Live! At the 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival

In 1966, Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz staged the 2nd annual Berkeley Blues Festival. Among the featured acts were bluesmen Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb, and zydeco musician Clifton Chenier. The performances of the three musicians were broadcast live on a local Berkeley radio station—and did not disappoint listeners. Chenier was making his first appearance before a West Coast audience, and according to a review, he had the crowd of several hundred dancing. The liner notes provide the back story about Strachwitz’s involvement in the creation of the Berkeley Blues Festival and its subsequent evolution into the San Francisco Blues Festival. Notes also include two music reviews about the 1966 blues festival.

Track Listing

101	Stop Time (Live) Mance Lipscomb	01:58
102	I Ain't Got Nobody (Live) Mance Lipscomb	01:32
103	Downtown Blues (Live) Mance Lipscomb	03:23
104	Shake, Shake, Mama (Live) Mance Lipscomb	02:56
105	The Sinking of the Titanic (God Moves on the Water) (Live) Mance Lipscomb	03:28
106	Take Your Arms from around My Neck, Sugar Babe (Live) Mance Lipscomb	03:30
107	When the Saints Go Marching In (Live) Mance Lipscomb	01:41
108	Intro and Louisiana Shuffle (Live) Clifton Chenier	02:36
109	French Zydeco (Live) Clifton Chenier	03:01
110	Clifton’s after Hours (Live) Clifton Chenier	03:45
111	Scratch My Back (Live) Clifton Chenier	03:53
112	Everybody Calls Me Crazy (Live) Clifton Chenier	03:17
113	What'd I Say? (Live) Clifton Chenier	03:07
114	Old Country Waltz (Live) Clifton Chenier	02:05
115	Louisiana Rock (Live) Clifton Chenier	02:51
116	Clifton's Boogie Woogie (Live) Clifton Chenier	02:15
117	If You Don't Want Me (Live) Lightning Hopkins	03:49
118	I Feel So Good (Live) Lightning Hopkins	03:13
119	Last Night (Live) Lightning Hopkins	04:08
120	Goin' to Louisiana (Mojo Hand) (Live) Lightning Hopkins	03:48
121	Black Cadillac (Live) Lightning Hopkins	05:50
122	Short Haired Woman (Live) Lightning Hopkins	05:45
123	Lightning's Boogie (Live) Lightning Hopkins	02:39