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Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Live In Concert DVD 
Dynamic Watson performance from 1993 festival captured on tape

On August 5, 2008 Music Video Distributors will be releasing Johnny "Guitar" Watson's Live In Concert, the DVD featuring a 1993 performance by the legendary guitarist at the North Sea Jazz Festival, held each year in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The DVD release features over two-and-a-half hours of music and special features, including interviews with Watson, a biography of the artist, and a complete discography of the acclaimed musician.

Aside from the aforementioned North Sea Jazz Festival performance, Live In Concert also includes live footage from a 1980 Watson performance that features extended funk jams on "Booty Ooty" and "Real Mother For Ya;" an early-era Watson performing with rock-and-soul legend Bo Diddley; and four performances culled from one of Watson's final shows at the 1996 Bluesfest in Levekusen, Germany.

Johnny "Guitar" Watson's Live In Concert DVD also includes "In Memoriam," a 1996 tribute documentary that includes one of Watson's last interviews in which he talks about his music, his career, and his popularity with – and influence on – a generation of hip-hop artists. The disc also includes a 1987 radio interview with the influential bluesman.

Watson was born in Houston, Texas and was originally taught the piano by his musician father. However, inspired by Texas blues musicians like T-Bone Walker and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the future fret wizard turned to guitar at the young age of 11. A natural on the instrument, Watson performed alongside such Lone Star bluesmen as Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland while still a teen.

Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Watson blazed trails in blues and R&B with his dynamic stage show and electric Texas blues sound. In the 1970s, keeping up with changing musical trends, Watson reinvented himself as a funk guitarist and enjoyed a number of hit albums through the decade, each more outrageous and musically explosive than the previous. Watson continued to tour until his death in 1996, bringing his larger-than-life charisma and unique blend of blues, R&B, rock, and funk to stages across the globe.