MEMPHIS '69: THE 1969 MEMPHIS COUNTRY BLUES FESTIVAL (1969 CONCERT)

In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city’s famed Overton Park Band Shell.
Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred McDowell, the fest had been launched in 1966 by a group of Bluff City blues fans and counter culturalists.
The ‘69 edition – which doubled as a celebration of Memphis’ sesquicentennial -- promised the event’s biggest and most ambitious lineup, one that included ancient blues masters like Sleepy John Estes and Nathan Beauregard, as well as Stax Records stalwarts the Bar-Kays and Rufus Thomas, and rockers like Johnny Winter and Moloch.

Also on hand was a camera crew documenting the three days and two nights of this epochal concert event held within weeks of a KKK rally at the same location.
There are no talking heads, just the unfiltered shots of the concert and its surroundings from the time.

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1. Rufus Thomas with The Bar-Kays
2. Bukka White
3. Nathan Beauregard
4. Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell
5. Jo Ann Kelly & "Backwards" Sam Firk
6. Son Thomas
7. Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell
8. Lum Guffin
9. Rev. Robert Wilkins & Family
10. John Fahey
11. Sid Selvidge with Moloch
12. John D. Loudermilk
13. Furry Lewis
14. Bukka White
15. Piano Red
16. Jefferson Street Jug Band with John Fahey and Robert Palmer
17. Insect Trust
18. Moloch
19. Johnny Winter
20. The Salem Harmonizers
21. Mississippi Fred McDowell