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

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

End Bed: What a Wonderful World Charlie Byrd
For Louis, Concord

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

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

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

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