Various – The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 (Volume Three)

Genere: Blues
Stile: Country Blues, Texas Blues, Electric Blues, Chicago Blues, Piano Blues, Delta Blues
Anno: 2004

Big Mama Thornton– Hound Dog
Roosevelt Sykes– Gulfport Boogie
Buddy Guy– Out Of Sight

disc damaged, buddy guy performance cut
video came back with SKIP JAMES

Dr. Isaiah Ross*– Feel So Good (damaged)
Big Joe Turner– Flip, Flop And Fly (damaged)
Skip James– All Night Long
Skip James– Crow Jane
Bukka White– Got Sick And Tired
Son House– Death Letter Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter– Wild About You
Koko Taylor, Little Walter– Wang Dang Doodle
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee– Stranger Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee– Burnt Child (Afraid Of Fire)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee– Gonna Move Across The River
Helen Humes– The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman

Bonus Tracks

Earl Hooker– Earl's Boogie
Muddy Waters– Long Distance Call
Muddy Waters– Got My Mojo Working


The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe as an annual event for several years beginning in 1962. It introduced audiences in Europe, including the UK, to leading blues performers of the day such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, most of whom had never previously performed outside the US. The tours attracted substantial media coverage, including TV shows, and contributed to the growth of the audience for blues music in Europe.
Background

German jazz publicist Joachim-Ernst Berendt first had the idea of bringing original African-American blues performers to Europe. Jazz and rock and roll had become very popular, and both genres drew influences directly back to the blues. Berendt thought that European audiences would flock to concert halls to see them in person.

Promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau brought this idea to reality. By contacting Willie Dixon, an influential blues composer and bassist from Chicago, they were given access to the blues culture of the southern United States. The first festival was held in 1962, and they continued almost annually until 1972, after an eight-year hiatus reviving the festival in 1980 until its final performance in 1985.
Performances and audiences

The concerts featured some of the leading blues artists of the 1960s, such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, some playing in unique combinations such as T-Bone Walker playing guitar for pianist Memphis Slim, Otis Rush with Junior Wells, and Sonny Boy Williamson with Muddy Waters. The Festival DVDs include the only known footage of Little Walter, and rare recordings of Hooker playing harmonica instead of his customary guitar.
T-Bone Walker at a later iteration of AFBF, 1972

The audience at Manchester in 1962, the first venue for the festival in Britain, included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Jimmy Page.[1] Subsequent attendees at the first London festivals are believed to have also included such influential musicians as Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, and Steve Winwood.[citation needed] Collectively, these were the primary movers in the blues explosion that would lead to the British Invasion.

Sonny Boy Williamson's visit to London with the 1963 festival led to him spending a year in Europe including recording the Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds album,[2] (first released on Star-Club Records in 1965), and recording with the Animals.
Performers