Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Buddy Guy - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, 8-24-1968

Here's the fourth album I've found from the 1968 Philadelphia Folk Festival. It's a set by Buddy Guy.

If you look at the list of performers at this festival, this music seems out of place. Guy came to rock, with a full band, yet it was a folk festival. It must be one of the very few times songs like "I Got You (I Feel Good," originally by James Brown, were played at a folk festival! But hey, I'm not complaining. Since it seems most everything from these festivals were professionally recorded, this is one of the first live recording from Guy's long music career that has survived with excellent sound quality.

At least Guy started out in folky mode. The first three tracks here actually come from an afternoon performance at some kind of acoustic workshop. So the two songs there consisted of just Guy and an acoustic guitar. Later in his career, he performed many acoustic concerts, often with his frequently musical partner Junior Wells. But apparently this was very unusual for him at this point in his career.

The rest of the songs are from a concert that evening. That portion is 45 minutes long. In it, Guy and his band straddled the line between soul and blues. In addition to playing the James Brown song mentioned above, they also did a version of the soul classic "Knock on Wood."

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 talk (Buddy Guy)
02 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (Buddy Guy)
03 Rock Me Baby (Buddy Guy)
04 Instrumental (Buddy Guy)
05 talk (Buddy Guy)
06 Crazy about You Baby (Buddy Guy)
07 talk (Buddy Guy)
08 Sweet Sixteen (Buddy Guy)
09 talk (Buddy Guy)
10 I Got You [I Feel Good] (Buddy Guy)
11 Knock on Wood (Buddy Guy)
12 Call It Stormy Monday (Buddy Guy)
13 Mary Had a Little Lamb (Buddy Guy)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BY2T8J4n

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vdknhIANwJS3NmI/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It must have been taken during his afternoon acoustic set, since his evening performance took place in the dark. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

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