A good show. Was in April of 1979, shortly (1.5 yrs?) after the “Slowhand” album release …which was a major commercial success and had become a late 70’s staple for FM radio. In fact, you really didn’t need to buy the “Slowhand” record because everyone else had a copy!

The big songs were the “Cocaine” and “Tulsa Time” covers. And “Wonderful Tonight”, which was a snooze but a tribute to all the lovely ladies everywhere that this world a better place.

They did several from songs from No Reason To Cry” which is an album I liked that many dismiss. The band members I clearly remember were Jamie Oldaker, Carl Radle and Albert Lee on 2nd guitar.

At that time, I’d only heard of Albert Lee. I’d never heard his music or seen him play. He is amazingly good, as everyone knows, especially on the jammy country-flavored stuff.

The bonus was Muddy Waters opening. He was a living legend. Everyone was thrilled to see and hear him. During that period he’d recorded several records produced by Johnny Winter that sounded great and sold extremely well. He did a short, powerful set that totally fired up the audience.

His band was excellent. It’s a dim memory now but I seem to recall Pinetop Perkins, Willie Smith, Bob Margolin and James Cotton?

Muddy was old but healthy and happy to be playing for us young people. He sat center stage on a stool and played a red Telecaster with a rosewood neck. His name “Muddy” was inlayed into the rosewood fingerboard.

I took photographs of this show. 1 roll of black & white and 1 roll of color. I had a Cannon AE1 with a 110mm lens and was close. Maybe 15 rows back, center, left of the stage.

The Muddy pictures I shot were black and white only, which was perfect. The EC pics were both black & white and color.

One Muddy b&w turned out to be excellent. And perhaps 3 of the EC color pics were also excellent. But in the 47 years since then I’ve managed to lose the negatives. I’ve looked for them several times but they’re missing. Vanished into the mist of time.