Dock Boggs

Dock Boggs was a singular figure in Appalachian music whose banjo style was explicitly modeled on the Black string band musicians he heard in the coal camps of Virginia. Unlike the rhythmic 'clawhammer' style, Boggs picked out a bluesy, syncopated melody line using an idiosyncratic three-finger style. Tracks like 'Country Blues' and 'Sugar Baby' are among the most profound fusions of Appalachian folk and African American blues ever recorded. He was rediscovered in the 1960s folk revival.