Opening for Steve Martin at the Universal Amphitheater on September 9, 1978, The Blues Brothers surprised the crowd with a lightning-bolt soul revue featuring Stax’s own Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn. The performance was released as Briefcase Full of Blues, which hit #1 & went double-platinum, leading to the Blues Brothers movie.

It was Bonnie Raitt’s 1970 performance with Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Philadelphia Folk Festival that earned her first recording contract with Warner Brothers.

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