• 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.
TRACKS
Disc One
1. Radio Intro
John Hiatt
2. Memphis In The Meantime
3. Talk
4. Have A Little Faith In Me
5. It'll Come To You
6. Thing Called Love
7. Lipstick Sunset
Leon Redbone
8. Think Of Me Thinking Of You
9. My Blue Heaven
Theo Bikel
10. Turquoise Rings
Cormack McCarthy
11. Milltown
Richard Julian
12. Gravedigger
Christine Lavin
13. Sensitive New Age Guys
Buckwheat Zydeco
14. Walking To New Orleans
15. Hot Tamale Baby
Disc Two
Northern Lights
1. Radio Intro - Make Me A City
Laura Nyro
2. The Wild World
3. Mothers Of The Moon
4. Emmie
5. Stoned Soul Picnic
6. Monkey Time - Eli's Comin' - Band Intros
B.B. King
7. Talk
8. Let The Good Times Roll
9. Darlin' You Know I Love You
10. When It All Comes Down
The Clancy Brothers
11. Talk
12. The Jug Of Punch
Robbie O'Connell
13. Kilkelly Ireland
14. Talk About Odetta
Odetta
15. Rambler Gambler
Disc Three
John Prine
1. Radio Intro - Illegal Smile
2. Talk
3. Sam Stone
4. The Way The World Goes 'Round
5. Paradise
John Lee Hooker
6. Face To Face
7. Mabel
8. Hey Hey
Emmylou Harris
9. One Of These Days
10. Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
11. Save The Last Dancer for Me
12. MC Intro - DJ Intro
Pete Seeger
13. Old Time Religion