Set List: B.B. King, San Francisco, 1968

In celebration of B.B. King's 82nd birthday on Sunday, let's look back 40 years ago, when King's management made a concerted effort to expose the guitarist-singer to a rock audience. It was in 1967 that King, already a staple in the blues world, first performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival and San Francisco’s Fillmore West.
In 1968, King had a top 10 R&B hit with “Paying the Cost to Be the Boss” and shared bills with the Yardbirds, Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Mothers of Invention and Terry Reid. A year later, he opened 18 shows for the Rolling Stones.

For the early show on June 8, 1968 at San Francisco's Winterland, King played:
I Don't Want You / It's Gonna Work Out Fine / Every Day I Have the Blues / How Blue Can You Get? / Please Love Me / Confessin' the Blues / Woke Up This Morning (My Baby's Gone) / Instrumental jam with Albert King / Sweet Sixteen

How good was he in 1968? Check out this TV performance.