DOCK BOGGS - OLD RUB ALCOHOL BLUES

[1952banjo]

just wonderful !! Dock Boggs is great! I love Roscoe Holcomb also great old singer and player!!!

[coolanddark]

It just doesnt get much better than this! Great song!

[Rickchenier]

this song is terrible, totaly and complete garbage



[10000spawn]

@Rickchenier what motivates you to choose troll? the fame & glamour? 

[FayeFaye30]

also, Native Americans had plenty of percussion and wind instruments before Europeans settled here

[FayeFaye30]

the moog was invented in America, along with pretty much every electric synthesizer,what other musical instruments have been invented anywhere in the world within the last 100 years?? theramin maybe?

[willspires]

Another fine track.  See Mike Seeger's fine recordings for the rest.

[Hawgboy66]

The hardest thing I ever tried,

Was keeping pork chops off of my mind.

BRILLIANT!

This music brings tears to my eyes.

(Literally)

[mtthwdvs]

banjo actually originated from an african instrument three strings and frettless then it changes and morphed into the banjo.......the only instrument invented in america

[jackbeefus]

@mtthwdvs The Appalachian dulcimer is also an American instrument, as well as the glass armonica (Ben Franklin), and the kazoo, the frottoir and most of the electric versions of various instruments. There are probably a few more as well.

[mtthwdvs]

@jackbeefus but arnt these all just instruments that have been more or less just americanized........i guess the same could be said of the banjo as well tho

[jackbeefus]

@mtthwdvs You could say that, but you'd have to define where you draw the line between invention and modification. True, the five string banjo is just a modified African banjo, but that was just an adaptation of something else, as was that from yet something else, and so on till you get the first stringed instrument. So I guess it's up you to call it how you see it.

[frippp66]

Love the song & also the photograph as well.

[sheilapatrick1]

yeeeeeeeeeeeehoooooooooooooowa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaw

[jimeneycricket27]

does anybody know if he is kin to maw tessie and bonner boggs

[milascave]

When your drinking that rubbi ng alcohol, you know you have the blues.

[MichailZacho]

Doc Boggs is great! I love his unique sound and banjo sound. Did not he do many others, including one about a motherless child? I remember that one with great emotion. Can you post that one and any others you can find? Your efforts seem the most satisfactory of all the Doc Boggs presenters.

Thanks

[Creekjeff]

Fiery Furnaces actually were covering The Horse Flies version of years before...

Dock Boggs is the best... but had major crazy anger as a person, by his own admission...

[peeee471]

great.......

[edisonphonographfan]

my papaw new dock to an extend not best budds my papaws name was robert leon short he new dock when he was older and his neeces husband is docks cousin

[maritimemoose]

god, i love drinking rubbing alcohol, oh dont forget listerine mm

[BUZZUBUZZU]

good cover by The Fiery Furnaces. very sad one...

[koolbrez56]

good stuff- thanks for posting

[jtallen12345]

perfect

[Mysterymusicgirl]

this is a good one of Doc Boggs to i love old recordings wonderful

[HerbertRTarlekJr]

Perhaps you should seek employment elsewhere!Seriously, you're right,his music will always be remembered by those who appreciate his genius.

[BrunoEspo]

legend..i tried playing docks music for some folks at work and they HATED IT. how can you not LOVE this mans music..he is and will always be remmembered by the people who apreciate this mans ability to just express what he sang with such feeling and awesome style. love this recording..there used to be some live footage of dock in his later years on you tube a few years back but the user deleted it..sux

[jukeboybob]

Actually, I CAN imagine some people hating this music. --they are the people not worthy of yout time!

cheers.

[lostintheblues]

i know, my wife can't stand when i put him on, i tell her she's nuts, how can you not appreciate the depth and substance of his music,

He was a blues legend and one of the best

[gilbertwham]

@BrunoEspo Yes, everyone hated it where I work, too. It made me love him even more.

[xSNOWYJOEx]

@BrunoEspo it's really unfortunate how prejudiced people are to traditional, oldtime and country music or anything with a banjo for that matter... I too have no idea how anyone could hate this type of music if they truly approached it with a sober and open mind. I struggle every day to convince people that traditional music isn't some stupid racist hillbilly phenomenon, but in fact one of the most sincere meditative and intensely expressive music in existence. hard times son hard times indeed..

[RastafariPoet]

@xSNOWYJOEx

It can't have anything to do with racial intolerence. Black people were singin/playin the same music. We were always together.

[xSNOWYJOEx]

@RastafariPoet that's what I'm saying man people nowadays associate the banjo and oldtime music with racism and hillbillies and shit which is really unfortunate. Carolina Chocolate Drops FTW

[FayeFaye30]

@BrunoEspo they probably hated it because its not a 14 year old girl singing about being a slut

[LadyPuddleton]

Marvellous. I intend to engage him to play for me at Puddleton Manor.

[johnnymccrowe]

hahaha

good luck with that!

[alanfromdarwen]

may one ask, where is puddleton manor....

[gitfiddlejim]

Quite near to Much Piddlin.

G

[morleyrox]

sorry to tell you but he died not to long ago it was just back in the early 70's. "you missed him by that much"

[ilovechugs]

@LadyPuddleton Indubitably.

[bluesgirl62]

¨Brilliant.Thanks

[johnnymccrowe]

your welcome!

[hfpitman]

i saw a man drink a half bottle of rub strait down ,i dont know how he did ,this song reminded me.

[EagerBoy49]

Fantastic! My favorite by Dock Boggs.

[Gballz1981]

Happy Birthday Dock/RIP You are the king on the banjo bro. ....Thank you so much

[BrunoEspo]

my favorite banjo player and voice ...thanx for posting this!

[johnnymccrowe]

no problem, glad you enjoyed it!

[carolynan]

BRILLIANT,LOVE IT THANKS

[rbseaver]

One of Boggs' best! Thanks for posting!

[370sp]

super,merci

[checkraisedbywolves]

thanks for posting this great piece