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- Artist: Dock Boggs
- Rating:
- Release Date: October 21, 1997
- Total Time: 68:54
- Type: Compilation (best of), Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Folk
Review
Released on John Fahey's Revenant label, this Dock Boggs collection includes all 12 of his 1927-29 recordings, plus five alternate takes and four cuts by Bill and Hayes Shepherd, friends and fellow players of Boggs. Included with the set is a 64-page book with essays by Greil Marcus, among others, and this is undoubtedly the best Dock Boggs collection ever assembled. ~ John Bush, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Sugar Baby | Traditional | Dock Boggs | (2:58) |
| Down South Blues | Dock Boggs | Dock Boggs | (3:08) |
| Country Blues | Dock Boggs | Dock Boggs | (3:04) |
| Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long? | Dock Boggs | (3:05) | |
| Danville Girl | Dock Boggs, Traditional | Dock Boggs | (3:10) |
| Pretty Polly | Dock Boggs, Traditional | Dock Boggs | (3:04) |
| New Prisoner's Song | Dock Boggs | Dock Boggs | (2:53) |
| Hard Luck Blues | Dock Boggs | (2:58) | |
| Lost Love Blues | Dock Boggs | (3:06) | |
| Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? | Dock Boggs | (2:54) | |
| Old Rub Alcohol Blues | Dock Boggs | (3:16) | |
| False Hearted Lover's Blues | Dock Boggs | (5:26) | |
| Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #1][#] | Dock Boggs | (3:04) | |
| Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #1][#] | Dock Boggs | (2:55) | |
| Old Rub Alcohol Blues [Alternate Take][#] | Dock Boggs | (3:13) | |
| Lost Love Blues [Alternate Take #2][#] | Dock Boggs | (3:07) | |
| Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? [Alternate Take #2][#] | Dock Boggs | (4:56) | |
| Peddler and His Wife | Hayes Shepherd | Dock Boggs, Hayes Shepherd | (3:23) |
| Hard for to Love | Hayes Shepherd | Dock Boggs, Hayes Shepherd | (3:17) |
| Bound Steel Blues | Bill Shepherd | Dock Boggs, |
(3:06) |
| Aunt Jane Blues | Bill Shepherd | Dock Boggs, |
(2:51) |
