Dock Boggs - "Wild Bill Jones" [Official Audio]

Listen to the official audio of Dock Boggs' "Wild Bill Jones" from the 1998 album 'His Folkways Years, 1963-1968' on Smithsonian Folkways.
'His Folkways Years, 1963-1968' is available on 2xCD box set and digital.
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Dock Boggs recorded only 12 songs in the 1920s, but his raw, powerful singing and distinctive banjo-playing caused Harry Smith to include him in his Anthology of American Folk Music (SFW 40090) and Mike Seeger to search for him in the hills of Kentucky in 1963. A new series of recording sessions captured the 50 blues, instrumentals, regional and religious songs included in this two-CD set. Originally released to high acclaim on three Folkways Records LPs in the 1960s, they have influenced musicians ever since. Extensive notes by Mike Seeger and Barry O'Connell.
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[@Paddyontheturnpike60]

His music lives on as long as there are those who will play, and those who will listen. RIP.

[@SirCoughsalot]

Without the Folkways record company, the repertoire of the average folksinger would be severely limited. Love Dock Boggs.

[@gorcaacrog2597]

His sound is so elemental. It doesn't need anything else.

[@bigbuckslayer11]

i get cold chills every time i hear him

[@jasonpasi7728]

This fire

[@charlesmccormick4443]

Your always appreciated ........

[@sunzsu]

its like he plays a sound im searching my whole life for.. its like that sometihng comes out which was there all the time... its so archaic, haunting and raw.. this guy is a pretty cool one ! rip

[@darion8476]

This and surgar baby...wow..

[@SteveMORRIS-jz4oi]

Never heard of him but he is really good even on the Banjo.

[@gentleeyes]

treasure

[@ArkRed1]

Stand and face his challanger whether it be in a fist fight or a duel.

[@94757598494309438]

Exactly, like the place sung of by Raymond Fairchild in the song "Back in yonders world" on the album titled: Blake and Rice 2 -Norman Blake and Tony Rice.

[@hfpitman2]

thank you for replying too my comment about pretty polly

[@shawnbishop1796]

Required listening.

[@worldserviceradio]

Clarence Ashley does a great version of this

[@kurtisjames1592]

Anyone got tips to play this song on the guitar?

[@GrandisUtu]

Best way is to listen a whole bunch and then make it your own

[@DanDDirges]

Best Dock Boggs song. He sings in a much lower key here which don't grate on the nerves to badly.

[@Jambi555]

"Looking for the man who made old Wild Bill stand." What does it mean to make a man stand? I've never understood that line.

[@burnm6rk]

Means to fight. Looking for a man to challenge wild Bill. Hope this answers worht waiting 4 years for.

[@recklessjelly1484]

It’s an old phrase “I’m gonna make wild bill stand (before god)”

[@markkilianski]

1:21 "and I've (?) one poor boy's soul". All the lyrics I can find say "destroyed" or "stroyed" but that's definitely not what he's saying. Can anybody make out what that word is?

[@davidmena2226]

sounds like he said "tored" dialectal past participle of "tear"

[@jeremywebster9046]

Sounds to me like he says "and I tore at one poor boys soul".

[@MrRomero00]

Mark Kilianski tore em one poor boys soul

[@simonvarney5261]

He’s saying “stroyed”

[@markkilianski]

@@simonvarney5261 that's the standard lyric, but definitely not what he says here

[@harryfarrarvi1182]

Cripps Red Dead Redemption 2