Memphis '69

Memphis '69 (2019)

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It’s the Summer of 1969. The temperature hovers around 105 degrees on a humid weekend in Memphis, Tennessee. It’s only been a year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But on this particular weekend, everyone in town, all races, creeds and colors have come out for the Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival. The lineup is the most ambitious in years, welcoming blues masters like Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and the 106 year-old Nathan Beauregard, coupled with more notable headliners like Rufus Thomas & The Bar-Kays, John Fahey and rocker Johnny Winter. One attendee that year was Gene Rosenthal, who brought along a couple of cameras, a small crew and left with 40,000 feet of color film that was left untouched for nearly 50 years….until now. ‘Memphis 69’ is a time capsule. If you’re a blues enthusiast, watching this film feels like you’ve opened up a treasure chest and discovered that you’ve hit the motherload.

Directors: Joe LaMattina, Gene Rosenthal.

Casts

	Furry Lewis as
	Fred McDowell as
	John Fahey as
	Rufus Thomas as
	Bukka White as
	Yank Rachell as
	Sleepy John Estes as
	Jo Ann Kelly as
	Backwards Sam Firk as
	Piano Red as
	John D. Loudermilk as
	Nathan Beauregard as
	Phillip Dale Durham as
	Robert Palmer Jr as
	Bill Barth as
	Jim Dickinson as
	Lum Guffin as
	Son Thomas as
	Rev. Robert Wilkins as
	Sid Selvidge as
	Lee Baker as
	Johnny Winter as

Crew