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I have been collecting the audio discs of “The American Folk Blues Festival” for many years with large anticipation that the mythic video documents would someday be released. Happily those and some fresh performances are included on this DVD output along with the others in the series. The performances are absolute gems. This disc is a mix of studio and live performances that are so big they bring a amble of joy to my leer. Most of the performers were so rarely filmed that it is a trusty delight to eye them invent. The plot list is identified above, but it is ample of ticket that the musicians backing up the “A” list track artists are a who’s who of blues legends.
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I can’t buy a accepted nick as they are all fantastic, but to spy Otis Urge backing Immense Joe Turner, or the ultra rare filmed appearance of Petite Walter blowing harp for Hound Dog Taylor (four years before Hound Dog’s stellar Alligator debut incidentally), or Buddy Guy’s smart chilly reading of “Out Of Situation”, or the main man, T-Bone Walker, backing Helen Humes, etc. is a treat beyond explanation. The astounding Earl Hooker and Muddy Waters are bonus track features with Paul Oscher making a very cold appearance on “Got My Mojo Working.” Bustle time is about an hour on this disc.
If you are a fan of music, especially blues, then you need this three volume DVD space, now.
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Mighty edifying stuff is to be found here. Huge Mama Thornton gives a (typically) charasmatic performance of the modern “Hound Dog” (yes folks, she recorded it before Elvis) . Dr. Isaiah Ross performs as a “one man band” on harmonica, guital, AND drums and aside from the novelty, he actually sounds agreeable!
Hound Dog Tayor performs with his band and the only footage of Itsy-bitsy Walter Jacobs (who was killed in a street fight some moths later) has him blowing his harmonica in relieve. Taylor sounds a lot like Elmore James. Not abominable, but Jacobs and Koko Taylor (a young Miss Taylor also sings “Wang Dang Doodle” with this group) did not judge highly of Hound Dog Taylor’s playing. (Sounds delicate to me) .
Old time Mississippi country blues is represented by Son House (who inspired Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson), Skip James, and B.B. King’s cousin Booker (Bukka) White. Deciphering these guys requires some earstrain. I’m a sunless South Carolinian and even I had trouble with their thick Mississippi Delta drawls.
The very-appealing Helen Humes closes things with the whole gang in a rousing number that ends with a Dark juke joint audience getting up to do the twist while the players predicament on into the night. The sister with the blonde wig who “works it” in the middle of the floor steals the explain!
Best of all is the bonus footage with the Muddy Waters band where Paul Oscher REALLY goes to town on his harmonica on “Got My Mojo Working.”
In the 1960s, Sunless American pop and Soul singers occasionally appeared on American television, but the blues was considered too extreme for a mass audience at the time. Suitable thing the Europeans had the foresight to hold these unbelievable performers who were as spirited on film as they were on describe.