American Blues

This is a well-organized, smartly chosen 20-track compilation of some of the lesser-known early Mississippi blues artists. Garfield Akers is about the most famous, which tells you right there how obscure most of these names - King Solomon Hill, Otto Virgial, Mattie Delaney, Joe Calicott, Blind Joe Reynolds, John D. Fox and others - are to the general listening public. It's quality material, however, and not in a drastically different league than the most renowned classics by singers like Tommy Johnson and Son House. The guitar playing and singing are emotional and inventive throughout, but standouts include Mattie Delaney, Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley, some of the relatively few guitar-playing Delta blueswomen who recorded; Wiley's minor-key, doomy "Last Kind Words" is particularly affecting.

VA - American Folk Blues Festival '63
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 254 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Bellaphon # CDLR 42023 | Country/Year: Germany 198_, 1981
Genre: Blues, Folk | Style: Folk, Traditional Blues

The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe beginning in 1962. (…) 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, Sonny Boy Williamson with Muddy Waters.

VA - American Folk Blues Festival '67
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 206 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Bellaphon # CDLR 42070 | Country/Year: Germany 1990
Genre: Blues, Folk | Style: Folk, Traditional Blues

The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe beginning in 1962. (…) 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, Sonny Boy Williamson with Muddy Waters.