Brownie McGhee

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: Big Mama Thornton, Roosevelt Sykes, Buddy Guy, Dr. Isaiah Ross, Big Joe Turner, Skip James, Bukka White, Son House, Hound Dog Taylor and Little Walter, Koko Taylor and Little Walter, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Helen Humes, Earl Hooker, and Muddy Waters.

Director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code) joins musicians such as Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Tom Jones, performing and talking about the music of the early sixties British invasion that reintroduced the blues sound to America.

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Victory Spivey, T-Bone Walker ...

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, etc.

The story of seminal guitarist and singer Bert Jansch, from his early days in Edinburgh, Scotland, to becoming the acoustic guitarist that everyone wanted to be. As a teenager, in the early 1960's Bert sat at the feet of Brownie McGhee at the Howff Folk Club in Edinburgh mesmerised by 'Key to the Highway'. Armed with that raw American Blues influence and a bewildering technique, he fashioned sublime interpretations of traditional and blues music on the acoustic guitar. The result was music that had a profound influence on a generation of musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Neil Young, and it still inspires todays' generation of guitarists and singers.

1955 год, Нью-Йорк, к частному детективу Гарри Эйнджелу обращается некий Луис Сайфер с просьбой разыскать талантливого музыканта Джонни Фэйворита. В 1943 году мистер Сайфер заключил с Джонни один контракт, но Фэйворит, вернувшись с войны, попал в психиатрическую лечебницу, откуда впоследствии исчез… Следы его потерялись… Гарри начинает расследование, однако, чем дальше продвигается он в своих поисках, тем больше загадок встречается на его пути. А обратной дороги нет: каждый, у кого сыщик пытался выведать хоть какие-то сведения о пропавшем Джонни, после разговора с Эйнджелом погибал…

Узнав, что он приемный сын, Нэйвин бросает своих названых чернокожих родителей и отправляется за смыслом жизни в Сент-Луис. Поначалу большой город не принимает новичка, и Нэйвину упорно приходится доказывать, что он чего-то стоит. Долго мучиться не приходится, как говорится — дуракам везет, и на провинциального паренька нежданно-негаданно, оптом, сваливаются и богатство, и известность, и слава. Только вот, что делать со всем этим внезапным счастьем, придется поломать голову…

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.

A 16 minute short comprising 2 acts of a 1964 event where an innovative group of musicians performed on a real railroad track. The audience on one side of the tracks and the musicians on the station side.

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.