Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival | Full Documentary
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- @fat_possum & No Sudden Movements present 'Memphis '69'. This concert documentary, shot over 3 days in June of 1969, celebrates an American art form that unites us all. Feat. Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Fred McDowell & so much more.
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03:14 Rufus Thomas with The Bar-Kays
08:01 Bukka White
09:58 Nathan Beauregard
12:01 Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell
14:00 Jo Ann Kelly & "Backwards" Sam Firk
17:20 Son Thomas
20:20 Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell
22:07 Lum Guffin
23:21 Rev. Robert Wilkins & Family
26:09 John Fahey
28:56 Sid Selvidge with Moloch
30:53 John D. Loudermilk
35:43 Furry Lewis
42:35 Bukka White
43:53 Piano Red
47:05 Jefferson Street Jug Band with John Fahey and Robert Palmer
50:26 Insect Trust
52:25 Moloch
56:22 Johnny Winter
01:02:40 The Salem Harmonizers
01:05:34 Mississippi Fred McDowell
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i don´t have words to describe...amazing!!!!!
My sentiments exactly.
We ooooo
My thoughts exactly!!!!
I know exactly what you mean such a mythic time in music one of the last kernels of music from the 1800s being played in a truly authentic form but being slightly one foot in the future that's always what I've admired about the expansion of blues from like the twenties and the 30s and how it just kept growing as we hit the 60s and even today there is never been an era in blues music where you can say that wasn't very good everything the blues does for the most part as a whole is incredibly authentic
yezzzzzzzzzz lawd, a-mazing is the only word we need
Son Thomas from about 17:50 to 19:00. Incredible!!! Even better than Elmore James or Hound Dog Taylor for Dust My Broom.
This doc is like a drug ... I keep coming back to get a fix. It's all great.
big middle finger to youtube for the invasive ads
It is as bad as regular TV. Disgusting, just makes sic how corrupt.
Hopefully some of the ad revenue finds its way back to the families of the musicians and song writers
Ad free TH-cam is included with a TH-cam Music subscription. Best $10 a month I spend. Worth every penny.
And as for "ad revenue reaching the survivors", this stuff is in the public domain. Advertising is how TH-cam pays the bills.
Get premium,cheapo.
Interrupted Billie Beene yesterday 4 different times with adds in a 42 minute show, I go to rumble when possible
You had me at Rufus Thomas...what a treat!
just an incredible group of blues legends on one stage,we will never see this type of talent ever again.
The band backing Rufus Thomas was the re-formed Bar-Kays. Most of the original band were killed with Otis Redding in December,1967. The trumpet player you see is Ben Cauley. He was the only survivor of the crash.
The bass player you see briefly is James Alexander, also an original member. Otis Redding's twin engine plane only carried a small number of people. That meant one member of the band had to fly commercial and they took turns.
The night the plane crashed was James Alexander's turn to fly commercial...
RIP Bar-Kays. You guys were great.
It was a great time in the music scene in memphis, with booker t, the barkays, the sons of willie mitchell, rufus, carla, eddie floyd, Bobby whitlock, and so many more. Glad I was there to enjoy it
Incredibly tight.
Thanks for this info!
Damn, Ben was on a Doc i watched not to long ago..Kid's of a prominent Memphis studio musician, then a owned a studio..Kid's run it now..He sat with alot of ole school Cat's..They also brought in some Rapper's, Snoop being one..A class of kid's learning music, an Lady back up singer's from the day..Something by the river i believe? And ya'll know you used "Walking the Dog" on their debut album don't you??
@@tonyedwards2064 I know what documentary you are talking about. The STAX museum in Memphis has a music school for inner-city kids. Local Memphis musicians donate their time. Ben was one of them. He passed away a few years ago.
What Ben experienced the night of the crash was heartbreaking. He found himself outside of the plane in the water. A seat cover was floating by that doubled as a floating device and he grabbed it. The plane was floating for a while and the lights inside were still on. Ben could see everyone trying to escape but there was nothing he could do. They were all looking out the windows at him as the plane sank. He then used the floating device and swam ashore. He's lucky he didn't freeze to death. It was December in Wisconsin.
For the rest of his life he had to live with the memory of his friends faces looking at him helplessly through those windows right before they died. Awful.
Son Thomas giving me those goosebumps. How lucky are we that we get to experience this 50+ years later.......
Me pasó lo mismo. Literalmente al escuchar como el slide recorrió el diapasón se me puso la piel de gallina
I was there! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks for sharing this. I see friends long gone now. ❤️
Did you see yourself in the vid
What a great chance to be back in '69 and able to see and hear James Son Thomas and Sleepy John Estes just sitting and drinking under a hard raining from Japan today !
cannot believe i have never heard this before ? Am 74 , still finding amazing music thanks to those that found and posted this GEM
Всем здравия!😊...я наверное в прошлой жизни жил в Америке, поскольку вся эта музыка мне , как родная...хотя родился в этой жизни я в Сибири в 1966 году.....обожаю ритм анд блюз... рок-н-ролл и *nativ music ".👍🙌
This is at least as interesting as the Woodstock Festival which took place a couple months later. Thank you for sharing it here.
I have wanted to see this for decades. Even though I live in Memphis area, I have never found a source for viewing it all. Really appreciate you finally making it available!
i am only five mins into watching this and i feel i want to say thank you for sharing this with us,,Rufus Thomas with The Bar-Kays performance was mesmerising,full of energy and positive vibes,,i was dancing around my bedroom and moving bits of me that aint moved in years,,and im not ashamed to tell you that it felt so good,lol
Yep. RT and the BKs have me all warmed up to enjoy the rest of the show too. Outstanding!
5 minutes in & I'm looking for my earbuds!
Same here. The dictionary fails to describe this film. I read a festival review in Downbeat at the time. It's a relief to know that 1969 Memphis had a hippie counterculture. Jim Dickinson: Total genius hipster.
Memphis had a folk music culture. But we weren’t about “Puff the Magic Dragon” and shit. We’d go to the coffee house and see the same ole prewar bluesmen you see here. The Bitter Lemon was the spot!
Thank you Fat Possum and everyone. This is Memphis!
Appreciate You 👍
I went for Johnny Winter but there were a ton of great acts. Good memories.
So glad I found this - this is great. I was listening to country blues back then starting as a young teenager - that's why I still like to play it! And I always preferred the Memphis Stax sound over Motown. Stax artists were the best.
Thanks, Fat Possum. Seen a lot of blues in my 67 years living around Chicago. Some took these guys for granted at the time. If you could bring them back you could fill a major stadium.
Of my friends that never made it you could fill a stadium. God Rest their souls.
Thanks Fat Possum. Thanks Gene "Adelphi" Rosenthal. Thanks to everyone who made this happen. Australia loves you all!
An amazing document of this time and place. Thanks for the spots an John Fahey and Johnny Winter. I met and talked to John Fahey In L.A. in 1969. A brilliant and really nice guy, and quite learned in music.
A tremendous piece of work, and wonderful to see such legendary blues maestros. Also seeing Jo Ann Kelly an absolute bonus, she was a sad loss to the blues.
One of the best concerts I've ever watched. Really good days back then
And then at 57 minutes in Johnny Winter blows everybody’s mind ! Love it !
So good picture quality and the colours so vivid.
Mississippi Fred McDowell, fantastic record of his performance. And Rufus Thomas with The Bar-Kays was a blast.
Absolute gold dust. The real McCoy, the like of which we won’t see again. A happy and respectful audience.
What a Mind Blower opening Act-Rufus and the Bar-Kay’s!!!! The Bar-Kay’s were the tightest Blues Fund Band on the Planet in 1969’--What a Treasure of The Roots of Blues/Gospel. So much Soul pours out of every act-Thanks from the Bottom of my Heart for putting this Amazing Treasure out here for posterity. -Please Keep it posted!!!!! I’ll be feasting on this Manna as long as it’s here❤️🇺🇸
Love me some Fat Possum! Thank You!!! This is the music and musicians I heard too many decades ago that keep me playing today. Music is life. At least it's life affirming. ;)
Thank You, Jeff Esworthy and WKSU for exposing my mind and soul to the music that keeps me going 40 years later! ;O My gratitude is eternal. This music has been the salvation to my soul and sanity through many trying times.
The last couple years being some of the most trying.
I just wanna say thank you to Fat Possum Records for turning me onto the blues. I've always hated it but your documentary of the Hill Country Blues turned me on. You also helped a lot of those old musicians to get into the spotlight
Come on - Furry Lewis, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sleepy John Estes, Nathan Beauregard, Jo Ann Kelly, Bukka White and MC Rufus Thomas - you had me at hello.....goodness. Thanks for the upload Fat Possum! I thought I knew country blues but there were a couple artists whose estates I'm going to have to make a little richer. Thank you all the way from South Korea.
Many thanks to Fat Possum for upload this gem. I'm grateful.
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Never felt so much warmth in my entire life.
Those old guitars just blow me away. the old electric Harmonies, tiesco, etc. they are hard to find and some of those are very finely made in japan guitars.
@@ciccioaporta3774 I know where there is an old Washburn Montgomery JS-6 Electric Guitar. Like 335 with the trap tail piece like new with case for 450; If it was stop tail I would buy it in heart beat. Wes Montgomery signature model
Phenomenal. And Nathan B. born during the Civil War.
Beyond ‘cool’. I heard about the Blues Festivals at The Overton Park Shell, These performers are the real deal, refreshingly corporate free, may I conclude? Memphis Tn. Thank you so much for posting.
Great line up! The umbrella held by pretty young ladies was also a great idea.😎💙
Wow…Rev Robert Wilkins…whole set? Absolutely brilliant and far too short! The whole thing is good but deffo my highlight.
I'd love to see that 8mm film footage the young woman is shooting as well. Great documentary--thank you Fat Possum!
When this was performed, i was only 13mos old growing up in South Memphis✌🏾👶🏾
Cheers from Brazil...this Channel and Alan Lomax Archives Channel are the best true USA music at TH-cam!
Johnny Winter’s solo was just abt everything. Bad man!
oh my god, what an absolute treasure this is.
14:00 The incredible Jo Ann Kelly, all the way from Streatham, South London. Incomparable talent who never gets mentioned when talk of 1960's female artists comes about. Fantastic performance.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know there was any footage of her. She always struck me as the real deal in country blues. What a treat.
Never saw her before this I was looking around going who is singing.that voice is fairly shocking sounds like Son House.I had to look her up after that sadly short lived life.
I grew up in Streatham and am a big sixties fan yet I had never heard of her until today.
@@GrahamCLester She was the real deal. Her 1969 album Jo Ann Kelly is a masterpiece.
Met her one time in a beer garden, I was stepping out with her sister Susan for a good while, Dave Kelly of the same name blues band is their Brother.
At the end of Johnny Winters song , for a brief moment you see his bass player. Tommy Shannon , who played with him at Woodstock. Later with S R V + Double Trouble .
Lord, thank you for this footage ! This whole doc is amazing, but the Jo Ann Kelly song gives me chills.
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Where does her voice come from???
@@tnrc75 I don't know, but her voice was amazing.
The Blues had a Baby and they called it ROCK & ROLL
I remember listening to blues specials on the radio. And youd often hear the fat possum label mentioned.
How bout Johnny winter playing that Mustang. ..wow..what a talent...worth the price of admission alone
54:00 Moloch's singer drummer is something else.
This is absolutely incredible. Thanks for allowing me to step into a time machine. So many incredible performances Nathan Beauregard, Furry Lewis and others - wow!
Wow, I was at that concert! Thanks for posting ! I wish that they had not brought in a big name like Johnny Winter with his high powered amplifiers and everything. It just changed the vibe of the whole place. Maybe there was a value in it in that his fans got exposed to some of the old blues masters whom they otherwise might not have ever seen.
Man what a scene with Fred McDowell, cool to see the dude there recording it too :)
This is excellent! So glad I happened upon it. Long live the Blues. Many thanks for posting.
Thank you Fat Possum Records from Memphis with love!! Looking forward to the DVD!!
Fred McDowell needs to have his own DVD issued from this performance, as he is Godly, as is Sleepy John, JW, et al.; this documentary is a dream come true and should get the same coverage as Summer of Soul, Fat Possum needs to go on a propaganda spree...
Agreed!
I would bet that what you saw is all the footage there is.
@@mysteryjesus All the footage that's fit to print, anyway.
Amen!
As a damned good guitarist; this is a treasure I've just discovered. The sound is beautiful for its age. Sounds great.
Politics can't save us. Neither can religion. But MUSIC? Yo...plug in the guitars, throw some ice over the beer, leave that BS in the alley with the trash and LET'S PARTY! I had an acquaintance who made it home from Vietnam in time to attend Woodstock, the week after being discharged from the army. Nobody called him a "babykiller" (although I know other vets who "busted some beaks" after being called that). But this guy? Dudes shared their "wacky terbacky" with him and several young women did their best to "heal" him of the horrors of war...
In any case, *thank you* for this video. Never knew there was such a thing and watching this video has made my day...and it's been a pretty good day!
can get a sense of what is going on in america then just watching this unbelievable footage; nathan has to be the greatest; hope to see you up there man with all the greats;
John Fahey is quite a remarkable part of this. Rufus Thomas and the Barkays, Bukka White? This is some dynamite footage of some super real deal artists.
From Silver Spring/Takoma Park. Wonderful. Montgomery Blair High School should honor him .
Fahey sounded like he was playing a band in a box
Great show. I especially was struck by the exceptional voice of Sid Selvidge. He needs to make records.
Was a pleasure to see some footage of John Fahey. Truly transcendental as always!
Fahey was my hero growing up. The most important unknown guitarist ever.
I like Fahey. But that was far from good.
@@2009framat I dont really like him that much, and that was horrible.
@@reedbrowning4390 I judge musicians (and other artists) usually looking at their best work. There were a lot of mediocre recordings of him released. So maybe you heard them and not the really good ones or you do not like acoustic instrumental guitar music. But if you enjoy the later style you surely listen to the wrong releases.
@@reedbrowning4390 Just checked out your channel.
Great - no words! Thank you for broadcasting that pearl.
The musicians throwing down. Salute to these talented legends
WOW !!! THIS IS AMAZING !! THANK YOU FOR SHARE !! Cheers from South América - Bolivia !!
Ole “Newgene” Wilkins of Moloch. My friend, Lenora, married him twice.
Haha.... you go Lenny!
Moloch?
She should be
Ashamed of herself
And so should he
an amazing historical record.....fantastic footage. We loved it.
Oh my only concerts be this good once again.
The Rev. Robert Wilkins - don't think I've seen him on film before (Newport?). His early blues material (before his religious conversion) marked him out as one of the greats in that genre , IMHO. :)
From the roots to the fruits.
Many thanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
a great historical document. Some people in the crowd I recognize which is pretty funny. It's been 50 years...wow.
God bless you 🙏
FABULOUS film, THANK YOU so much
Pure blues gold! Great to see all these concerts finally being released (thinking also about The Summer of Soul) along with the books about Robert Johnson.
Mr Thomas had the look of a banker, but when he starts strutting (walking that dogg) dude is rockin it diggin .....btw tks 4 bar kay story sad but a part of rock tragedy all through time...🇺🇸✌
Take it easy on them Booker! What a master craftsman.
Thank you for sharing this!
This is staggering. Thanks for putting this up. Can't tell you how much I enjoyed this. Rufus right from the beginning, and the BKs throwing down without breaking a sweat.
Nice to see Johnny Winter.
really Great Fantastic movie The Performances are a blessing from heaven ..
Thank you
Thank you. Wonderful.
Furry Lewis’s Let Me Call You Sweetheart had me melting, absolutely fantastic!!
What a treasure! Thank God for TH-cam (despite everything)
You rock man thanks for uploading
What a treat!!! So precious, so authentic! Love the footage and the image quality/format of this period👌 Wasn't born still, it's maybe why I appreciate it even more. Fat Possum, I love you guys!!!💙🖤🤍❤ A french fan here who used to live in Memphis in the 2010's..... I had the chance to jam many times with among great, fine, humble, sweet blues/soul/R&B musicians and singers, this gentleman, Ben Cauley, Bar-Kays trumpet player we can see with Rufus Thomas on this 1:12:40 jewel. Ben is gone now but he let to the community a beautiful spirit with and for the music and what it means...love l o v e looooove 😁 like how I feel it here🙏
This was my first full month on the planet.... I was born May 24th, 1969.
Thankyou for uploading this. Some of the best blues footage I have ever seen.
Absolutely priceless! Thanks for uploading this gem.
Really great clip, and it looks like there were some pros putting the technological side together. Check 8:30. I liked John D Loudermilk a lot. Furry tapping way before anybody. And that second tune Furry did was gorgeous. I saw Piano Red about 20 years later in a stone mansion. Those boys from Moloch sure knew how to spot a good singer - their own drummer, and earlier some other guy were great. Lum Giffin playing slide w/ his blade.
Oh man, I've never seen this before. So good. I was stoked when I heard them announce John Fahey.
Holy sh*t! Early Johnny Winter AND a live version of 'Memory Pain'!!!
thanks man, i was looking for what the song was called just now haha, awesome stuff
@@sethman75 happy to oblige!
I never thought that Insect Trust's and Moloch's archival footage ever existed!!!
Came across this I was hypothesized. at this unreal couldn't stop watching glad I watched the whole video. Till 3 :am.it was filmed beautiful and sound sad all performers are gone. but this. video isn't. luv the ending song LET The Sunshine in ° so true. *
1st half is great, and features many of the best original acoustic blues players who were lucky enough to be alive & playing in the late 1960s. Some of the white acts were kinda "open mic," but then there's Johnny Winter-- in 1969, so the cutting edge of electric blues.
A very good book on the 1960's Memphis music scene written by Robert Johnson---"It Came from Memphis", discussed the festival in detail.
That would be Robert Gordon - his book Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion is another fine record of the period.
I agree. I read it before my wife and I went to Memphis a couple years ago, and it gave me such an appreciation for the music. The music you can hear at the Rock and Soul museum, the Stax/Volt studio is worth the trip alone. Not to mention going to Sun Studios and standing RIGHT THERE....
Johnson was dead decades before this.
@@daylesuess552 Robert Gordon is the author's name.
This was a real treat! Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was only able to attend on Sunday. Saw Mr. McDowell, and the Sunday night program at the Mid South Colosseum. I always wished I could get a glimpse of what I missed, so ultimate thanks to all involved in getting this film out. Hopefully, all the recorded performances will be made available soon!
Wow.. your name is same as mine... peace bro from Mississippi
A scene from Memphis in 1969.Thank you to the people who recorded this.
Thanks for the release still great stuff though decades after their prime.
Grew up a a a kid visiting Overton Park many times:) Great memories. Thanks:)
we used to see piano red around atlanta 1970s underground atlanta later own all the rock clubs ,opened for keith richards and new barbarians 1979 ,red opened for peter tosh during his rolling stones years great blues doc
This is beyond incredible. Thank you for sharing.