American Folk Blues Festival ’64 (1982)

01. Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Trying to Make London My Home 
02. Sonny Boy Williamson - Dissatisfied 
03. Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get to Drinkin' 
04. Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't It a Pity 
05. Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go 
06. Sleepy John Estes- I'm a Tearing Little Daddy 
07. John Henry Barbee - I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton 
08. Hubert Sumlin - No Title Boogie 
09. Sugar Pie DeSanto - Slip-In Mules 
10. Howlin' Wolf - Dust My Broom 
11. Sonny Boy Williamson - I Got to Cut Out
12. Willie Dixon - Weak Brain and Narrow Mind 
13. Willie Dixon - Big Legged Woman 
14. Sleepy John Estes - Your Best Friend's Gone
15. Sugar Pie DeSanto - Baby, What You Want Me to Do

John Henry Barbee - Vocals, Guitar
Sugar Pie DeSanto - Vocals
Willie Dixon - Vocals, Bass
Sleepy John Estes – Guitar,Vocals
Lightnin' Hopkins - Vocals, Guitar
Howlin' Wolf - Vocals, Guitar
Hammie Nixon 	- Harmonica [Blues Harp], Other [Jug]
Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
Sunnyland Slim 	- Vocals, Piano
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Harmonica [Blues Harp], Vocals
Clifton James – Drums

Recorded on 9th October 1964 at the Musikhalle in Hamburg, this shows, along with the Beatles playing just down the road at the Star Club a couple of years previously and the huge number of top Blues and Rock and Roll musicians who played there, just what a musical dynamo Hamburg was in the early 60s.

On this album, a house band, which consists of a collection of musical luminaries in their own right, back some of the most amazing singers in the history of the Blues.

The band which consists of Hubert Sumlin (guitar), Willie Dixon (bass), Clifton James (drums) and Sunnyland Slim (piano) ably support Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sleepy John Estes, John Henry Barbee, Sugar Pie De Santo and Howlin' Wolf with Sunnyland Slim taking vocal duties on "Every Time I Get Drinkin'" as well. Side 2 opens with Sleepy John Estes "I'm A Tearing Little Daddy" where he is accompanied by Hammie Nixon on blues harp and jug, harking right back to the days when a jug or large whiskey flagon was blown for the bass.

John Henry Barbee is self accompanied on guitar without the band, in a rendition of "Cotton Picking Blues" which is a stand out track on the album. Another stand out is the band playing Sumlin's "No Title Boogie" in an instrumental. Lighnin' Hopkins is at his best on this album with his rendition of "Baby Please Don't Go" being one of the finest I have heard.

A fantastic album and one which I feel every Blues collection should have, as it so epitomises Folk Blues. ---Paul Stewart, express.co.uk

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