The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 2 (1962) Review

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(More customer reviews)Are you ready to watch some classic footage of great blues, from the legends to the modern masters of acoustic to the electric featuring essential performances covering the last half-century of blues. Some of the greatest of the great blues performers doing what they do best...BLUES! When you watch this video the feelings come through loud and clear. The sound and performances are picture perfect, very collectible to all the blues fans out there.
"American Folk Blues Festivals 1962-1966 Vol. 2", featuring Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thorton, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf some of the legends that put it on the line and then some. Each performer playing side by side and giving their all. Sit back and enjoy as each cue is dead on, with detailed liner-notes and a little history of their background and accomplishments. This DVD is proof that once and for all Blues is very much alive and well. If you enjoyed this volume, then volume one is another winner...gotta love it!
Total Time: 80 mins ~ Hip-O Records 602498604137 ~ (8/26/2003)

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Reelin’ In The Years Productions, in association with Experience Hendrix,bring you the American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Volumes One & Two. TheAFBF was an annual event that featured the cream of American blues musicians barnstorming their way across western Europe every fall from 1962through 1966. Recorded live in a small TV studio in Germany, these historicand unseen performances have been lost for nearly 40 years. Filmed withsuperb camera work and pristine sound, each DVD contains 18 completeperformances from the greatest blues musicians of all time. Captured duringtheir heyday in an era of scant video documentation, these DVDs are trulyone of the most unique and precious visual documents of the blues.The American Folk Blues Festivals featured a dazzling array of talent thatincluded such greats as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, John LeeHooker and Sonny Boy Williamson playing alongside other legends such asT-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Memphis Slim and Big Mama Thornton to create the most significant group of blues artistsever assembled!

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