1962 AFBF ensemble (2nd photo, l to r): Memphis Slim, T-Bone Walker, Shakey Jake, Willie Dixon, Helen Humes, Sonny Terry, John Lee Hooker, Brownie McGhee (drummer Armand "Jump" Jackson covered by Sonny Terry)
source of 1st photo: Blues Unlimited 142 (1982), p. 45; photographer: Heinz Wolf
source of 2nd photo: Blues Forum 4 (1981), p. 6; photographer: Heinz Wolf

Memphis Slim
- We're Gonna Rock
T-Bone Walker
- I Wanna See My Baby
- I'm In Love *
Sonny Terry
- I'm Crazy 'Bout You Baby
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Stewball
John Lee Hooker
- Let's Make It Baby

- Shake It Baby
- The Right Time
Shakey Jake
- Hey, Baby
- Love My Baby *
Brownie McGhee
- Crying At The Station
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Bye Bye Baby

* not on Excello 8029
instead:
John Lee Hooker
- Need Your Love So Bad

rec. October 18, 1962 in Hamburg, Germany



Philips 681555 was issued before start of the tour to introduce the participating artists

Big Bill Broonzy
- Trouble In Mind
Memphis Slim
- Beer Drinking Woman
- Hey Slim
Helen Humes
- Million Dollar Secret
- I'm Gonna Let Him Ride
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Sweet Lovin' Kind
Roosevelt Sykes
- Night Time Is The Right Time

Lightnin' Hopkins
- Automobile Blues
Shakey Jake
- Good Times
John Lee Hooker
- I Need Some Money
Odetta
- Prettiest Train
Willie Dixon
- Nerveous
Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams & Sonny Terry
- Wimmin From Coast To Coast

= Brunswick 9012 (mono)
= Brunswick 10912 (stereo)
= Intercord ST 658017

= Polydor 2482041 (NL)
= Polydor 46.397 (1963)
= Polydor SLPM-1172 (1964)

= Decca 7/4392
= Excello 8029
The Original American
Folk Blues Festival

= Polydor CD 825 502-2

L+R 42.017
= LR CD-2017

= disc 1 of Evidence 5 CD set
ECD 26200

tour schedule

 
1963 AFBF ensemble (arrival at Frankfurt a.M. airport): from top: three airline company employees, Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Bill Stepney, Sonny Boy Williamson; front row: Big Joe Williams, Len Kunstadt, Victoria Spivey, Willie Dixon; behind Willie Dixon: Matt 'Guitar' Murphy
source of photo on the left: www.flickr.com/photos/7863952@N04/462846538/
source of photo on the right: Juke Blues 20 (1990), p. 10 "(courtesy 1968 AFBF programme)"

Memphis Slim
- Wish Me Well
Big Joe Williams
- I Have No Friends
Willie Dixon
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
- Crazy For My Baby
Victoria Spivey
- Grant Spivey
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
- Matt's Guitar Boogie

Sonnyboy Williamson
- I Don't Know
- Sonny's Harmonica Boogie
Lonnie Johnson
- It's Too Late To Cry
Otis Spann
- Had My Fun
Muddy Waters
- Five Long Years
Memphis Slim et al.
- Bye, Bye, Blues

rec. October 13, 1963 in Bremen, Germany

+ Bill Stepney, dr

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
- FIve Long Years - Muddy Waters
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon
- Matt's Guitar Boogie - Matthew Murphy
- I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson

- I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Ain't It A Pity - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby, Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Everytime I Get The Drinking - Sunnyland Slim
- No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin
- Dust My Broom - Howlin Wolf

Exodus EX/EXS 302 gatefold

= Fontana 681510 TL (mono)
= Fontana 885403 ZY (stereo)
= Fontana 5204

= Fontana 858 100 FPY
= Polydor 2310 296 (F)

= Exodus EX/EXS 302 (US
1966) [Ewart Abner's label]

(=) Philips/Phonogram
SFL-7385 (Ger 1969)
American Folk Blues
Festival 63-64
"A documentation of the
authentic blues featuring
the best blues artists of
America"

notes by Willy Leiser



L+R 42.023 (Ger 1980)

= L+R CDLR 42023 (1998)

= discs 2 & 3 of
Evidence 5 CD set ECD 26200

1964 AFBF ensemble (The British Tour): Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sleepy John Estes, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hubert Sumlin
source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1992, p. 2; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir

American Folk Blues Festival 1964 (Fontana 885 411 MY = Fontana 885411 TY = L+R 42.024 = LR CD-2024)

Sonnyboy Williamson
- I'm Trying To Make London My Home
- Dissatisfied
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinkin'
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- Ain't It A Pity
- Baby Please Don't Go

Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon
- I'm A Tearing Little Daddy
John Henry Barbee
- Cotton Pickin' Blues
Hubert Sumlin / Sunnyland Slim
- No Title Boogie
Sugar Pie Desanto
- Slip In Mules
Howlin' Wolf
- Dust My Broom

bonus tracks on Evidence ECD 26200:
Sonny Boy Williamson
- I Got To Cut Out
Willie Dixon
- Weak Brain And Narrow Mind
- Big Legged Woman
Sleepy John Estes
- Your Best Friend's Gone
Sugar Pie DeSanto
- Baby What You Want Me To Do

rec. October 9th, 1964 at the Musikhalle, Hamburg; with Willie Dixon, b Clifton James, dr

American Folk Blues (Amiga 850 043 1964)
Hubert's "American" Blues ! (Scout Sc-4 1969)

- My Babe
- Hubert's Blues
- We Gonna Jump
- Too Late For Me To Pray
- I Love

- It´s You My Baby
- Love You, Woman
- Everytime I Get To Drinking
- When I Feel Better
- Blues Anytime

 
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Anytime! (L + R 42.004 1981)

- It's You Baby
- Everytime I Get To Drinking
- We Gonna Jump
- Too Late For Me To Pray
- Blues Anytime
- My Babe

- Love You, Woman
- I Love
- When I Feel Better
- Hubert's Blues
- Levee Camp Moan #
- Big Legged Woman #

# tracks not on Amiga and Scout LPs

 
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Anytime! (Evidence ECD 26052 1994)

- It's You Baby
- Love You, Woman
- Everytime I Get To Drinking
- When I Feel Better
- Blues Anytime
- I Love
- Levee Camp Moan
- My Babe
- Hubert's Blues
- We Gonna Jump
- Big Legged Woman
- Too Late For Me To Pray

 
Hubert Sumlin: Blues Classics (Bellaphon CD 1996)

- Love You, Woman
- When I Feel Better
- I Love
- Hubert's Blues
- Blues On Blues
- My Bay Is Gone
- Lonesome Blues
- Blues In My Hand
- Blues For Chester
- Jammin' The Blues
- Gamblin' Woman

rec. Nov. 1, 1964 at the Amiga-Studios in East-Berlin, Germany; Hubert Sumlin with Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon, Clifton James

Philips/Phonogram SFL-7385 track sequence:
- FIve Long Years - Muddy Waters
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon
- Matt's Guitar Boogie - Matthew Murphy
- I Don't Know - Sonny Boy Williamson

- I'm Trying To Make London My Home - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Ain't It A Pity - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby, Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Everytime I Get The Drinking - Sunnyland Slim
- No Title Boogie - Hubert Sumlin
- Dust My Broom - Howlin Wolf

Fontana 885 411 MY (1964)
= Fontana 885411 TY

L+R 42.024 (1980)

= LR CD-2024

= disc 4 of Evidence 5 CD set
ECD 26200

 

(=) Philips/Phonogram
SFL-7385 (Ger 1969)
American Folk Blues
Festival 63-64
"A documentation of the
authentic blues featuring
the best blues artists of
America"

notes by Karlheinz Drechsel



Amiga 850 043 (1964)
"American Folk Blues"

= Scout Sc-4 (1969)
"Hubert's 'American' Blues !"

(=) L + R 42.004 (1981)
"Blues Anytime !"

= L+R CDLR 72010 (1994)

= Evidence ECD 26052 (1994)

(=) Bellaphon CD (1996)
"Blues Classics"

tour schedule 16.10.     City Hall Newcastle

1965 AFBF ensemble: Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, J.B. Lenoir,
Doctor Ross, John Lee Hooker & Mississippi Fred McDowell
source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1992, p. 12; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir

Fred McDowell
- Highway 61
J.B. Lenoir
- Slow Down
Walter Horton
- Christine
Roosevelt Sykes
- Come On Back Home
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years
- The Big Question

Jimmy Lee Robinson
- Rosalie
John Lee Hooker
- King Of The World
- Della Mae
Buddy Guy
- First Time I Met The Blues
Big Mama Thornton
- Houn' Dog
Doctor Ross
- My Black Name Is Ringing

= disc 5 of Evidence 5 CD
set ECD 26200

tour schedule

Vol. 1: Amiga 855114

Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie
Otis Rush
- All Your Love
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It
Big Joe Turner
- Roll 'Em Pete

Junior Wells
- Sheckin' On My Baby [sic!]
- Vietnam Blues #
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Midnight Boogie #
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly

Vol. 2: Amiga 855126

Otis Rush
- It Takes Time #
Roosevelt Sykes
- Night Time Is The Right Time #
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault [actually "Sweet Little Angel"]
Little Brother Montgomery
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie #
Sleepy John Estes
- Yellow Jam Blues #

Junior Wells
- Over Yonders Walls #
Sippie Wallace
- Women Keep Your Mouth Shut #
Junior Wells
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise
Big Joe Turner
- Feeling Happy #

# not on Fontana 885 431 BY (= L+R 42.069 = LR CD-2069)

Fontana 885 431 BY

Roosevelt Sykes
- Running The Boogie
Otis Rush
- All Your Love
Little Brother Montgomery
- I Keep On Drinking
Sleepy John Estes
- You Shouldn't Do It
Otis Rush
- My Own Fault [actually "Sweet Little Angel"]

Junior Wells
- Checkin' On My Baby
- A Tribute To Sonny Boy Williamson
Sippie Wallace
- Suitcase Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Louise
Big Joe Turner
- Flip, Flop And Fly
- Roll 'Em Pete

all tracks rec. October 16, 1966 at Friedrichstadt-Palast, East-Berlin

notes by
Karlheinz Drechsel



Vol. 1 Amiga 855114
(DDR 1969)

= Amiga CD 82876-63060-2
(2004)

notes by
Karlheinz Drechsel



Vol. 2 Amiga 855126
(DDR 1969)

= Amiga CD 82876-63061-2
(2004)

Fontana 885 431 BY

Philips/Phonogram
SFL-7386 (1969)
American Folk Blues
Festival 65-66

L+R 42.069
= LR CD-2069

more info

tour schedule

Bukka White
- Aberdeen Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- The Sky Is Crying
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Rock Island Line
Son House
- Got A Letter This Morning
Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne
- You Be So Fine
Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle
Skip James
- Hard Luck Child
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- I'm Gonna Move Across The River
Koko Taylor
- What Kind Of Man Is This
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Walk On

links:
http://www.blues.co.nz/dig-this/documents/AFBF67JM.pdf

tour schedule

Participating artists:

Jimmy Reed
John Lee Hooker
T-Bone Walker
Big Joe Williams
Curtis Jones
Eddie Taylor
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
Jerome Arnold
J. C. Lewis

AFBF '68 obviously not recorded / not published

more info (radio program Søndag 68.10.20. from Tivolis Koncerthal, København, 68.10.10)
more info

tour schedule

1969 AFBF ensemble (l to r): Mac Thompson, Earl Hooker, Clifton Chenier, Juke Boy Bonner, Cleveland Chenier, Magic Sam, Carey Bell, 'Whistling' Alex Moore, John Jackson, Robert St. Judy
source: Blues Unlimited 130 (1978), p. 24; photographer: Chris Strachwitz

1969 AFBF ensemble (l to r) (standing): Earl Hooker, Cleveland Chenier, Magic Sam, Carey Bell, John Jackson, Robert St. Judy, Willy Leiser (headlocked, almost invisible); (kneeling): Juke Boy Bonner, Clifton Chenier, Mac Thompson, 'Whistling' Alex Moore
source: back cover of Arhoolie 1048 "Alex Moore in Europe"; photographer: Chris Strachwitz

Juke Boy Bonner
- Jumpin' With Juke Boy
Earl Hooker
- Going Up And Down
Carey Bell
- Rocking With Chromanica / I Feel Bad, Bad, Bad
Juke Boy Bonner
- Running Shoes
John Jackson
- Poor Boy
Clifton Chenier
- Zydeco Et Pas Sale
Earl Hooker
- Blue Shadows Fall
Magic Sam
- Easy Baby
- Looking Good
Whistling Alex Moore
- Across The Atlantic Ocean
John Jackson
- John Jackson Breakdown

rec. October 3rd, 1969 at Royal Albert Hall, London

Scout Sc-6

= CBS S 63912

= L+R 42.071

tour schedule

inner gatefold of Scout SC-7

Chicago Blues All Stars
- Introduction
Shakey Horton
- Hard Hearted Woman
- That Ain't It
Bukka White
- Maggie Lee
- World Boogie

Bukka White
- Old Lady
Champion Jack Dupree
- School Day *
- Going To Louisiana
- Blues Before Sunrise


Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Hootin' The Blues
- Back Water Blues
- Walk On
- When I Was Drinking

Lee Jackson
- Juanita
- Came Home This Morning *
Lafayette Leak [sic]
- After Hours
Willie Dixon
- Crazy For My Baby
- Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues

* not on CD-2021

rec. "Life" [sic] November 16th, 1970 at Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt-Hoechst, Germany

DLP
notes by Horst Lippmann



Scout Sc-7 (197?)

DLP
notes by Horst Lippmann







= L+R 42.021 (1980)

= L+R LR CD-2021 (1989)

tour schedule

Bukka White
- I'm Gettin' Ready
- World Boogie *
- Aberdeen Blues
Big Joe Williams
- My Baby Is Gone
- My Boots & Shoes
- Louise *
Robert Pete Williams
- Look Here Woman

Roosevelt Sykes
- Driving Wheel *
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Boot That Thing *
Memphis Slim
- Baby Please Come Home *
- Lonesome Traveller
- Boogin' And Bluesin'
Johnny Young, W.D.Kent, Billy Davenport
- Instrumental Boogie


Big Mama Thornton
- Tell Me Baby
- Ball In (!) Chain
T-Bone Walker
- Shake It Baby
- Goin' Back To Church

Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith
- Chicago Bound *
- Tricky Woman
Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith
- Winter Time Blues
Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Got My Mojo Workin'

* not on CD

rec. March 16, 1972 at Hilpert Theatre, Lünen, Germany, and October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany

DLP     notes by
Siegfried Schmidt-Joos





Atlantic 60036 (1973)
The 10th American Folk
Blues Festival Blues
Giants - Rock Creators

DLP



= L+R 42.018

(=) L+R CDLS-2018

L+R discography

tour schedule

Louisiana Red
- Pretty Woman
- I Wonder Who
- Lonesome Train
- Tribute To Mama Spivey
- Labour Blues
- Thirty Dirty Women *
Willie Mabon
- Mabon's Boogie
- I Don't Know
Washboard Doc, Lucky & Flash
- Shake, Rattle And Roll
- Flip, Flop And Fly
Eunice Davis
- Rock Little Daddy
Hubert Sumlin & Carey Bell
- Gamblin' Woman
- I Got A Little Thing They Call The Swing
Carey Bell
- One Day I Get Lucky
- Nineteen Years Old
- What My Mama Told Me
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I get To Drinking
- Sunnyland's New Orleans Boogie
Eddie Taylor
- Dust My Broom
- There'll Be A Day

* not on CD

rec. April 20/22th, and May 5/7th, 1980 in Saarbrücken, Mannheim, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf, Germany

L+R 42.013 (1980)

(=) LR CD-2013

(=) CDLS 42013 (1991)

tour schedule

1981 AFBF ensemble; Zürich, Switzerland, March 13, 1981
(l to r): Odie Payne, John Cephas, Sunnyland Slim, Margie Evans, Phil Wiggins, Bob Stroger, Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell, Louisiana Red, Hubert Sumlin
source: Blues Forum 3 (1981), p. 20; photographer: George Tanner

Bowling Green John & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Bowlin' Green Rag
- Bye Bye Baby
- Last Fair Deal
- Richmond Blues *
Sunnyland Slim
- One Room Country Shack

Sunnyland Slim
- Tin Pan Alley
- Dust My Broom
Louisiana Red + Hubert Sumlin
- Woodchopping Blues
Hubert Sumlin
- I Love
- Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky


Lurrie Bell
- I Need You So Bad
- Man And The Blues
Carey Bell
- Walking Through The Park *

Margie Evans
- 29 Ways
- Trouble Trouble
- Hound Dog
all participating artists
- Next Time I See You

* not on CD-2022

rec. March 10, 1981 at the Konzertaula, Kamen, Germany and March 17, 1981 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany

inner gatefold of L+R 42.022

notes by Claus Groh



L+R 42.022

= L+R 42.022
"Blaupunkt presents ..."

ad on back cover of
Blues Forum Nr. 2/1981

= LR CD-2022

tour schedule

James "Son" Thomas
- Beefsteak Blues
- Catfish Blues
Archie Edwards
- How Long Blues
- That Won't Do
- Take Me Back Baby
Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Big Boss Man

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Burn Your Bridges
- Worried Man Blues *
Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch
- Detroit, Michigan
- Tribute To Little Walter


Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins
- Running And Hiding
James "Son" Thomas
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Standing At The Crossroads *
- Stormy Moonday Blues
Carey Bell
- Goin' On Main Street

Carey Bell
- Blues Harp By Three
Margie Evans
- That Dirty Black Rat
- Sometimes I'll Be Gone
- Bye Bye Baby

* not on CD

rec. November 15, 1982 at Palmengarten, Frankfurt a. M., Germany and November 24, 1982 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany

inner gatefold of L+R 42.052

links:
http://www.imost.cz/bbblues/foto/afb82.php

DLP
notes by
Siegfried A. Christmann



L+R 42.052 (1983)

(=) L+R CD 42.052 (1991)

reissued on Bellaphon
CDLR 726024 (2002)
3-CD-Box
American Folk Blues
Festival 1982/1983/1985

notes by Horst Lippmann



L+R 42.053

L+R CD 42.053

tour schedule

1983 AFBF ensemble; Munich, Germany, Circus Krone, November 12, 1983
(l to r): Jimmy Rogers, Lonnie Pitchford, Lovie Lee, Queen Sylvia, Sparky Rucker, Louisiana Red, Charles 'Honey Boy' Otis; (front): Larry Johnson, Carey Bell
source: Blues Forum 12 (1983), p. 27; photographer: Norbert Hess

James "Sparky" Rucker
- Rock Me Baby
- Here Rattler Here *
- Crossroads
- Come On In My Kitchen *
Larry Johnson
- Midnight Hour
- That's The Wrong Woman
Louisiana Red
- Red's Tribute To Muddy Waters
- Boy From Black Bayou
- Gold Tail Bird *
- She Is Worse
Lonnie Pitchford
- One-String Boogie
- My Baby Walked Away
- C.C. Rider
- Why I Sing The Blues *
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
- When I Lay Down To Rest
- Who's Louisiana Red
- Reagan Is For The Rich Man
Lovie Lee & Band
- Flip, Flop, And Fly
- Mind To Ramble
- Iko-Iko
Queen Sylvia Embry & Friends
- I Love You
- Baby, What Do I Do
- New York Bound *

* not on CD

rec. October 30th, 1983, at the Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and November 11th, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg

links:
http://www.imost.cz/bbblues/foto/afb83.php

L+R 42.063

= L+R CDLS 42063 (1992)

L + R discography

tour schedule

James "Sparky" Rucker
- Walkin' Blues
Blind Joe Hill
- Fanny Mae
Cash McCall & Young Blues Thrillers
- I Can't Quit You Baby
James "Son" Thomas
- Smokey Mountain Blues
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson &Young Blues Thrillers
- Hold It Right There
Young Blues Thrillers
- From Boogie To Funk
- Gettin' Closer
- Young Blues Thrillers' Theme
Margie Evans, Cash McCall & Young Blues Thrillers
- Two lovers in one

rec. October 22, 1985, Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and October. 23, 1985, Capitol, Mannheim

links:
http://www.imost.cz/bbblues/foto/afb85.php

L+R 42.065

= L+R CDLR 42065 (1992)