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FESTIVALS OF SUMMER
Summer is the time to enjoy music in the great outdoors. We’ll visit some festivals around the country, including the venerable National Folk Festival, which takes place in Bangor, Maine this August, and the Freedom Creek Festival, organized by bluesman Willie King in Aliceville, Alabama. Plus music from legendary gatherings like the Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals, the Monterey Pop Festival, and Montreaux. Grab a blanket and picnic basket and turn up the radio.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Lightning's Boogie Lightning Hopkins
Clifton Chenier/Mance Lipscomb/Lightning Hopkins: Live!, Arhoolie - Summertime (live at Woodstock) Janis Joplin
I Got Dem 'Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, Sony - You Gotta Move Cassandra Wilson
Belly of the Sun, Blue Note - Satisfaction Otis Redding
The Monterey International Pop Festival, Rhino - I Feel So Good Muddy Waters
At Newport 1960, MCA - Instrumental: Strollin' With Bones T-Bone Walker
Blues Masters: The Very Best Of T-Bone Walker, Rhino - SEGMENT: The Freedom Creek Festival with Willie King
Listen - This Little Light of Mine Freedom Singers
Gospel at Newport, Vanguard - I Got It The Chambers Brothers
Folk Music At Newport Part 1, Vanguard - Instrumental: Sugarfoot Rag Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder - Newport Waltz The Balfa Brothers
Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow - Hey, Tite Fille Clifton Chenier
The King of Zydeco Live at Montreux, Arhoolie - Maria Christiana Los Lobos
Good Morning Aztlan, Mammoth - (Title Unknown) Tito Puente
Live recording from American Roots July 4th Concert, - Festival Junction Duke Ellington
Ellington At Newport 1956 - Complete, Sony
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Lonesome Fiddle Blues Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, John Kahn & Peter Rowan
Old and In the Way: That High Lonesome Sound, Acoustic Disc - Mr. Tambourine Man Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Live 1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert, Sony - Forked Deer/Eighth of January Eck Robertson with the New Lost City Ramblers
Folk Music at Newport Part 1, Vanguard - The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde Tammy Wynette
D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Koch - SEGMENT: Bonnie & Clyde Festival
Listen - Frankie & Johnny Jimmy Anderson
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Vol.4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O - Samson & Delilah Rev. Gary Davis
Gospel at Newport, Vanguard - Instrumental: Pickin' The Devil's Eye Fiddlers 4
Fiddlers 4, Compass - SEGMENT: National Folk Festival in Bangor, ME with Sarah Gertrude Knot and Joe Wilson
Listen - Kokomo Blues Bonnie Raitt
Philadelphia Folk Festival 40th Anniversary, Sliced Bread - Hip Shakin' Mama Cookie Gabriel
The Sounds of New Orleans Vol.10, WWOZ - Instrumental: Cross Road Blues Marcus Roberts
Blues For The New Millennium, Columbia - Nutty Thelonious Monk
Miles Davis & Thelonious Monk Live at Newport 1958 &1963, Sony - End Bed: Line for Lyons Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker
Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chubby Jackson Big Band, Fantasy
