Live at Newport [Import]

Product Description:
This 17-song Collection Allows Fans of Baez to Sample her Star-making 1963, 1964, and 1965 Sets. (She'd First Appeared at the Event as a Teenager in 1959 as the Teenage Guest of Bob Gibson.) The Compilation Mixes More Traditional Songs Such as 'come all Ye Fair' and 'tender Maidens' with Grittier Bob Dylan Tunes. Baez Demonstrates How She Came to Define Folk Music for a Generation of Female Folksingers. Duets with Dylan, Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow, and the Lilly Brothers Provide Some Extra Texture to Complement Baez's Unique Soprano.

Live at Newport,Joan Baez,Vanguard,Folk

Average customer rating: What to hear Mahalia MOVE a crowd THIS is the one to have in your collection ONE OF COLUMBIA'S LEGACY HIGHLIGHTS--IN MY OPINION THE BEST REAL REISSUE It's all Good, even when it's so-so Awesome Poor Sound Quality Undercuts A Brilliant Performance

Live at Newport Mahalia Jackson Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Live Recordings | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | R&B | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | R&B General | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | R&B General | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Jazz | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 R&B | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns Amazing Grace Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns, Vol. 2 The World's Greatest Gospel Singer The Essential Mahalia Jackson ASIN: B00000293H Release Date: 1994-07-19

Tracks:

1. Introduction
2. An Evening Prayer
3. A City Called Heaven
4. I'm On My Way
5. It Don't Cost Very Much
6. Didn't It Rain
7. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
8. When The Saints Go Marching In
9. I'm Goin' To Live The Life I Sing About In My Song
10. Keep Your Hand On The Plow
11. The Lord's Prayer
12. Walk Over God's Heaven
13. Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho
14. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
15. His Eye Is On The Sparrow

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It was 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival, and the announcer said it all: "Ladies and gentlemen, it is Sunday, and it is time for the World's Greatest Gospel Singer, Miss Mahalia Jackson." And, with that all-too-appropriate introduction, Jackson broke into a stirring rendition of "An Evening Prayer" that set the tone for a classic performance. Over the course of her 45-minute set, she performed pop-tinged numbers ("Didn't It Rain"), a few trad tunes ("I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song"), and songs immersed with soul ("Keep Your Hand on the Plow"). On all of these numbers, Jackson's voice rang loud and clear, backed simply by piano and organ. Recorded at a time when her longtime fans were questioning her increasing fame and popularity, the "Queen of Gospel" proved shiningly, once again, that she still knew how to use her God-given gift of voice. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

What to hear Mahalia MOVE a crowd THIS is the one to have in your collection.......2006-08-25

This is Mahalia Jackson at the peak of her career, And of all places the Newport Jazz Festival. Known for Jazz & Blues...Listen to what Mahalia does simply singing Gospel!!! The crowd was MOVED! And you will be too!

ONE OF COLUMBIA'S LEGACY HIGHLIGHTS--IN MY OPINION THE BEST REAL REISSUE.......2006-01-04

Here we hear the great artist in an original-restaured recording of the 1958 NEWPORT FESTIVAL, being in good form and having a great athmosphare.
Fortunately COLUMBIA-LEGACY found the original tapes and went on to restaure the real tapes, giving up the company's old goal to mix the live-recordings with studio-cuts to commercialize it.
Thank God the Legacy producers gave us back a time-document so precious and unique and i pray for more such holy sounds.

It's all Good, even when it's so-so.......2005-11-07

The Queen of Gospel sings live in 1958 long before there was "MTV Unplugged". Most of the tracks are clear but a few clearly show what happens in a live concert when Ms. Jackson steps away from the microphone or claps. It's raw, powerful and un-choreographed and that's what makes this album a one of a kind. Need further proof, listen to the cheers of "more" and "Brava" at the end of tracks "Didn't It Rain" and "The Lord's Prayer". If you want a clear track of "His Eye Is On The Sparrow", sorry but you'll need to buy something else of Ms. Jackson.

Awesome.......2004-12-18

Man o Man! You just have to hear this! It starts out saying, Today is Sunday and we've got the greatest Gospel Singer in the world! WOW is right! Then at the end when you hear the crowd cheering her on, it's so moving it'll make you cry.

Poor Sound Quality Undercuts A Brilliant Performance.......2004-06-13

Born to a poor family in 1911 in New Orleans, Mahalia Jackson grew up singing in her father's church--and soaking up the blues and jazz for which that city is so famous. By the late 1920s she was in Chicago, where her distinctly jazz and blues-inflected singing style nearly got her thrown out of the Greater Salem Baptist Church. But Mahalia persevered, and in the early 1950s a series of radio and television broadcasts launched her first to national and then international acclaim. Some thirty years after her death in 1972, she is still considered the single greatest gospel singer America has ever produced.

I discovered Jackson in a serious way a year or so ago, and since then I have gone out of my way to purchase every one of her recordings that comes my way: if ever God gave breath to a gospel singer, it was to this woman, and her voice grabs you and rings you like a great bell. And after reading several commentaries on the brilliance of her 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, I was particularly eager to have this one.

Sad to say, the sound quality of this recording is very, very bad. Truth be said, you can actually hear the roars of the audience with greater clarity than you can hear Jackson--and given the power of her voice that is an astonishing thing. At times it sounds as if Jackson and the microphone are at opposite ends of the stage; at other times it sounds for all the world as if Jackson is singing inside a barrel. And more than anything, the recording leaves me with a tremendous frustration--for in its occasional moments of clarity it is very obvious that Jackson was giving a truly brilliant performance.

For all the frustration involved, I do not regret this purchase. If nothing else, it gives one a very clear idea of how Jackson interacted with her audience. But even so, this not a recording I would recommend to someone just beginning to explore the work of this unique and extraordinary artist. Let it be among the last purchases of her work you make.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

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Live at Newport Lightnin Hopkins Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00006IJ2J Release Date: 2002-09-17

Tracks:

1. Introduction By Michael Bloomfield
2. Where Can I Find My Baby? (previously unreleased)
3. Baby Please Don't Go
4. Mojo Hand (previously unreleased)
5. Trouble in Mind (previously unreleased)
6. The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite
7. Come On Baby
8. Cotton Patch Blues (previously unreleased version)
9. Instrumental (previously unreleased)
10. Jealous of My Wife (previously unreleased)
11. Every Day About This Time (Instrumental, previously unreleased)
12. Shake That Thing

Average customer rating: One of my Favorite Live Albums There are some gems here a relatively little-known Fitzgerald treasure Very nice overview of her career

Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall Ella Fitzgerald Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vintage Dance Bands | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Vocalists | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: At Newport Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Straight Ahead Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book Shortbus (Unrated Edition) ASIN: B000002AXF Release Date: 1995-07-18

Tracks:

1. Opening Announcement/Let's Get Together
2. Stompin' At The Savoy
3. A-Tisket A-Tasket
4. Indian Summer
5. Smooth Sailing
6. Eddie Barefield Original
7. Band Introductions/Let's Get Together
8. Announcement By George Wein
9. You Turned The Tables On Me
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
11. I've Got A Crush On You
12. Introduction Of Jazz At Carnegie All-Stars By George Wein
13. Somebody Loves Me
14. Medley: I Can't Get Started/The Young Man With The Horn/'Round Midnight
15. Stardust
16. Avalon

Tracks:

1. C Jam Blues
2. Introductions Of Ella Fitzgerald By George Wein & Carmen McRae
3. I've Gotta Be Me
4. Down In The Depths
5. Good Morning Heartache
6. What's Going On
7. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
8. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
9. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
10. Any Old Blues
11. Taking A Chance On Love
12. I'm In The Mood For Love
13. Lemon Drop
14. A-Tisket A-Tasket (Excerpt)
15. Some Of These Days
16. People
17. A-Tisket A-Tasket (Excerpt)

Customer Reviews:

One of my Favorite Live Albums.......2004-01-27

This is a wonderful live album. Recorded toward the end of Ella's career, by concert's end it is apparent that she has about lost her voice, but not the audience's adoration. The album showcases her in various settings: with the (obviously) reconstituted Chick Webb Orchestra, with Ellis Larkins, with Joe Pass and with Tommy Flanagan (of course); the album also has some nods to the Webb Orchestra, noteworthy for late-career blowing by "Lockjaw" Davis. Highlights: "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Good Morning Heartache" (an intended and most worthy tribute to Lady Day), "Miss Otis Regrets," the first encore of "Some of these Days," and intended set-ender of Ella doing what she does best, scatting through "Lemon Drop." I loved this when it came out on l.p., 30 years ago, but I love the c.d. even more because it better captures the ambience of this "Lioness in Winter" concert. Highly recommended.

There are some gems here.......2001-11-01

This a two-cd set, and despite the fact that the title makes you think it's all Ella, it's not. She sings a number or two at the beginning and then comes back for the second set of the evening. The rest of Disk 1 is a recreation of the Chick Webb band (where Ella got her start) and has some good moments. Disk 2 contains most of Ella's songs. Carmen MacRae gives Ella a warm introduction, and you can tell that they respected one another. There are some contemporary and pop songs that I enjoyed ("What's Going On?" by Marvin Gaye, for example) but that I can understand that a jazz purist would dislike. For me the reason to get this is her interpretation of "Good Morning Heartache." It's fabulous. I personally think it is as good as Billie's. It's much more musical than Billie's version, and yet Ella also brings out the ache and longing of the words. She is really passionate here, and the audience goes crazy at the end. I would have too, had I been there. Her performance is great. Ella sang this song in the studio in the early sixties, but this live version is by far the better. Her version of "Down in the Depths" here is quite good too. And she sings the Streisand standard "People" with an honesty, simplicity, and purity that would totally elude Barbra. If you love Ella, as I do, then I would tell you to buy this.

a relatively little-known Fitzgerald treasure.......2001-07-15

These live duets with Joe Pass and, even more wonderful, with Ellis Larkins are for me among the highlights of Ella's amazing career. The subtlety, imagination, and ease of these performances have stayed in my mind for over twenty years. Not everything on these discs is up to this standard, though the sleepy, sensual phrasing of INDIAN SUMMER, glowing with pleasure, is pretty amazing too.

Very nice overview of her career.......2000-02-14

This two-disk set catches Ella at the 1973 Newport Jazz Festival (in New York City) and offers a nice overview of her career. The event was billed as a tribute of sorts and fortunately the singer in very good voice right at the start of her Pablo years. The first disk features some big band sides by a reconstituted Chick Webb Orchestra and includes the inevitable "A-Tisket-A-Tasket." Ella reprises her duets with pianist Ellis Larkins on three tunes. The second disk is a typical Fitzgerald set with the Tommy Flanagan Quartet from this period of her career. Despite a couple of questionable tunes ("I Gotta Be Me" and "What's Going On"), Ella is in very good form throughout, especially on three duets with guitarist Joe Pass and when she goes away from the prepared playlist with "Any Old Blues." The highlight for jazz fans is the scat feature on "Lemon Drop." The adoring crowd welcomes Ella back for encores on "Some of These Days" and "People." The voice may wobble in spots, but the occasion and the obvious public affection for the First Lady of Song make the set an essential introduction to the later stage of her career.

Average customer rating: Overall a great recording

Phil Ochs Live At Newport Phil Ochs Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: There and Now: Live in Vancouver There But for Fortune Phil Ochs in Concert The Early Years The Broadside Tapes 1 ASIN: B000000EHB Release Date: 1996-04-02

Tracks:

1. Introduction: Peter Yarrow
2. Ballad Of Medgar Evers
3. Talking Birmingham Jam
4. Power & The Glory
5. Draft Dodger Rag
6. I Ain't Marching Anymore
7. Links On The Chain
8. Talking Vietnam Blues
9. Cross My Heart
10. Half A Century
11. Is There Anybody Here
12. The Party
13. Pleasures Of The Harbor

Customer Reviews:

Overall a great recording.......2001-09-11

This is the first recording I have by this artist and I think it is a great recording over all. He sings songs that I really enjoy like "Draft Dodger Rag," and "Pleasures of the harbor." The sound quality is so clear that it makes me feel as though I am actually attending the concert. The only thing that I would have against this recording is that there are too many songs that talk about murder and tragedy like "talking Birmingham Jam." I would recommend this recording to anyone who is not familiar with his music or those who enjoy him and want to try out other recordings.

Average customer rating: A golden voice matched with moving songs Excellent historical recordings

Live at Newport Joan Baez Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Contemporary Folk | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Revival | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Singer Songwriters | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Joan Baez/5 Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1 Joan Baez Farewell, Angelina Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 2 ASIN: B000000EH8 Release Date: 1996-09-17

Tracks:

1. Farewell, Angelina
2. Long Black Veil
3. Wild Mountain Thyme
4. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens
5. Lonesome Valley
6. Hush Little Baby
7. Te Ador/Te Manha
8. All My Trials
9. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
10. The Unquiet Grave
11. Oh, Freedom
12. Satisfied Mind
13. Fennario
14. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
15. Johnny Cuckoo
16. It Ain't Me Babe
17. With God On Our Side

Amazon.com

The voice that launched a thousand earnest young fare-thee-well folkies cut her teeth in the first half of the '60s at the Newport Folk Festivals. This 17-song collection allows fans of Baez to sample her star-making 1963, '64, and '65 sets. (She'd first appeared at the event as a teenager in 1959 as the teenage guest of Bob Gibson, though that milestone has apparently been lost to the ages.) Balancing comely traditionals such as "Come All Ye Fair" and "Tender Maidens" with grittier Bob Dylan tunes, Baez demonstrates how she came to define folk music for a generation of female folksingers. Duets with Dylan, Mary Travers, Peter Yarrow, and the Lilly Brothers provide some extra texture to compliment Baez's smooth-as-silk delivery. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

A golden voice matched with moving songs.......1999-10-25

When I popped this CD into the player for the first time, I simply fell back and said, "Wow." Joan Baez has a great voice and she delivers the songs on this CD with heartfelt emotion. It is a great CD. The only drawback is that on one or two cuts you can hear (if you listen very carefully) some crowd noise, otherwise the sound is outstanding. Her duet with Mary Travers on "Lonesome Valley" is moving. Her duets with Dylan are only OK because their singing styles don't compliment each other. I would recommend this CD if you like any acoustic stuff that the Cranberries have done. Why? Because Dolores O'Riordan's range is similar (but not quite as extensive) as Joan Baez's range. Highly recommended.

Excellent historical recordings.......1999-10-05

Fine material and performances. Liner notes could be better, though : it would be nice to know at which years' festival each of these recordings were made.

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Live at Newport McCoy Tyner Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Reaching Fourth Nights of Ballads and Blues Inception Passion Dance Sahara ASIN: B0000296VN Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

1. Newport Romp
2. My Funny Valentine
3. All Of You
4. Monk's Blues
5. Woody 'N' You

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The Best of the Blues: Live at Newport in New York Various Artists Manufacturer: Special Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chicago Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Blues General | Blues | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Blues General | Blues | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000008MUQ Release Date: 1992-03-30

Tracks:

1. Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton
2. Ball and Chain - Big Mama Thornton
3. Confessin' the Blues - Jay McShann
4. They Call Me Mr. 'Cleanhead' - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
5. Hold It Right There - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
6. Kidney Stew Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
7. That's Alright Now Mama - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
8. Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters
9. Where's My Woman Been - Muddy Waters
10. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
11. Outside Help - B.B. King

Average customer rating: Ian & Sylvia live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and 1965

Live at Newport Ian & Sylvia Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Movin' On: 1967-68 The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings Long Long Time The Beginning of The End Great Speckled Bird ASIN: B000000EHF Release Date: 1996-06-18

Tracks:

1. Introduction: Ed McCurdy
2. Oh Katy Dear
3. Un Canadien Errant
4. V'Le Le Bon Vent
5. The Greenwood Sidie (The Cruel Mother)
6. Royal Canal
7. C.C. Rider
8. Red Velvet
9. Song For Canada
10. Travelling Drummer
11. Someday Soon
12. Play One More
13. You Were On My Mind
14. Maude's Blues (Losing Is An Easy Game)
15. Four Strong Winds

Customer Reviews:

Ian & Sylvia live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and 1965.......2006-09-14

Like most of the "Live at Newport" series of albums released by Vanguard in the 1990s, the Ian & Sylvia version is not a single concert by the popular folk duo but a mix of tracks from appearances at the famous folk festival in 1963 and 1965 (they must have missed 1964 because that was the year they got married). You should be able to tell the difference between the two just from the way these tracks sound because some of noticeably better than others. But what matters here is that these fourteen tracks (follow a brief introduction by Ed McCurdy) contain live versions of many of their best-known songs. Ian plays guitar and Sylvia the autoharp, while Eric Hord plays lead acoustic guitar on the tracks from 1963 and Rick Turner does the job on the 1965 cuts.

Ian Tyson and Slyvia Fricker had first teamed up in the late 1950s in Toronto and had moved to the New York City folk scene at the start of the next decade where they were signed by Albert Grossman, who was better known as the manager of not only Bob Dyland and Peter, Paul, and Mary. Besides their two-part harmonies, Ian & Sylvia were known for their wide ranging repertoire of songs, which included not only folk and country songs (e.g., "Some Day Soon"), but blues (e.g., "Maude's Blues (Losing Is An Easy Game"), bluegrass, spirituals, gospel, and even French-Canadian songs (e.g., "Un Canadien Errant").

This album is divided in an interesting way, with the first six tracks being those from the public domain, including "Oh Katy Dear" and "C.C. Rider." Then the other eight tracks are all write by Tyson and/or Fricker. In that regard they save the best for the end of the album, which would be her song "You Were on My Mind," which most people will remember as being a #3 hit for We Five, and his elegant "Four Strong Winds," which was covered by the Searchers (although I tend to like the Chad Mitchell Trio's version a bit more). The irony is that each of those songs was their first composition, so it really was all down here from there on. You know those two songs are going to be just fine so it is a question of what else is going to get your attention on this album and I liked the lively "Traveling Drummer" as the best of the rest. "Live at Newport" is a pleasant listening experience and if it would not be your first choice as an Ian & Sylvia album, it is not a bad one to have if you have just one. The question might be whether you prefer live albums to studio albums.

Average customer rating: Boom Boom

Live at Newport John Lee Hooker Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Contemporary Blues | Live Albums | Blues | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Detroit Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Rock Guitarists | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Contemporary Blues | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Free Beer and Chicken It Serves You Right to Suffer That's Where It's At! Boogie Chillun The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues ASIN: B0000636A9 Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

1. Introduction by George Wein
2. Hobo Blues
3. Maudie
4. Introduction by John Lee Hooker
5. I Can't Quit You Baby
6. Stop Now Baby
7. Tupelo
8. Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad
9. Bus Station Blues
10. Introduction by John Lee Hooker
11. Let's Make It
12. Great Fire of Natchez
13. Boom Boom
14. You're Gonna Need Another Favor
15. Introduction by John Lee Hooker
16. Hobo Blues (alternate version)
17. Boom Boom (alternate version)

Amazon.com

Although propulsive classics such as "Boogie Chillen" and "Dimples" had already established John Lee Hooker among the most electrifying artists within the blues community, his performances at the Newport Folk Festival in 1960 and '63 found him catering to the biases of a broader, younger (and whiter) audience: folk-revival fans who preferred acoustic to electric and country blues to the modern urban strain. Thus, the Detroit-based Hooker did his best to approximate the styles he'd left behind in his native Mississippi a couple of decades earlier. The brooding narrative balladry of "Tupelo" and "Great Fire of Natchez" benefits from this stripped-down approach, and Hooker feels more at liberty to change tempos and keys throughout. But the unplugged versions of staples such as "Boom Boom" barely approach the sensual swagger of Hooker at his most musically potent. This 17-cut reissue includes three previously unreleased tracks, plus another appearing for the first time on CD. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews:

Boom Boom.......2007-05-12

John Lee Hooker is one of the pioneers of the blues together with BB King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others. His performance at Newport is the start of his career in Europe in the sixties. Because people did hear the LP. A few years later he came to Europe. He inspired Harry Muskee, the leader of the best bluesband of The Netherlands, Cuby and The Blizzards (C+B). Do you like to hear a white man (Harry) sing the blues like a black man (JL)? Buy the CD of C+B: Boom Boom Bang In The Spirit Of John Lee Hooker (2003) and the CD Groeten uit Grolloo (1967).

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The Folk Years Complete 9 CD Set Manufacturer: Time Life Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000BK60U8

Product Description

As seen on TV! 9 CD Set. The most complete collection of folk and folk-rock songs ever put together -- 132 classics! There was a time when folk music was heard all across America. From coffee houses to concert halls, a new generation of folk groups, singers and songwriters changed the sound of popular music forever. Time-Life Music proudly presents THE FOLK YEARS, an unforgettable era in music history! Includes the following 4 (2 disc) sets: (1) The Folk Years: Blowin' In the Wind: Kingston Trio: Where Have All The Flowers Gone * The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn! * The New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green * Judy Collins: Both Sides Now * The Lovin' Spoonful: Do You Believe In Magic. 30 in all! (2) The Folk Years: Yesterday's Gone: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley * The Beach Boys: Sloop John B * The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man * The Rooftop Singers: Walk Right In * Harry Belafonte: Banana Boat (Day-O) * Gordon Lightfoot: For Lovin' Me. 30 in all! (3) The Folk Years: Reason to Believe: The Rooftop Singers: Mama Don't Allow * Roger Miller: King Of The Road * The Singing Nun: Dominique * Judy Collins: In My Life * The New Christy Minstrels: Saturday Night * Burl Ives: Funny Way Of Laughing. 30 in all! (4) The Folk Years: Simple Song of Freedom: The Cyrkle: Red Rubber Ball * The New Christy Minstrels: Today * Jerry Jeff Walker: Mr. Bojangles * Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl * Scott McKenzie: San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair). 30 in all! Also includes the following single CD: Live at Newport: Live at Newport, including hits by The Rooftop Singers, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, The Kingston Trio, Ian and Sylvia, Donovan and Joan Baez -- 12 songs in all! As seen on TV!

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