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Muddy Waters Blues Band....November 21, 1977 (1st show; 9:20 PM)
Marble Bar/Congress Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA

Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - lead vocals & guitar
Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson - guitar & vocals
Bob Margolin - guitar
Jerry Portnoy - harmonica
"Pine Top" Perkins - piano
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - drums
Calvin Jones - bass

Taper: bpthree
Taping Gear: Sony TC-1100T with Sony ECM-16 condenser microphone
Lineage: Maxell UD master cassette> Teac A-550RX cassette playback> TASCAM CDRW-700> Trade CD-R (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Quality: vg+
Length: 71:00 minutes
Artwork: none.
Samples: none.


Set List:

01. Band Instrumental
02. Band Instrumental
03. Band Instrumental
04. (Muddy intro)
05. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
06. It's All My Fault (?)
07. Rock Me, Baby
08. The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock N' Roll
09. They Call Me Muddy Waters
10. Band Introductions/Here I Am (?)/Muddy Exit
11. Killing Floor (Guitar Jr. vocal)
12. All I Had Was Gone (?) (Guitar Jr. vocal)
13. Little Red Rooster (Guitar Jr. vocal)
14. Closing Instrumental

Comments:

1- PLEASE help with the set list.
2- Taper's show description & comments follow:

The "Marble Bar" was a venue that operated in the basement of a seedy hotel from about
1977 to 1985. In it's heyday, both the hotel and the bar had been Baltimore landmarks.
It got it's name from a 70 foot solid marble bar. In 1977 it was in a rough area of town.
The venue could have been really nice if they had the funds to restore it some, but that
never happened. It was a lot of concrete, and smelled like a musty basement to boot. The
last I heard, it had boarded up for years, and they were going to convert the Hotel into
condos.

This was the first of the four times I saw Muddy. Nick Jamison (ex-FOGHAT) opened touring
on his solo record. I thought the sound left something to be desired, as the vocals sounded
like they were coming from the next room. Still, I'm happy to still have this document to
one of the greats, and I hope you enjoy it as well, despite the vocal mix. Instrumentally it
sounds fine.

bpthree

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Prepared by Jeff James (roryglzep@aol.com)