doc boggs

Subject: doc boggs
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:29 PM

Boggs, while playing a traditional-style of play, did not play in the knock-down, sometimes called clawhammer or frailing style, instead employing a three-finger method that involved picking upwards on the strings of the banjo and permitted him to execute crisp single-note runs in a manner similar to that of a fingerstyle guitarist.
anyone have anymore details on DocBoggs 5 string banjo style.he apparently didnt play in a bluegrass style either.Dick Miles

Subject: RE: doc boggs
From: Goose Gander
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:37 PM

I can tell you he sounds very blues/African-American influenced, but that's about it. But some folks here surely know more.

Subject: RE: doc boggs
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 07:05 PM

There's an extensive essay by Barry O'Connell which covers, amongst other things, Dock Boggs' banjo playing style. It's available for download from the Smithsonian Folkways website. It appears in an abridged form on the CD reissue of Boggs' Folkways albums from the 60s, but you can get the full text here: "Down a Lonesome Road': Dock Boggs' Life in Music"

It's a pdf file.

Cheers

Nigel

Subject: RE: doc boggs
From: Severn
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 07:15 PM

And yes, he did spell Dock with a k.

Subject: RE: doc boggs
From: BanjoRay
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:14 PM

Dock was a superb player and singer, but if you think that clawhammer players cant execute crisp single note runs you've obviously never heard Reed Martin, Walt Koken, Adam Hurt, Mac Benford, Tim Bing, Brad Leftwich and a squillion other great players.
Ray

Subject: RE: doc boggs
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 03:43 AM

Idont think anything.I am quoting from Doc Boggs my space site.