Muddy Waters, Wise Fool’s Pub, Chicago, Oct. 1968

Photograph and Text by Bruce Berman©

Never gonna be another.
The Mississippi Wave, coming up from the Delta like a furious hurricane.
All of ’em. Muddy. Wolf. Buddy. Jimmy C. Jimmy R. Fred Below beating on those skins!
I can hear it now. No, not on Spotify.
In my head.
And it sounds like, well, like beauty.