Cause and Effect presents:
Hey Listeners,
So glad to be here hosting Cause and Effect this afternoon. Today we’re going to dive into George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz Festival – to name a few. And while each of those festivals in significant on its own, George’s real legacy is a father / godfather to the American music festival.
No doubt you’ve been to one. Maybe one of the three mentioned above. Maybe one of the ones in our home state of Virginia – Locken or Floyd Fest. Or perhaps you’ve ventured further afield to Merle Fest, Lollapoolooza, Coachella, or the Austin City Music Festival. Surely you’ve been to Richmond’s own Folk Festival. Well if you have and you had a great time, you can thank George Wein for creating the model for big music festival weekends.
Maybe just as important as creating music festival, the festivals themselves breathed new life into careers and often exposed artists for the first time to a wider audience. So today we’ll take a look at some blues and bluegrass artists that got a jolt in their careers from playing festivals. We’ll hear the track that changed the trajectory or pop and folk music when Dylan went electric. We’ll hear the tune that revived Duke Ellington’s career and put the Newport Jazz Festival on the map. We’ll hear several tracks from a brand new Smithsonian Folkways 5-CD release commemorating 50 years of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. We’ll hear live tracks from other great music festivals including one from the brand new Richmond Folk Festival compilation. So keep it tuned here.
The Haberdasher
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue”
from Ellington at Newport: The Original Album
Columbia/Legacy - 1956
Big Band of Brothers, “It’s Not My Cross to Bear (feat. Ruthie Foster)”
from A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band
New West Records - 2019
Bob Dylan, “Maggie's Farm”
from The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (A Martin Scorsese Picture)
Columbia - 2005
Muddy Waters, “Nineteen Years Old (Live)”
from Live Blues From the Newport Folk Festival (Live)
Welk Music Group - X5 Music Group - 2013
Mac Wiseman, “Four Walls Around Me”
Multicultural Media - 2011
John Greenway, “Talking Dust Bowl”
from The Folk Music of the Newport Folk Festival, Vol. 2 (1959-1960)
Folkways Records - 2004
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It”
from Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2019
Lúnasa, “Ryestraw (Live At the Richmond Folk Festival, 2010)”
from All Together Now: 15 Years of the Richmond Folk Festival
Spacebomb
Henry Butler, “Hey Now, Baby”
from Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage FestivalJazz
Smithsonian Folkways
David Bromberg Quartet, “Testify About My Love”
from Festivallink Presents the David Bromber Quartet at MerleFest
Festivalink
George Wein, “Back Home Again in Indiana”
from Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage FestivalJazz
Smithsonian Folkways
Haberdasher Cause and Effect October 26th, 2019
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