A Rare Collection Of Performances By America’s Premiere Bluesmen At The Peak Of Their Artistry.
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!
17 Tracks.
Highlights of Volume One include:
Harmonica legend Sonny Boy Williamson sitting in with Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on the classic “Got My Mojo Working” from the 1963 festival.
John Lee Hooker’s haunting version of “Hobo Blues” from 1965.
Grand finale featuring Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim and an all-star cast from the 1963 tour.
Newly discovered photo archive. Foreword by Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones).
Bonus track from Earl Hooker in 1969, “Walking The Floor Over You / Off The Hook”.
Includes a 24-page booklet with an essay by Rob Bowman.
DVD Features:
Available Audio Tracks: English (PCM Stereo)
Songs: Call Me When You Need Me (T-Bone Walker), Hootin' Blues (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee), The Blues Is Everywhere (Memphis Slim), I Can't Quit You Baby (Otis Rush), Another Night to Cry (Lonnie Johnson), Women Be Wise (Sippie Wallace), Hobo Blues (John Lee Hooker), Five Long Years (Eddie Boyd), Shakey's Blues (Walter 'Shakey' Horton), Hoodoo Man Blues (Junior Wells), Mean Stepfather (Big Joe Williams), Going Down to the River (Mississippi Fred McDowell), Weak Brain and Narrow Mind (Willie Dixon), Nine Below Zero (Sonny Boy Williamson), Spann's Blues (Otis Spann), Got My Mojo Working (Muddy Waters), Bye Bye Blues (Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon)