MUDDY WATERS
A Night in Boston + added tracks
Jan. 16, 1974

CDR acquired in trade > EAC (secure mode) > HD > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC > you

I noticed there was great deal of interest in the Muddy Waters torrent currently uploaded here at DIME so I searched
my collection to see what I might be able to offer everyone. I came up with this amazing show that I traded for
several years ago. I was surprised to see that no one had offered yet here at DIME.

The trader who sent me this show said it was a soundboard, but I supposed it could be FM or pre-FM. The sound for the first 12 tracks is so amazing and so pure that I spent a considerable amount of time checking to make certain it wasn't actually a commercial release. After checking everywhere I could think of, including the All Music Guide, I have decided it isn't, but the sound is that good that it could be.

The cdr I received has 16 tracks and checking all my sources I found that several people have this show with this exact setlist but other traders have version with various tracks missing. It has also been listed as "Paul's Mall" with this same date, but I believe that is incorrect. All the sources I looked at listed track 10 simply as "Instrumental" but I believe this is Muddy's version of "Honky Tonk"--a song which he recorded and was known to play live-- and I have titled it as such. Track 11 was called "Harmonica Boogie" but in researching I found that Muddy and his band recorded a song known as "Harmonica Rockin'", so I have titled it that. If anyone has definitive knowledge of any mistakes I've made please let me know, so we can get this right.

Several versions of this show end with Track 12, "Garbage Man," and I believe that is correct. However, lots of people, including myself obviously, have this 16-track version. Upon careful listening, I believe that Track 13
("Caldonia") is from some other show source. Its sound is excellent, but it doesn't have the drummer mixed in quite the same position and with the same crispness as the first 12 tracks. The final 3 tracks are--to me, at least--obviously from some other show source. For one, Track 14 is the same song as Track 1, hardly likely in the same show. But more obviously the sound can't match the quality of the first 12 tracks, which I would like to repeat is so good that I truly did think they might have been from a commercial recording until I checked.

I thought for a while about including only the first 12 tracks but decided to include them all since 3 of the 4 were songs that were not included in the first 12 and the other--"Blow Wind Blow"--is a different arrangement, and this keeps everything in tact the way I received it. You can judge for yourself whether they are all from the same source.

I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I have as Muddy's setlist is outstanding and the sound for the first 12 tracks is simply amazing.

01. Blow Wind Blow
02. Howlin' Wolf
03. Can't Get No Grindin' (What's the Matter with the Mill)
04. Someday, Baby
05. Hoochie Coochie Man
06. Baby, Please Don't Go
07. Mannish Boy
08. Everything's Going to Be All Right
09. Got My Mojo Working
10. Honky Tonk
11. Harmonica Rockin'
12. Garbage Man
13. Caldonia
14. Blow Wind Blow
15. Kansas City
16. Corrinna Corrinna