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  2. Newport Folk Festival 1966
  3. Dock Boggs: Country Blues (1966)

Date recorded: 1966
Contributor(s): Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Boggs, Dock
Description: Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, Newport, R.I.
Subject(s):
Genre: blues
Setting: Newport Folk Festival
Location: Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States
Archive ID: a54YpZIdFS0
Transcript:
Belongs to: Newport Folk Festival 1966
About the session: In 1966, Alan Lomax arranged for a crew to film and record portions of that year’s Newport Folk Festival, some aspects of which he had programmed. These included a "blues cutting" (featuring Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White); a "gospel battle" (with the Dixie Hummingbirds, Swan Silvertones, and Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes); and a fiddle contest (including Clark Kessinger, Angus Chisholm, and the Coon Creek Girls). In addition to impromptu recordings of some festival participants—such as Canray Fontenot and Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, Joe Heaney, Dock Boggs, Bessie Jones, and Janie Hunter—Lomax also arranged for the filming of performances by House, White, James, Howlin' Wolf, and Rev. Pearly Brown in an ersatz juke joint he designed on the premises. The clips that appear here are a representative sample of the larger collection, which, although it has been digitized in its entirely by the Library of Congress, has not had picture and audio synched. When that is accomplished, and smaller resolution clips can be output from the raw footage, it will be made available.
Rights: The rights to the audio, photographic, and video materials contained within the Lomax Digital Archive are administered by various publishers, record labels, collectors, estates, and other rights holders. Any uses, commercial or not, must be cleared by the specific rights holders. For questions regarding the use of any material on the LDA, please contact Permissions.
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More from the session

Dock Boggs: Pretty Polly (1966)
Canray Fontenot & Bois Sec Ardoin: Bonsoir Moreau (1966)
Bukka White with Howlin' Wolf: World Boogie (1966)

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