Memphis '69
Wednesday, Aug 21, 2019 7:00 PM
72 mins.
Directed by Joe LaMattina
NR
2019
In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city’s famed Overton Park Band Shell, featuring ancient blues masters like Sleepy John Estes and Nathan Beauregard, Stax Records stalwarts the Bar-Kays and Rufus Thomas, and rockers like Johnny Winter and Moloch. Luminous, previously unseen color footage of the concert, unearthed after almost 50 years, is the foundation of this new film, MEMPHIS ’69.