Julien's "Dad" Werner loved it...where are you Mt. Everest? do not take if hypersensitive...it might even "wake you UP!" & do you feel lucky with Dirty Harry...straight-from-A-la-bam-a, & Alvin Law on percussion 🥁
Also some similar references to Mississippi John Hurt's song "Payday" "Yeah, I did all I can do, and I can't get along with you I'm gonna take you to your mama, pay day"
Discovered this song by Col. J.D. Wilkes' dual projects of the Dirt Daubers (who did a more traditional version) & the Legendary Shack Shakers (who did a high energy alt-country version) in 2009 & 2010, respectively.
His version is the best one I've heard, I like his roll so I learned it. Simple tune and simple but very beautiful roll he uses. I can replicate it on the banjo. But his voice is impossible to replicate ha Very special. My favorite Banjo player along with Erbsen, Scruggs, and Seager
You should check out the cover by Sam Amidon, I thought it was his song till I looked up the lyrics. He really transforms the feeling of the song, and makes it his own.
wow this man worked in the coal mines (and survived, obviously) for half of his life and created this rustic greatness of America that beats and surpasses everything that comes from hiphop or rap.
Listen to the version on Smithsonian "Anthology of American Folk Music". It's rougher but more soulful than this as Doc Boggs recorded it when he was a younger man.
There are like 3 chords in this version. I assume being banjo it's in g minor? So the chords are basically, Gm, Bb repeated and eventually an f on the turn around. The melody is 100% a g minor pentatonic scale, hope this helps!
If you buy the 2 CD anthology from Smithsonian folkways you will find the banjo tunings to every song. I highly recommend it. it's a brilliant collection of music. figuring out the chords is much easier when you have the right tuning.
That sounds about right. It sounds like the singer is the one breaking off his relationship, and that he's doing it due to the monetary costs of his lover being too high. He says "what more could a poor boy do" and "I can't make a living this way".
@Mapmanjag Aren't you the coolest. Music isn't a contest about who listens to the radio less, Eminem and Lil' Wayne aren't any less or more talented than Dock Boggs.
I agree. I like Dock Boggs far better than any popular artist you could mention, but I don't think he has more talent. It's all very subjective, and one million people would tell you Dock Boggs suck compared to Lil Wayne on a Lil Wayne video. You can either consider yourself better than 70% of the people around the world and hate and watch them with contempt, or just accept other people's taste. You can say his music is better though, this could be objective, but not that he has more talent.
eminem and lil wayne dont even have enough talent to carry his banjo case. they should try working there whole life in coal mine and still have the energy to write perfect music. an army of studio producers an equipment make there music if you can even call it that.
This is seriously one of the coolest songs of all time
Dock Boggs was my uncle. His sister was my great-grandmother.
***** Thanks :)
He was the rawest, purest singer I've ever heard.
Please learn how to play the banjo, if you don't. ...And get banjos for all your family. We need more!
Laura Sisk I wish I could play a banjo like your uncle .
Any of your folks have a voice like Docs?
this is the best song in the whole world
Julien's "Dad" Werner loved it...where are you Mt. Everest? do not take if hypersensitive...it might even "wake you UP!" & do you feel lucky with Dirty Harry...straight-from-A-la-bam-a, & Alvin Law on percussion 🥁
now, that's the essence right there...
This guy is one bad ass banjo player!
God bless him
Red Rocking Chair mash up! A recurring theme in Appalcian string band music. Sampling was invented by these guys..haha!
Also some similar references to Mississippi John Hurt's song "Payday"
"Yeah, I did all I can do, and I can't get along with you
I'm gonna take you to your mama, pay day"
anthony: I think it's a folk music thing in general. Taking a bit of one song and putting it in another. You hear a lot of that in the Blues, too.
Interpolation; phrase referencing.
Man, I LOVE the banjo pickin' in this one - masterful.
One of my heros
Wonderful!! There's music and then there is muzak!!
So good to hear his style of singing combined with playing....nothing like it since..
One of the greatest.
Love it.
Banjo. Sehr schön.
Bosnia loves this💪👍
As Dr. Ralph Stanley said MOUNTAIN MUSIC
Who’s listening to this in 2019 ?
Discovered this song by Col. J.D. Wilkes' dual projects of the Dirt Daubers (who did a more traditional version) & the Legendary Shack Shakers (who did a high energy alt-country version) in 2009 & 2010, respectively.
me - just saw it on William Gibson's playlist on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00941v7
Brandon Lewinter Here in 2020. Hiya there!
Those with taste, discernment, curiousity, appreciation, interest, awe, nostalgia...i e me.
I listened to it back in 1997 and still do in 2020. That’s pure magic. Go try to bring out so much emotion from a computer !!!
His version is the best one I've heard, I like his roll so I learned it. Simple tune and simple but very beautiful roll he uses. I can replicate it on the banjo. But his voice is impossible to replicate ha Very special. My favorite Banjo player along with Erbsen, Scruggs, and Seager
SUCH A GOOD MOVIE!!!!
how is better music not indicative of more talent?
Mhm
@Timothydlol the tuning dock used is gDGCD, otherwise known as sawmill or mountain minor tuning.
Additionally I think it's tuned down half a step, but same basic tuning.
I think it’s gDGAD actually. Boggs tuning but with the 5th string on g instead of f#
Take me to Everest
thumbs up if your listening to this in 2012
I specifically bought a banjo to learn this song. It’s actually not that easy.
You’d have to be quite ignorant to believe that playing dock boggs banjo songs is easy!!! Gluck I got a banjo myself just to learn bright sunny south!
You should check out the cover by Sam Amidon, I thought it was his song till I looked up the lyrics. He really transforms the feeling of the song, and makes it his own.
Herzog avec un masque à gaz buvant du sirop codéiné dans un chausson ... On ne te remerciera jamais assez pour Julien Donkey-Boy cher Harmony Korine.
wow this man worked in the coal mines (and survived, obviously) for half of his life and created this rustic greatness of America that beats and surpasses everything that comes from hiphop or rap.
One of my all time favourite songs. But I like the way he sang it back in the ‘30s better than how he sang it here.
✌️❤️🤘
Agreed. :D
Y'all know the kills?
Cause they made a sweet cover of this. It's why I am here :)
@AgentCarter That makes it G minor rather than G modal. You should turn the B string UP half a step.
Julien Donkey-Boy brought me here...
Chaos, chaos, it doesn't even rhyme..
Listen to the version on Smithsonian "Anthology of American Folk Music". It's rougher but more soulful than this as Doc Boggs recorded it when he was a younger man.
I really prefer that version, to be honest.
are these remastered? it sounds like it was recorded today.
I agree with vcp430 that he's in sawmill here, but it sounds to me like he's a half step or two, which was pretty normal for Dock.
what tuning is the banjo in?
@@matthewgovig thanks haha
This is one of the most wholesome internet conversations I have ever seen lmao
Black Prarie made a good but very different version of this
Anyone know the chords?
There are like 3 chords in this version. I assume being banjo it's in g minor? So the chords are basically, Gm, Bb repeated and eventually an f on the turn around. The melody is 100% a g minor pentatonic scale, hope this helps!
John Juhant Thanks! I'll give it a shot with the banjo and the guitar!
If you buy the 2 CD anthology from Smithsonian folkways you will find the banjo tunings to every song. I highly recommend it. it's a brilliant collection of music. figuring out the chords is much easier when you have the right tuning.
Can someone explain the meaning behind this song's lyrics?
I think it's about running out of money to support his lover. Or it's about losing his feelings for his lover. Or it's about his lover leaving him
That sounds about right.
It sounds like the singer is the one breaking off his relationship, and that he's doing it due to the monetary costs of his lover being too high. He says "what more could a poor boy do" and "I can't make a living this way".
@@jamestown8398 Yeah, actually reading the lyrics right now, it seems like it's definitely about that
@jackbeefus Oops, thought this was the other version.
Lol, Eagles of Deathmetal did the hardrock version of this one. Kiss the Devil.
Please show me...
The resemblance is incredible. Was it intentional?
@@bullarengue They are basicly a fun band who just have a different take on several styles of music. I like to think it was intentional.
So did Bob Dylan.
@Mapmanjag Aren't you the coolest. Music isn't a contest about who listens to the radio less, Eminem and Lil' Wayne aren't any less or more talented than Dock Boggs.
Thats wrong lil wayne has minus talent, i take your point but bad example
I agree. I like Dock Boggs far better than any popular artist you could mention, but I don't think he has more talent. It's all very subjective, and one million people would tell you Dock Boggs suck compared to Lil Wayne on a Lil Wayne video. You can either consider yourself better than 70% of the people around the world and hate and watch them with contempt, or just accept other people's taste.
You can say his music is better though, this could be objective, but not that he has more talent.
Quit that moody broovin'.
eminem and lil wayne dont even have enough talent to carry his banjo case. they should try working there whole life in coal mine and still have the energy to write perfect music. an army of studio producers an equipment make there music if you can even call it that.
Dock had way more talent than both of those clowns.
Lil wayne is garbage but to say eminem is not talented is ignorant. Writes movies acts in them wins an oscar for best song in a film. Different worlds
so....cause hes white and lil wayne is black....you dont have to pretend to like eminem its not 2002 anymore. also this song sucks
ok tyrone