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Blues and Gospel Train - 1964 - Muddy Waters, Rosetta Tharpe, 
Sonny & Brownie, Cousin Joe Pleasants

Muddy Waters and Friends on the Blues and Gospel Train, 1964
in Music, Television | January 7th, 2013 2 Comments



One of the most unique and intimate concerts from the British blues revival of the 1960s was the “Blues and Gospel Train,” filmed in a suburb of Manchester, England. In 2011 we posted an excerpt featuring Muddy Waters singing “You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had.” Today we’re pleased to bring the whole show–or at least most of it.

The “Blues and Gospel Train” was staged on May 7, 1964 by Granada TV. Fans who were lucky enough to get tickets–some 200 of them–were instructed to meet at Manchester’s Central Station at 7:30 that evening for a short train ride to the abandoned Wilbraham Road Station in Whalley Range.

When the train pulled in at Wilbraham Road, the audience poured out and found seats on the platform, making their way past Muddy Waters, who was singing “Blow Wind Blow.” The opposite platform, decorated to look like an old railway station in the American South, served as a stage for a lineup of now-legendary blues artists including Waters, Sister Rosetta Sharpe, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Cousin Joe, Otis Spann and Reverand Gary Davis.

dit is een avi formaat. als je van oude blues houd,
moet je zeer zeker even kijken. ik vind het heel mooi.
lekker ouderwetse blues zoals hij hoort te zijn.

veel kijk en luister plezier ermee.