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American Folk Blues Festival, Weisbaden 1963 [no label, 2CD]
Featuring Memphis Slim, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bill Stepney
Live at the Jazz House, Wiesbaden, Germany; November 1963. Good to fairly good soundboard.
From jazz-auction.com:
The tour was repeated in 1963, because the whole “AFBF thing” proved to be lucrative for Lippmann & Rau. They had successfully realized an innovative idea, and so they kept on presenting the “American Folk Blues Festival”. But along with the success also came difficulties. It was no longer possible to simply walk backstage and book the musicians. You had to go through the management. And the promoters were prepared for demand from smaller venues and organized a so-called “small tour” in 1963 that also had its own slimmer tour program booklet, with the title “Folk Blues USA”.
The smaller line-up of this tour segment included Memphis Slim (again), Sonny Boy Williamson, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, and Bill Stepney on drums. This well-chosen combination featuring musicians that were quite well acquainted with each others was sent across the country. And bigger stars such as Muddy Waters and Otis Spann, who were part of the concert version of the 1963 AFBF, probably wouldn’t have agreed to do additional club dates. This quartet probably stayed on after the regular tour had been completed, which would have been the second half of November. The precise date for the appearance at the Jazz House in Wiesbaden can unfortunately not be pinpointed.
The 1963 Jazz House gig was also a very delightful evening. Witnesses report that Sonny Boy Williamson could only be lured off stage with a bottle of whiskey held out to him by the hostess. And this time, sound recordings from the evening have also survived, albeit in bad quality, but with lots of atmosphere. Albert Butz remembers with a smile: “A friend of mine sat in the kitchen in front of the reel-to-reel tape recorder and desperately tried to adjust the recording levels.” Incidentally, the titles performed that evening have nothing in common with the song titles printed in the official program booklet – maybe somebody should have shown it to the musicians… It all goes to prove that this was quite an easy-going affair, almost like in a corner bar in Chicago. Sonny Boy Williamson, who contributed immensely to the success of the whole tour, was in high spirits and had the audience in the palm of his hands.
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Thanks to JerryRocks for sharing the tracks at Lossless Legs.
JerryRocks noted: “This is afaik the unedited recording mentioned above - complete with all “glitches” (lots of tape hiss, occasional clipping, breaks in the continuous recording). And although it might sound “lossy” - this is NOT from a lossy source.
Lineage:
SBD > ? > CD-R’s (unk gen) received in trade->EAC->wav->flac level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Tentative setlist (provided by trader, a few corrections by JerryRocks)
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Disc 1
Track 101. Intro 0:35 (981k)
Track 102. Memphis Slim and Matt “Guitar” Murphy - Shuffle 4:39 (7.8MB)
Track 103. Memphis Slim Announcement - Baby, Please Come Home (Gotta Satisfy My Baby) 5:17 (8.9MB)
Track 104. Memphis Slim - Low Down Dirty Shame 3:15 (5.5MB)
Track 105. Matt “Guitar” Murphy - Jamboree 4:31 (7.6MB)
Track 106. Talking/Memphis Slim - After Hours 7:41 (12.9MB)
Track 107. Memphis Slim - Baby Please Come Home (alt version) 3:57 (6.6MB)
Track 108. Memphis Slim - I Know A Girl Like You 5:05 (8.5MB)
Track 109. Announcement and Sonny Boy Williamson - Unreign Me/Loose Me Baby 9:51 (16.6MB)
Track 110. Sonny Boy Williamson - Talking/I Can’t Live Without You/That’s What I Want You To Do 6:32 (11.0MB)
Track 111. Sonny Boy Williamson - Tell Me What It’s All About/Your Funeral And My Trial 9:54 (16.6MB)
62 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Sonny Boy Williamson - Sad To Be Lonesome 1:46 (3.0MB)
Track 202. Sonny Boy Williamson - Talking/I Don’t Know 6:45 (11.4MB)
Track 203. Sonny Boy Williamson - From The Bottom 5:17 (8.9MB)
Track 204. Sonny Boy Williamson - Talking/Bye, Bye Bird 6:15 (10.5MB)
Track 205. Sonny Boy Williamson - Talking/I Don’t Care No More 4:31 (7.6MB)
Track 206. Sonny Boy Williamson - Nine Below Zero 4:24 (7.4MB)
Track 207. Sonny Boy Williamson - Eyesight To The Blind 5:19 (8.9MB)
Track 208. Sonny Boy Williamson - Talking/One Way Out 4:01 (6.8MB)
Track 209. Sonny Boy Williamson - Trust My Baby with unknown guitarist (Matt “Guitar” Murphy?) 7:23 (12.4MB)
Track 210. Sonny Boy Williamson - C-Jam Blues 4:00 (6.7MB)
Track 211. Sonny Boy Williamson - untitled 1:47 (3.0MB)
Track 212. Memphis Slim - untitled (incomplete) 6:30 (10.9MB)
58 mins
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