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“Fats Possum Data has launched the Memphis ’69 documentary movie, capturing three days and two nights of the sweltering, interracial 1969 Memphis Nation Blues Competition, held inside weeks of a KKK rally on the identical location. Full track performances embody numerous iconic Blues Corridor of Famers comparable to Rufus Thomas & The Bar-Kays; slide guitar nice Booker “Bukka” White; Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachel; Texas’ Johnny Winter; Memphis’ personal Furry Lewis, Beale Avenue sweeper who opened for the Rolling Stones; and North Mississippi bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. There are not any speaking heads, simply the unfiltered pictures of the live performance and its environment from the time.” Additionally showing on this movie: John Fahey, Nathan Beauregard, Jo Ann Kelly, Son Thomas, Lum Guffin, Reverend Robert Wilkins & Household, Sid Selvidge, Moloch, John D. Loudermilk, Piano Crimson, Jefferson Avenue Jug Band with Robert Palmer and John Fahey, Insect Belief, and The Salem Harmonizers.
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