LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 3CDs packed into a digipack with an 8 page booklet
• Brilliant performances at Ben & Jerry’s Newport Folk Festival
• Originally broadcast on KGNU-FM
• Includes detailed liner notes and images
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality

Ben & Jerry’s Newport Folk Festival, July 29th & 30th 1989.

On July 29 and July 30, 1989, the recently revived Newport Folk Festival (then renamed the Ben & Jerry’s Newport Folk Festival) presented two days of top performers from the traditional folk, blues, singer-songwriter, and zydeco worlds. This three-disc set features nearly three hours of music from the weekend, broadcast on KGNU-FM, including selections by stars B.B. King, Emmylou Harris, John Lee Hooker, and Laura Nyro, as well as songs by folk legends Pete Seeger and Odetta.

Track Listing:

DISC ONE

• Radio Intro

John Hiatt:

• Memphis In The Meantime
• Talk
• Have A Little Faith In Me
• It’ll Come To You
• Thing Called Love
• Lipstick Sunset

Leon Redbone:

• Think Of Me Thinking Of You
• My Blue Heaven

Theo Bikel:

• Turquoise Rings

Cormack McCarthy:

• Milltown

Richard Julian:

• Gravedigger

Christine Lavin:

• Sensitive New Age Guys

Buckwheat Zydeco:

• Walking To New Orleans
• Hot Tamale Baby

DISC TWO

Northern Lights:

• Radio Intro > Make Me A City

Laura Nyro:

• The Wild World
• Mothers Of The Moon
• Emmie
• Stoned Soul Picnic
• Monkey Time > Eli’s Comin’ > Band Intros
• B.B. King:

• Talk
• Let The Good Times Roll
• Darlin’ You Know I Love You
• When It All Comes Down
• The Clancy Brothers:

• Talk
• The Jug Of Punch
• Robbie O’Connell:

• Kilkelly Ireland
• Talk About Odetta

Odetta:

• Rambler Gambler

DISC THREE

• John Prine:

• Radio Intro >Illegal Smile
• Talk
• Sam Stone
• The Way The World Goes ‘Round
• Paradise