The American Folk Blues Festivals 1963-1966 - The British Tours - Various Artists [2007]

Product Details

Artist : Various Artists
Format : Colour, Compilation, DVD-Video, PAL
Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0602517205888
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 0
Release Date : 2007-05-07
Studio : Universal Music Operations
UPC : 602517205888

ASIN : B000OPP7LS

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Synopsis

Features a collection of footage of American folk and blues artists who toured Britain. Includes Muddy Waters, Big Joe Williams, Junior Wells and many more.

Customer Reviews

More Great Blues (2007-06-22)

More AFBF material - this time from British concertsAnyone interested in Blues will have to buy this one. I wasn't aware that the 1964 show was recorded in the UK although I suspected it might have been when a Sonny Boy clip surfaced on YouTube. The cheering that greets Howlin Wolf is extremely heartwarming - he then proceeds to lay down Smokestack Lightnin - unavailable anywhere else on film as far as I know - and Don't Laugh at Me. Lightnin Hopkins is in there too while Sugar Pie Desanto does a couple of spirited performancesAlso from 1964 (but not part of the AFBF series) are two songs apiece from Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the Blues and Gospel Caravan from a now-closed railway station in Manchester. Muddy's performances are some of his best - many of his filmed performances are a little disappointing - along with the Reelin in the Years DVD of Muddy at Newport. Strangely for RITY they don't reveal what most of us already know - bass and drums are Ransom Knowling and Willie Smith - it must have been the tour where Otis Spann recorded one of his best albums There are also parts of the 1963 and 1966 festivals, which leads me on to my personal favourite - has to be Big Joe Turner in probably his best recorded performance doing "Oh Well Oh Well". I recorded this in audio when it was originally broadcast but it's strangely omitted from the 1966 bootleg which is in general circulation. So I couldn't believe my luck when it turned up here. He's in fantastic form and is clearly having a great timeAnother 5 stars for RITY

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