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I have been collecting the audio discs of “The American Folk Blues Festival” for many years with vast anticipation that the mythic video documents would someday be released. Happily those and some unique 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 tall they bring a bolt of joy to my witness. Most of the performers were so rarely filmed that it is a staunch delight to survey them form. The site list is identified above, but it is gracious of stamp 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 catch a well-liked chop as they are all incredible, but to explore Otis Accelerate backing Astronomical Joe Turner, or the ultra rare filmed appearance of Minute Walter blowing harp for Hound Dog Taylor (four years before Hound Dog’s stellar Alligator debut incidentally), or Buddy Guy’s tidy cold reading of “Out Of State”, or the main man, T-Bone Walker, backing Helen Humes, etc. is a treat beyond explanation. The extraordinary Earl Hooker and Muddy Waters are bonus track features with Paul Oscher making a very icy appearance on “Got My Mojo Working.” Accelerate time is about an hour on this disc.
If you are a fan of music, especially blues, then you need this three volume DVD location, now.
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Mighty helpful stuff is to be found here. Tall Mama Thornton gives a (typically) charasmatic performance of the fresh “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 honorable!
Hound Dog Tayor performs with his band and the only footage of Miniature Walter Jacobs (who was killed in a street fight some moths later) has him blowing his harmonica in encourage. Taylor sounds a lot like Elmore James. Not terrible, but Jacobs and Koko Taylor (a young Miss Taylor also sings “Wang Dang Doodle” with this group) did not mediate highly of Hound Dog Taylor’s playing. (Sounds ravishing 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 sad South Carolinian and even I had misfortune 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 Murky juke joint audience getting up to do the twist while the players dilemma on into the night. The sister with the blonde wig who “works it” in the middle of the floor steals the expose!
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, Murky American pop and Soul singers occasionally appeared on American television, but the blues was considered too grievous for a mass audience at the time. Edifying thing the Europeans had the foresight to maintain these amazing performers who were as entertaining on film as they were on narrate.
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