Dock Boggs - "Sugar Baby" [Official Audio]

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  • @joshb8976
    @joshb8976 Рік тому +11

    This is seriously one of the coolest songs of all time

  • @fearthesquishyness
    @fearthesquishyness 8 років тому +148

    Dock Boggs was my uncle. His sister was my great-grandmother.

    • @fearthesquishyness
      @fearthesquishyness 8 років тому +4

      ***** Thanks :)

    • @RadicalCaveman
      @RadicalCaveman 7 років тому +5

      He was the rawest, purest singer I've ever heard.

    • @christopherjwoltman6492
      @christopherjwoltman6492 7 років тому +2

      Please learn how to play the banjo, if you don't. ...And get banjos for all your family. We need more!

    • @chrisyoung1996
      @chrisyoung1996 6 років тому +2

      Laura Sisk I wish I could play a banjo like your uncle .

    • @strutt01
      @strutt01 6 років тому +2

      Any of your folks have a voice like Docs?

  • @plemgrubern
    @plemgrubern 9 років тому +27

    this is the best song in the whole world

  • @cent.mi.lowerpeninsula2768
    @cent.mi.lowerpeninsula2768 3 місяці тому

    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 🥁

  • @JanJohanssonmusic
    @JanJohanssonmusic 3 роки тому +2

    now, that's the essence right there...

  • @rileybowman5988
    @rileybowman5988 2 роки тому +1

    This guy is one bad ass banjo player!

  • @MisterNo73
    @MisterNo73 3 роки тому +1

    God bless him

  • @anthonymcdougall505
    @anthonymcdougall505 8 років тому +24

    Red Rocking Chair mash up! A recurring theme in Appalcian string band music. Sampling was invented by these guys..haha!

    • @johnwarner1297
      @johnwarner1297 6 років тому +2

      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"

    • @milascave2
      @milascave2 4 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @mybabygotstoled
      @mybabygotstoled 10 місяців тому

      Interpolation; phrase referencing.

  • @johnnyghee
    @johnnyghee 11 років тому +6

    Man, I LOVE the banjo pickin' in this one - masterful.

  • @pamwilson1653
    @pamwilson1653 3 роки тому +1

    One of my heros

  • @valrocious
    @valrocious 2 роки тому

    Wonderful!! There's music and then there is muzak!!

  • @thomashumphries3519
    @thomashumphries3519 3 роки тому +1

    So good to hear his style of singing combined with playing....nothing like it since..

  • @garymorris9571
    @garymorris9571 10 років тому +5

    One of the greatest.

  • @reginarinehart-uq4zi
    @reginarinehart-uq4zi Рік тому

    Love it.

  • @klauslay2091
    @klauslay2091 3 роки тому

    Banjo. Sehr schön.

  • @MisterNo73
    @MisterNo73 3 роки тому +1

    Bosnia loves this💪👍

  • @IgnatiusCheese
    @IgnatiusCheese 2 роки тому

    As Dr. Ralph Stanley said MOUNTAIN MUSIC

  • @BrandonLewinter
    @BrandonLewinter 5 років тому +12

    Who’s listening to this in 2019 ?

    • @frequency270
      @frequency270 5 років тому +1

      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.

    • @angusmciver798
      @angusmciver798 5 років тому +1

      me - just saw it on William Gibson's playlist on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00941v7

    • @Whatsheisthinking
      @Whatsheisthinking 4 роки тому +1

      Brandon Lewinter Here in 2020. Hiya there!

    • @1957MCL
      @1957MCL 4 роки тому +1

      Those with taste, discernment, curiousity, appreciation, interest, awe, nostalgia...i e me.

    • @vacancesalacanau
      @vacancesalacanau 4 роки тому +1

      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 !!!

  • @darkmysterytemple
    @darkmysterytemple 5 років тому +1

    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

  • @NoSevenProductions
    @NoSevenProductions 11 років тому +1

    SUCH A GOOD MOVIE!!!!

  • @sprackles
    @sprackles 12 років тому +1

    how is better music not indicative of more talent?

  • @vcp430
    @vcp430 13 років тому +5

    @Timothydlol the tuning dock used is gDGCD, otherwise known as sawmill or mountain minor tuning.

    • @johnwarner1297
      @johnwarner1297 6 років тому +3

      Additionally I think it's tuned down half a step, but same basic tuning.

    • @SamBElevenC
      @SamBElevenC 4 роки тому

      I think it’s gDGAD actually. Boggs tuning but with the 5th string on g instead of f#

  • @jakezebloke
    @jakezebloke Рік тому +1

    Take me to Everest

  • @popstickers
    @popstickers 12 років тому +4

    thumbs up if your listening to this in 2012

  • @joshb8976
    @joshb8976 10 місяців тому

    I specifically bought a banjo to learn this song. It’s actually not that easy.

    • @angeleyes885
      @angeleyes885 9 місяців тому

      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!

  • @XxFadexX
    @XxFadexX 5 років тому +1

    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.

  • @clementbourreau4530
    @clementbourreau4530 10 років тому +4

    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.

  • @hillfolkloki996
    @hillfolkloki996 12 років тому +4

    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.

  • @iVenge
    @iVenge 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @HannibalOrJustRex
    @HannibalOrJustRex 4 місяці тому

    ✌️❤️🤘

  • @andpyramids
    @andpyramids 15 років тому

    Agreed. :D

  • @Algernop_Krieger
    @Algernop_Krieger 3 роки тому

    Y'all know the kills?
    Cause they made a sweet cover of this. It's why I am here :)

  • @jackbeefus
    @jackbeefus 13 років тому

    @AgentCarter That makes it G minor rather than G modal. You should turn the B string UP half a step.

  • @vinzelrato
    @vinzelrato 12 років тому +11

    Julien Donkey-Boy brought me here...

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi 11 років тому +5

    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.

    • @John-gi4zi
      @John-gi4zi 6 років тому

      I really prefer that version, to be honest.

  • @gentleeyes
    @gentleeyes 15 років тому +2

    are these remastered? it sounds like it was recorded today.

  • @jackbeefus
    @jackbeefus 13 років тому

    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.

  • @Timothydlol
    @Timothydlol 14 років тому +2

    what tuning is the banjo in?

    • @Timothydlol
      @Timothydlol 4 роки тому +3

      @@matthewgovig thanks haha

    • @michaelcarbonaro3925
      @michaelcarbonaro3925 2 роки тому

      This is one of the most wholesome internet conversations I have ever seen lmao

  • @bjrnrichter4414
    @bjrnrichter4414 7 років тому +1

    Black Prarie made a good but very different version of this

  • @crazyparker9
    @crazyparker9 9 років тому +2

    Anyone know the chords?

    • @Striker7.62
      @Striker7.62 8 років тому +3

      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!

    • @crazyparker9
      @crazyparker9 8 років тому +2

      John Juhant Thanks! I'll give it a shot with the banjo and the guitar!

    • @jasonr3574
      @jasonr3574 8 років тому +5

      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.

  • @jamestown8398
    @jamestown8398 6 років тому

    Can someone explain the meaning behind this song's lyrics?

    • @tjheaton7269
      @tjheaton7269 6 років тому +4

      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

    • @jamestown8398
      @jamestown8398 6 років тому +3

      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".

    • @tjheaton7269
      @tjheaton7269 6 років тому +1

      @@jamestown8398 Yeah, actually reading the lyrics right now, it seems like it's definitely about that

  • @jackbeefus
    @jackbeefus 13 років тому

    @jackbeefus Oops, thought this was the other version.

  • @JTSmith-z1l
    @JTSmith-z1l 8 років тому +6

    Lol, Eagles of Deathmetal did the hardrock version of this one. Kiss the Devil.

    • @mateusmonteiro9918
      @mateusmonteiro9918 8 років тому

      Please show me...

    • @bullarengue
      @bullarengue 2 роки тому

      The resemblance is incredible. Was it intentional?

    • @JTSmith-z1l
      @JTSmith-z1l 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi 11 років тому +1

    So did Bob Dylan.

  • @MeatSnax
    @MeatSnax 13 років тому +3

    @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.

    • @Vigilante311
      @Vigilante311 5 років тому +1

      Thats wrong lil wayne has minus talent, i take your point but bad example

  • @selunaya7837
    @selunaya7837 12 років тому +2

    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.

  • @rfbarrington
    @rfbarrington 11 років тому +4

    Quit that moody broovin'.

  • @ken519356
    @ken519356 12 років тому +4

    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.

  • @vcp430
    @vcp430 12 років тому +1

    Dock had way more talent than both of those clowns.

  • @2rottenn
    @2rottenn 11 років тому

    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

    • @gotmynina
      @gotmynina 8 років тому +2

      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

    • @nicholas6255
      @nicholas6255 6 років тому +1

      ok tyrone