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Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival

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Fat Possum Records will release the Memphis 69 documentary film, capturing three days and two nights of the sweltering, interracial 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival, held within weeks of a KKK rally at the same location.Full song performances include a number of iconic Blues Hall of Famers such as Rufus Thomas & The Bar-Kays; slide guitar great Booker Bukka White; Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachel; Texas Johnny Winter; Memphis own Furry Lewis, Beale Street sweeper who opened for the Rolling Stones; and North Mississippi bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. There are no talking heads, just the unfiltered shots of the concert and its surroundings from the time.

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