The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
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Actor: John Lee Hooker, Muddy WatersBrand: Uni
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, Compilation, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hip-O Records
Movie Reviews of The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
Movie Review: Yes, this IS essential blues
Summary: 5 Stars
If I were cranky, grumpy, whining nit-picking person, I would say it's a pity these SENSATIONAL recordings are not presented chronologically (you get songs from 1962 to 1969 (excellent bonus tracks of Earl Hooker), but who cares? Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Spann, Big Joe Williams, T-Bone Walker and the rest of the crew is captured at (or darn near) their creative peak and the footage is beautiful (although I tend to agree with the comments that stress the inadequacy of fake-rural setting for an artist such as T-Bone Walker)...
My favorite performances of this DVD (after only watching it twice) are given by Sonny Boy Williamson ("Nine Below Zero") and Sippie Wallace ("Women be Wise"), but there's no weak track here.
Additional joy is when the blues giants introduce each other (T-Bone introduces Terry&McGhee, McGhee introduces Memphis Slim...) and I should mention that they accompany each others features (T-Bone Walker and Willie Dixon play for Memphis Slim, Otis Spann and Dixon play for Lonnie Johnson, Buddy Guy plays for Eddie Boyd, Boyd and Guy play for Walter "Shakey" Horton...)...
p.s.
The design and liner notes are excellent, but it seems to me that the same booklet is used for volumes 1 & 2 (and probably for vol. 3, but I haven't bought that one. Yet.)
Summary of The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
Reelin? In The Years Productions, in association with Experience Hendrix, bring you the American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Volumes One & Two. The AFBF was an annual event that featured the cream of American blues musicians barnstorming their way across western Europe every fall from 1962 through 1966. Recorded live in a small TV studio in Germany, these historic and unseen performances have been lost for nearly 40 years. Filmed with superb camera work and pristine sound, each DVD contains 18 complete performances from the greatest blues musicians of all time. Captured during their heyday in an era of scant video documentation, these DVDs are truly one of the most unique and precious visual documents of the blues.The American Folk Blues Festivals featured a dazzling array of talent that included such greats as Muddy Waters, Howlin? Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson playing alongside other legends such as T-Bone Walker, Lightnin? Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Memphis Slim and Big Mama Thornton to create the most significant group of blues artists ever assembled!
Unearthed some 40 years after the fact, this has to be one of the finest blues collections ever assembled on video. Thanks to a couple of young promoters who brought the musicians to Europe--where they were treated with a good deal more respect and dignity than in America--we get an extraordinary lineup of bluesmen and women: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace... the list goes on. Their concert performances (several in stagy but effective down-home settings) before a rather formal but appreciative German audience have them playing in some cool combinations (T-Bone Walker backing Memphis Slim, Otis Rush with Junior Wells), even introducing one another (Williamson on guitarist Lonnie Johnson, an elder statesman on the tour: "A very nice musician")--and all with great sound (mono, but still flawless) and visuals (in black and white). This is one for blues fans to treasure. --Sam Graham
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