture, history, and mythology then the Anthology of American Folk Music fulfills that role admirably. Originally released as a six-record set in 1952 and re-released on CD in 1997, it stood apart from any of the “manufactured” folk of the day, tracing a lineage and presenting a missing link between its earliest traditional forms and the modern day folk revival. More than 50 years later the Anthology still has the ability to beguile and move listeners, often inspiring them to find out how the music came to be and track down more of the same.
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