American Folk Blues Festival 1964

Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

German jazz publicist Joachim-Ernst Berendt first had the idea of bringing original African-American blues performers to Europe. Promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau brought this idea to reality.

By contacting Willie Dixon, an influential blues composer and bassist from Chicago, they were given access to the blues culture of the southern United States. The concerts featured some of the leading blues artists of the 1960s, such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson along with blues legends from an earlier period such as Sleepy John Estes, John Henry Barbee & Lightnin’ Hopkins.