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The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1965, Vol. 1 [DVD] [2003] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1965, Vol. 1 [DVD] [2003] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actors: Various Artists
  • Format: Colour, Compilation, DVD-Video, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Hip-O
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Aug 2003
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B0000AYL2M
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 124,009 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Golden blues, 5 Mar 2006
By Peter Reeve (Thousand Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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We have heard their recordings and seen their photographs but any live performances we may have attended or video recordings we may have seen were mostly of them very late in their career, past their best. So this discovery of early sixties recordings of Blues greats is something of a treasure trove.

There is a distinctly amateurish air to these recordings. The introductions are very awkward and wooden, with the performers introducing one another with much line-fluffing and a remarkable amount of stage fright. You may be startled to hear the second act introduced as "Sunny Terrace and Bonny McGhee" but not to worry, you'll be delighted by the subsequent performance by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. And the clips are strung together in a disjointed fashion, rather than being a properly edited sequence. One clip starts with a presenter leaving the stage and we will never know what it was he might have said. Others begin with the audience applauding the previous, unseen performance.

None of that matters when the actual performances begin. John Lee Hooker gives a truly visceral performance and Otis Spann is on top form. But all the performers are worth seeing.

Modern viewers may be disconcerted by the totally white, unfailingly polite audience, including ladies in fur stoles. But that is part of the period charm of these recordings, for that's how it was in the early sixties. Don't be misled. We may have dressed formally and behaved with decorum but that didn't mean we were not moved. We were. The Blues resonated with us and became a vital part of the European music scene. This influence began before the time of these festivals. The biggest British music star of the fifties, Lonnie Donegan, took his first name from Lonnie Johnson (who appears on this DVD). The Rolling Stones, The Animals and John Mayall are obvious examples of a continuing influence on the next generation of musicians. And in continental Europe today, especially in Amsterdam, you will hear more blues being played live than in most parts of the US.

The sound quality on this DVD is fine. It will serve as a great introduction to The Blues and is essential for those who are already fans.

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