Hey Will
I remember that tour, all the team came down to the Roundhouse in Wardour Street one evening when Cyril Davies was running the blues and barrelhouse club there. I made the acquaintance of Cousin Joe that evening and he was very wary when I bought him a whisky - and no I wasn't playing the part of a boring JMF (Jazz Mans Friend) as George Webb used call such people. It was Joe's first trip to the UK and understandably might be feeling a little less relaxed. However when I met him again in New Orleans and on his return visits to Europe he was a different man. Life and soul of any gathering. What days they were with regular visits by so many greats, Muddy upsetting the jazzers with his amplified Guitar and Spann's miced(?) up piano and on his next trip playing acoustic guitar and not understanding why the by-then younger blues fanatics were less than enthusiastic.

Hoot