Best Of The Blues 1959-1968 - Classic Blues Music Album Collection for Vinyl Lovers & Music Enthusiasts | Perfect for Home Listening, Gifts & Retro Music Nights

Product Description The Newport Folk Festival was a HUGE, potentially career-making gig on the blues circuit, so a lot of bluesmen pulled out all the stops! Here are the best performances from 10 years of shows, featuring a Who's Who of blues legends and 11 unreleased tracks! Includes Boom Boom (unreleased!) John Lee Hooker; I Can't Be Satisfied Muddy Waters; Death Letter Blues Son House; Devil Got My Woman Skip James; Key to the Highway Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry; Clean Up at Home Sleepy John Estes; How Long Memphis Slim; Born in Chicago Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and more. Amazon.com 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