AT NEWPORT 1960

Muddy's Sunday afternoon performance at Newport Jazz Festival proved a joyful termination, sparked by the
opening 'I Got My Brand On You' with Otis Spann honkytonking his way to glory, then powered on with a
version of Big Joe Williams' 'Baby Please Don't Go' and concluding with a stupendous rendition of 'Got My
Mojo Working'. The set had members of the crowd dancing and Muddy displaying his own terpsichorean
expertise as he grabbed James Cotton and the two waltzed across the stage in best ballroom style! With Muddy
utterly exhausted from his efforts, it was left to Otis Spann to perform the vocal duties on 'Goodbye Newport
Blues,' a piece featuring an impromptu lyric from poet Langston Hughes, who was present at Newport that day
and moved to contribute the perfect ending to one of the finest recordings ever issued in the name of blues. An
LP that would aptly be listed twelfth amid the Rolling Stone '50 Greatest Albums of All-Time'.