Summer of Blues: Lost 1969 Blues Festival Doc Surfaces

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Check out a clip from the recently completed doc 'Memphis '69,' which chronicles the last Memphis Country Blues Festival.

Gene Rosenthal, head of the indie blues label Adelphi, filmed roughly 17 hours of performances, then blew his entire budget processing the film. Decades later, he mentioned it to Bruce Watson and Matthew Johnson, founders of the blues label Fat Possum, and with their help, we’re finally getting to see a much bigger chunk of that festival than ever before.

Following a performance by a gospel group, Mississippi Fred McDowell, a hero to Bonnie Raitt, starts his performance by cracking, “I’m a Christian, too, but I still play the blues, you understand.” Also spotted in the crowd and onstage are producer and pianist Jim Dickinson, rock critic Robert Palmer , and singer-songwriter John D. Loudermilk, who plays a solo acoustic “Tobacco Road.

 

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