This IS the Real Blues!
美國藍調音樂:大不列顛巡迴演出American Folk Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966
《The American Folk Blues Festival》Skip James、Bukka White、Son House、Little Walter、Hound Dog Taylor、Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee、Earl Hooker，這些老傢伙都有啊！這不是在聽歌，而是黑白分明的精彩表演！太珍貴！
這類DVD，就資料珍貴性而言，相當於BLUES音樂史的一個超級檔案，黑白的畫面修復的相當清晰，攝影角度沉穩到位，錄音也極少瑕疵；而老藝人們的表演，都是超級精彩，任何人看了這些表演，都會愛上BLUES，而且發狂。
這張DVD的口琴大餐首先由Sonny Boy Williamson奉上，最值得一提是Sonny Boy Williamson將口琴含在嘴裡演奏，甚至用鼻子表演,以及一段很長........的長音,真是出神入化!每個人都吹口琴，輪番演奏，邊奏邊跳啊！吉他部分都是滿分表演， Lightnin" Hopkins帶來他"德州式藍調"吉他演奏令人印象深刻..Big Joe Williams則讓我們見識到了著名的9弦吉他,這一段狂歡式表演太精彩太珍貴，就憑這個表演，也絕對超值。
再來說說這DVD的由來，《The American Folk Blues Festival 》，其實並非是發生在美國的某個音樂節上，而是指20世紀60年代美國老一輩BLUES藝人飛躍大西洋，在大不列顛巡迴演出，這些演出，影響了不少後來的白人搖滾樂手。本DVD收錄的就是1963年至1969年期間，美國這些老黑藝人開拓歐洲市場（適逢美國BLUES復興運動）的精彩記錄。這些錄像是當年一家電視台演播廳裡錄製的，有些表演時，下面是有觀眾的，有些似乎沒有，而舞台布景特意呈現了美國街頭景象，酒吧、木屋等，很有戲劇效果，在今天看來，當年的製作絲毫不比今天遜色。
表演曲目：
1. Keep It To Yourself--Sonny Boy Williamson 1963
2. Get My Mojo Working--Muddy Waters 1963
3. Too Late To Cry--Lonnie Johnson 1963
4. Baby Please Don't Go--Big Joe Williams 1963
5. Bye Bye Bird--Sonny Boy Williamson 1964
6. Getting Out of Town--Sonny Boy Williamson 1964
7. Come Go with Me--Lightnin' Hopkins 1964
8. Lightnin's Blues--Lightnin' Hopkins 1964
9. Baby What You Want Me To Do--Sugar Pie DeSanto 1964
10.Rock Me Baby--Sugar Pie DeSanto 1964
11.Smokestack Lighting--Howlin' Wolf 1964
12.Don't Laugh At Me--Howlin' Wolf 1964
13.Oh Well, Oh Well--Big Joe Turner 1966
14.What'd I Say--Junior Wells 1966
Bonus Tracks:
1. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had--Muddy Waters 1964
2. Blow Wind Blow--Muddy Waters 1964
3. Didn't It Rain--Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1964
4. Trouble In Mind--Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1964
Reviews from Amazon by Perry Celestino
This series originally came out during the Year Of The Blues (2003) and provided us with glimpses of the real originals in this genre. The first three volumes gave us a lot of wonderful clips of Wolf, Sonny Boy, Memphis Slim, Otis Rush, Muddy, T-Bone, Big Mamma, Lonnie Johnson and so on. The German settings were a bit sterile and often staged to look like a Juke or with strange back drops of urban America. This set, from 1963-1966, is more like a concert. And it's great!
The concert format with an appreciative audience is really fantastic and well done for the time. We see Sonny Boy Williamson in three performances with the harp in his mouth sideways and playing with his NOSE! He is cool, no wonder he taught Little Walter (whose only recorded performance is in Vol. 3 of this series!).We also see Hubert Sumlin play with Sonny Boy on his second offering in this show. He turns in one of his most unusual solos in "Getting Out Of Town"- very chromatic and almost jazzy! We see Muddy Waters as a stand up singer (no guitar), on "Mojo" and in two bonus performances. He has Matt "Guitar" Murphy playing behind him on this one (who was playing with Memphis Slim at the time). There is a rare look at the great Lonnie Johnson, who plays by himself and shows us why he is one of the original inventors of the Urban Blues guitar style. Big Joe Williams gives us a close up view of his famous nine string guitar.
Lightnin' Hopkins plays his distinctive Texas-style acoustic blues, with a few tricks on the fretboard as well.Howlin' Wolf puts in, to me, his best ever filmed performance-it's worth the price of the whole thing!!! He does an update of "Smokestack Lightning" (without its famous riff) and "Don't Laugh At Me" in a "Killing Floor" groove, a song which had just been recorded. And we also see a young Hubert Sumlin playing with Wolf and also with Sugar Pie Desanto's female input (these shows always had at least one female performer).
Big Joe Turner does his usual big voiced thing and he has Otis Rush on lead guitar, it's a fantastic performance, one of the best insight's into Otis's guitar style we've seen. A bonus in this tune is that we see maybe the only existing footage of pianist Little Brother Montgomery who wrote "The First Time I met the Blues" and "I Can't Keep From Crying"-this is a rarity. Also scarce is film of drummer Fred Below, who gave the beat to Chess Records. Fred plays on this tune and in Junior Well's section.
Junior Wells is in his James Brown groove (he always did this! In Australia in 1991 when I saw him he led off with "I Feel Good"). He does Ray Charles'"What'D I Say" in a JB style, but we hear no harp! Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the first US Blues/Gospel acts to crack the UK, finishes the set with two of the bonus tracks. They are superb as is Muddy Waters' two bonus tracks staged and filmed at a railway station-very effective. His slide playing (standing up) is another extremely rare view of Muddy.
This is one of the most historic releases for urban blues yet available. The sound has been remixed by Eddie Kramer (of Jimi Hendrix fame) and Reelin' In The Years Productions have done it again! I hope they can find more of these rarities soon. We need the Fillmore Concerts that were on PBS in the late sixities. Get this for your Blues collection and check the price, what a bargain!
《The American Folk Blues Festival》Skip James、Bukka White、Son House、Little Walter、Hound Dog Taylor、Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee、Earl Hooker，這些老傢伙都有啊！這不是在聽歌，而是黑白分明的精彩表演！太珍貴！
這類DVD，就資料珍貴性而言，相當於BLUES音樂史的一個超級檔案，黑白的畫面修復的相當清晰，攝影角度沉穩到位，錄音也極少瑕疵；而老藝人們的表演，都是超級精彩，任何人看了這些表演，都會愛上BLUES，而且發狂。
這張DVD的口琴大餐首先由Sonny Boy Williamson奉上，最值得一提是Sonny Boy Williamson將口琴含在嘴裡演奏，甚至用鼻子表演,以及一段很長........的長音,真是出神入化!每個人都吹口琴，輪番演奏，邊奏邊跳啊！吉他部分都是滿分表演， Lightnin" Hopkins帶來他"德州式藍調"吉他演奏令人印象深刻..Big Joe Williams則讓我們見識到了著名的9弦吉他,這一段狂歡式表演太精彩太珍貴，就憑這個表演，也絕對超值。
再來說說這DVD的由來，《The American Folk Blues Festival 》，其實並非是發生在美國的某個音樂節上，而是指20世紀60年代美國老一輩BLUES藝人飛躍大西洋，在大不列顛巡迴演出，這些演出，影響了不少後來的白人搖滾樂手。本DVD收錄的就是1963年至1969年期間，美國這些老黑藝人開拓歐洲市場（適逢美國BLUES復興運動）的精彩記錄。這些錄像是當年一家電視台演播廳裡錄製的，有些表演時，下面是有觀眾的，有些似乎沒有，而舞台布景特意呈現了美國街頭景象，酒吧、木屋等，很有戲劇效果，在今天看來，當年的製作絲毫不比今天遜色。
表演曲目：
1. Keep It To Yourself--Sonny Boy Williamson 1963
2. Get My Mojo Working--Muddy Waters 1963
3. Too Late To Cry--Lonnie Johnson 1963
4. Baby Please Don't Go--Big Joe Williams 1963
5. Bye Bye Bird--Sonny Boy Williamson 1964
6. Getting Out of Town--Sonny Boy Williamson 1964
7. Come Go with Me--Lightnin' Hopkins 1964
8. Lightnin's Blues--Lightnin' Hopkins 1964
9. Baby What You Want Me To Do--Sugar Pie DeSanto 1964
10.Rock Me Baby--Sugar Pie DeSanto 1964
11.Smokestack Lighting--Howlin' Wolf 1964
12.Don't Laugh At Me--Howlin' Wolf 1964
13.Oh Well, Oh Well--Big Joe Turner 1966
14.What'd I Say--Junior Wells 1966
Bonus Tracks:
1. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had--Muddy Waters 1964
2. Blow Wind Blow--Muddy Waters 1964
3. Didn't It Rain--Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1964
4. Trouble In Mind--Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1964
Reviews from Amazon by Perry Celestino
This series originally came out during the Year Of The Blues (2003) and provided us with glimpses of the real originals in this genre. The first three volumes gave us a lot of wonderful clips of Wolf, Sonny Boy, Memphis Slim, Otis Rush, Muddy, T-Bone, Big Mamma, Lonnie Johnson and so on. The German settings were a bit sterile and often staged to look like a Juke or with strange back drops of urban America. This set, from 1963-1966, is more like a concert. And it's great!
The concert format with an appreciative audience is really fantastic and well done for the time. We see Sonny Boy Williamson in three performances with the harp in his mouth sideways and playing with his NOSE! He is cool, no wonder he taught Little Walter (whose only recorded performance is in Vol. 3 of this series!).We also see Hubert Sumlin play with Sonny Boy on his second offering in this show. He turns in one of his most unusual solos in "Getting Out Of Town"- very chromatic and almost jazzy! We see Muddy Waters as a stand up singer (no guitar), on "Mojo" and in two bonus performances. He has Matt "Guitar" Murphy playing behind him on this one (who was playing with Memphis Slim at the time). There is a rare look at the great Lonnie Johnson, who plays by himself and shows us why he is one of the original inventors of the Urban Blues guitar style. Big Joe Williams gives us a close up view of his famous nine string guitar.
Lightnin' Hopkins plays his distinctive Texas-style acoustic blues, with a few tricks on the fretboard as well.Howlin' Wolf puts in, to me, his best ever filmed performance-it's worth the price of the whole thing!!! He does an update of "Smokestack Lightning" (without its famous riff) and "Don't Laugh At Me" in a "Killing Floor" groove, a song which had just been recorded. And we also see a young Hubert Sumlin playing with Wolf and also with Sugar Pie Desanto's female input (these shows always had at least one female performer).
Big Joe Turner does his usual big voiced thing and he has Otis Rush on lead guitar, it's a fantastic performance, one of the best insight's into Otis's guitar style we've seen. A bonus in this tune is that we see maybe the only existing footage of pianist Little Brother Montgomery who wrote "The First Time I met the Blues" and "I Can't Keep From Crying"-this is a rarity. Also scarce is film of drummer Fred Below, who gave the beat to Chess Records. Fred plays on this tune and in Junior Well's section.
Junior Wells is in his James Brown groove (he always did this! In Australia in 1991 when I saw him he led off with "I Feel Good"). He does Ray Charles'"What'D I Say" in a JB style, but we hear no harp! Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the first US Blues/Gospel acts to crack the UK, finishes the set with two of the bonus tracks. They are superb as is Muddy Waters' two bonus tracks staged and filmed at a railway station-very effective. His slide playing (standing up) is another extremely rare view of Muddy.
This is one of the most historic releases for urban blues yet available. The sound has been remixed by Eddie Kramer (of Jimi Hendrix fame) and Reelin' In The Years Productions have done it again! I hope they can find more of these rarities soon. We need the Fillmore Concerts that were on PBS in the late sixities. Get this for your Blues collection and check the price, what a bargain!
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