Image No. 63-8-26 Dock Boggs at the Club 47 Club 47 Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Mass., July 1963 Harry Smith included Dock Boggs' 1928 recordings of "The Country Blues" and "Sugar Baby" on his landmark six-LP collection Anthology of American Folk Music, which was first put out by Folkways Records in the 1950s and has recently been reissued on CD by Smithsonian Folkways. In the folk boom of the 60s, Boggs was one of many traditional performers to influence a new generation of musicians.

Image No. 63-8-21: Dock and Mrs. Boggs Club 47 Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Mass., July 1963

Image No. 63-8-34 Dock Boggs and Mike Seeger Club 47 Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Mass., July 1963

Image No. 63-4N-11 Dock Boggs and John Cohen 1963 Newport Folk Festival Wearing a necktie in the July heat, Dock takes part in an old-time workshop, accompanied by John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers. At left, behind Dock, Clarence Ashley sings along. At right, Cohen's NLCR bandmate, Mike Seeger, listens.

Image No. 63-8N-10 Dock Boggs at Newport 1963 Newport Folk Festival, Sunday, July 28 Dressed in a suit and tie for his evening performance, Dock takes the main Newport stage on the last night of the 1963 Folk Festival. Fog drifting onshore from Naragansett Bay made the performers and the microphones seem to glow.