Dock Boggs - "Pretty Polly"

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This video features Dock Boggs' "Pretty Polly" from the 1998 album "His Folkways Years, 1963-1968" on Smithsonian Folkways.

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• pretty
• polly
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• folkways

[hfpitman2]

my daddy when i was a little boy played this on a homemade bango in front of an old fireplace .

[SilentSepia]

Wonderful...what a spooky tuning and playing of his banjar!

[allenshepard]

Clarence Ashley, Dave Macon, Roscoe Holcomb and Doc boggs all have been real influence in my music latley , of course pete seeger and erik darling too

[UncleJohnSawbriar]

Dock was the real deal... A West Virginia coal miner, primarily. He just happened to have recorded a few sides in the '20s, then in the '60s, Folkways searched and found him--and persuaded him to re-record them and get back in the music world.

[bazzer1863]

Wow!

[missylissy7991]

im only 13 and ik every word to this song my traditions are rooted deep in the south in Appalachia

[9lontoonieful1]

I like this old-time musician.

[sheenque]

Good version! The rhythm is a little different than what I was raised with.

[akovia]

Great version.

The Byrds version is my best!

[edisonphonographfan]

most of the older members of my family new dock very well they never thought of hime being famouse or anything he was drunk alot mamaw said her dad and dock used to drink to gether 

[FayeFaye30]

whaaaa????? I can't believe this guy is white

Ive always heard this song mixed in playlists with Robert Johnson and Leadbelly

this whole time Ive been thinking he was a black guy that played the banjo

[boomstickblues]

This rendition is just exquisite.

Dock was and is the MAN, but he was KING with a banjo. I find much of his work to be haunting but beautiful. The kind of music that gives you goosebumps...

In regard to the song, my introduction came in the form of Bert Jansch from his immaculate first record, "Jack Orion".

I never get tired of this music. All the different varieties of folk out there, there's something to be said for all of them.

Haha, looks like I'm rambling on about folk again.