Newport Folk Festival - Best Of The Blues 1959-1968
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Artist: Newport Folk FestivalEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Sliding Delta - Mississippi John Hurt
- Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
- Coffee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Stagolee - Mississippi John Hurt
- Here I Am Lord Send Me - Mississippi John Hurt
- Pallet On Your Floor - Mississippi John Hurt
- Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Skip James
- Preaching Blues - Son House
- Death Letter Blues - Son House
- Empire State Express - Son House
- Son Blues - Son House
- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
- Louise - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- If The River Was Whiskey - Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Walkin' Blues - Muddy Waters
- I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
- Levee Camp Blues - Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie - Robert Pete Williams
- On My Way From Texas - Robert Pete Williams
- Freddie - Mance Lipscomb
- So Different Blues - Mance Lipscomb
- God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) - Mance Lipscomb
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller
- I Double Double Do Love You - Jesse Fuller
- Samson & Delilah - Reverend Gary Davis
- I Won't Be Back No More - Reverend Gary Davis
- Intro/The Train Is Leaving - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
- Drink Muddy Water - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
- Long Gone - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
- Key To The Highway - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
- My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
- Clean Up At Home - Sleepy John Estes
- The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Shake That Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Tupelo - John Lee Hooker
- Bus Station Blues - John Lee Hooker
- Let's Make It - John Lee Hooker
- Great Fire Of Natchez - John Lee Hooker
- Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
- I Can't Quit You Baby/Stop Now Baby - John Lee Hooker
- How Long - Memphis Slim
- Black Cat Crossed My Path - Memphis Slim
- Harlem Bound - Memphis Slim
- Piano Instrumental - Memphis Slim
- Blow Wind Blow - Muddy Waters/Otis Spann
- Flood - Muddy Waters/Otis Spann
- See See Rider - The Chambers Brothers
- Blues With A Feeling - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Born In Chicago - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Music reviews of Best Of The Blues 1959-1968
Music Review: A treasure trove
Rating: 5 Stars
It's almost hard to believe that this CD exists. So many excellent performances by legendary bluesmen like Son House, John Lee Hooker, Skip James, Muddy Waters and a whole host of others, all recorded live at the legendary Newport Folk Festival. And the sound is amazing, crisp and clear.
Disc one opens with a six-song set by "Mississippi" John Hurt which includes "Candy Man" and "Stagolee", and also includes two spooky songs by an ailing but still-powerful Nehemiah "Skip" James, four songs by Son House, and songs by Bukka White and Fred McDowell, as well as two excellent acoustic solo performances by Muddy Waters. House's "Death Letter Blues" and "Empire State Express", Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied", and Skip James' "Devil Got My Woman" are among the highlights, but there aren't really any "lowlights".
Disc two features a great little set by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a wonderful rendition of Sleepy John Estes' "Clean Up At Home", three excellent songs by the underrated Robert Pete Williams, and several other fine performances, including Mance Lipscomb's version of Blind Willie Johnson's scary "God Moves On The Water", and Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues" (which you may have heard Eric Clapton cover on his "Unplugged" album).
On disc three, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins plays an electric guitar (gasp!) on a great, swaggering "Baby Please Don't Go", and is backed by drummer Sam Lay on "Shake That Thing". John Lee Hooker lays down haunting versions of "Tupelo" and "The Great Fire Of Natchez", as well as a gritty "Boom Boom". Muddy Waters is accompanied by pianist Otis Spann on a great, swinging "Blow Wind Blow". And the 6'6" John L. "Memphis Slim" Chatman plays a version of "How Long" to rival that of Leroy Carr himself.
The vast majority of these performances are acoustic, and there is a lot of wonderful acoustic slide guitar here...Muddy Waters, Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, and Bukka White all play ringing bottleneck phrases. Sonny Terry blows his customary harmonica, and Memphis Slim and Otis Spann both contribute some excellent piano playing. And while many of these songs have been available on various LP and CD releases before, "Best Of The Blues 1959-1968" includes almost a dozen previously unreleased recordings, of which Sonny Terry's & Brownie McGhee's "Drink Muddy Water", "How Long" by Memphis Slim, and John Lee Hooker's "Let's Make It", are among the greatest.
This collection is a must-have for anyone with an interest in the 60s blues revival, or just acoustic blues music in general, and you won't believe the fidelity. A wonderful two hours and fifty-three minutes of music.
Description of Best Of The Blues 1959-1968
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.These three CDs document some of the greatest moments of culture shock in American music. Most of the bluesmen who first came to Newport had never played before audiences so attentive, large, or white. And those listening had never experienced anything like Skip James's blood-chilling whine, Reverend Gary Davis's furious testifying, or Mississippi John Hurt's twirling melodies. Most of the audience, in fact, assumed the bluesmen were dead. As a cinematic sweep of just what made those countercultural gatherings so exciting and diverse, this set is an unqualified success (though the rather arbitrary and ahistorical sequencing by blues subgenre is as puzzling as the omission of specific performance dates). While many tracks have long been available on other compilations, the unreleased cuts, 11 in all, are revelations, especially Muddy Waters and Otis Spann strutting through "Flood" and John Lee Hooker sinking into the scary groove of "Let's Make It." --Roy Kasten
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