Newport Folk Festival, Festival Field, Newport, RI, 7-25-1968 to 7-28-1968, Part 10 - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

This is the last of ten albums featuring the biggest names from the 1968 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set from the blues duo Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.

Guy and Wells were successful solo artists, but they also had a long and successful partnership, sometimes working as a duo from the 1960s until Wells died in 1998. I believe they started performing together around 1966, but they wouldn't release their first album as a duo until 1972. I can't say this with total certainty, but I think this is their best and only concert recording as a duo from the 1960s.

Guy and Wells did different types of blues together. They've even done some acoustic albums which I particularly like. But at this phase of their career, they mostly played a more rocking and lively form of blues, sometimes even veering into soul music. This was helped by the fact they were assisted by a horn section. You can see that here by the fact that they finished with a cover of "I Got You (I Feel Good)," the soul classic by James Brown.

This concert is 39 minutes long.

129 talk by George Wein (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
130 Intro [Instrumental] (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
131 One Room Country Shack (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
132 Checkin' on My Baby (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
133 talk (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
134 Hoodoo Man Blues (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
135 Messin' with the Kid (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
136 talk (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
137 Help Me (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
138 talk (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)
139 Call It Stormy Monday - I Got You [I Feel Good] (Buddy Guy & Junior Wells)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17205342/VA-NEWPRTFLKFESTIVL196810BuddyGy_JniorWlls.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Cg8bXPax

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

UPDATE: On October 5, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.