American Blues

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.

VA - The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Vol. I
DVD 5 Untouched: 4,25 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Rec. Info
Label/Cat#: Reelin' The Years, SWR # 602498609262 | Country/Year: Germany / US 2003
Genre: Blues | Technical: MPEG2/VOB 720x480 NTSC LPCM 16/48 Mono

…Rediscovered after 40 years in the vaults, these priceless recordings of legendary blues artists have been lovingly remastered for the DVD format. Between 1962 and 1966 huge tours were undertaken by the likes of Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, and many others. A popular stop-gap on the tour was a small TV studio in Germany, where the acts would record their songs for posterity. It is from these shows that the recordings contained within are from. An amazing document of a historic time, rediscover these bluesmen in the flesh as they take to the stage in their prime.