Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968 [Box set] [Live]

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968 [Box set] [Live]

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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

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968, Music, Various Artists, Acoustic Blues, Blues, Blues Collections, Blues Music, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Pop

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-1968 [Box set] [Live]

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