Oh Death-Dock Boggs

[LidiaJanklyTube]

Lyrics please!!

[justme2nu3]

thank you very very very much

[coolanddark]

great song! Doc Boggs should be a popular as Justic Beiber.

[MrMusicguyma]

This was recorded by Mike Seeger circa 1963 for Verve Folkways.

[zTazzx]

Now, THIS is some serious SHIT

[jimmylee123able]

I'm sorry it was1971

[jimmylee123able]

Dock Boggs died on his birthday in 1968

[jimmylee123able]

Glad to hear this version. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[jackbeefus]

Pour it on, Dock.

[0713mas]

Outstanding!!!

[poopkillbmx]

So glad I found this song

[ohlongarm]

Totally overwhelming and so raw and awesome

[MrFritz136]

Judy Collins took me and Doc Boggs to lunch in Asheville, North Carolina in 1961 or so. Doc Boggs was charming. Judy Collins was so beautiful. I fell in love with her blue eyes then and there. What a lunchtime that was!

[BenDuvallIrwin]

Traditional Appalachian song also known as Conversation With Death.

[Sydplayson]

I wonder if this is a bestseller where he is now??

[vcp430]

@Sydplayson He passed away in 1973.

[NatsSan]

@Sydplayson Dock Boggs was born Moran Lee Boggs in 1898 and he died in 1971

[Sydplayson]

@NatsSan I'm not sure you and vcp430 understood my remark :)

[Sproeierd]

so this is where death metal comes from...

[MichailZacho]

So happy to find this stunning Doc Boggs song! Loved this album in high school/college! I do know that Doc Boggs used his own unique fingerings for playing banjo. He had his banjo locked up in hock for years due to poverty as an Appelachen coal miner. Finally he got it back out and was able to play it again.

[BigDuda93]

Dock Boggs played his banjo so well legend says even the death would see his shows

[1964atomic]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting it.

[cojak11]

I love the solo vocal version of this song on O' Brother Where Art Thou, I don't remember who sings it but it's sooo haunting

[vcp430]

@cojak11 You're probably thinking of the great, great Dr. Ralph Stanley. He sung this tune on the soundtrack.

[toweringmatt]

@cojak11 ralph stanley

[swfcocs1]

Dock Boggs is a true legend.He and Roscoe Holcomb are my personal favourites.Thank you so much for posting!

[TheMrOcchio]

fantastic!

[ISpellItThc]

very nice

[fredxmertz]

Lordy, this is a heavy heavy number. Thanks so very much for posting.

"Earth and worms both have a claim" wicked cool and haunting.

[liverpool11110000]

Is this the orginal version?

[hydfawr]

@liverpool11110000 Its the earliest version Ive heard in this style.Check out John

Renbourns Death and the Lady from A Maid in Bedlam album. Im guessing this

great song emigrated to the states along with many other folk gems Britain.You might want to try Incredible String Bands Oh Death from 5000 spirits album1967,and

of course Ralph Stanleys many versions are fantastic!

[liverpool11110000]

@hydfawr Thanks! :)

[howlin32]

just the best

[psychedelichobo]

you can tell that this is a rediscovered session

[azairborne]

Would I be commiting a musical crime if I used his early recordings as my easel? I am a Detroit native currently living in south GA and I am intent on forming a psychobilly electric bluegrass band. I think I can open tune my guitar and assign half the work to the bass. Country Blues does funny things to my mind.

[lesgolden]

@azairborne I'm in south GA looking to do about the same thing. Savannah area.

[azairborne]

@lesgolden I got a private message from another interested party; I will keep you abreast of the developing situation...

[Molosserfreund]

this is how doc listen when he rape a bottle of whiskey at once.

[vladhate]

alot missed the like button

[busessuck1]

The banjo and bluegrass in general is awsome, it's just been continously been held back by a negative stereotype

[edisonphonographfan]

my grandfather met dock during the kate 50s through the 60s he knew dock and said he saw him play at fairs and such i just found this out about a month ago i wish he remebered more about dock but great song!

[squeazy55]

Dock Boggs once beat up police officers that tried to break up a party at which he was playing.

[HellbillyCuntryMusic]

@squeazy55 thats fuckin metal!!!

[vcp430]

@squeazy55 That's right! That's where he got the idea to write Wise County Jail.

[subparcheesy]

released out of richlands virginia.

[jeanhaliburtonwills]

great....it is almost certain that this song was composed by a man named Loyd Chandler (look him up on a remarkable compilation called High Atmosphere...his performance beats even Dock Boggs for drama and intensity)

[OscarCommie]

@jeanhaliburtonwills Thanks very much for suggesting Loyd Chandler, his work is realy quite wonderfull.

[milascave]

I saw covers of this song in a couple of movies and liked it, but the original knocks my socks off.

[MinorMeriwether]

phnominal. im commiting suicide right now.

[woodyi59]

@MinorMeriwether LOL!!!!

[SchmittyRKD]

@MinorMeriwether For some reason you caught me off guard and caused IRL LOLery

[RuffRyding]

@SchmittyRKD what if they really did >.>

[SchmittyRKD]

@RuffRyding (s)he didn't, judging by how (s)he's been logging in and subscribing to channels within the last week.

[ohsottovoce]

There's another remarkable version of this "Conversation with Death" performed by Reverend Anderson Johnson (which is available on the epic collection "Goodbye, Babylon").

[bylcote]

wow, i remember camper van beethoven doin' this song...didn't know it was a cover! good stuff!

[blindboyblue]

Love Dock Boggs.

The picture is him late 1927 about the time he was recording for Brunswick.

This song was recorded by Mike Seeger (Petes brother) in 1963 and released on Folkways.

SmithsonianFolkways are reissuing all the Folways back catalogue. They have a channel on YouTube. Well worth a visit.

[RosieKeepinthepromis]

Thanks so much for the info!