Saturday, September 2, 1967 was night two of the Miller Blues Band with Mother Earth and Bukka White at the Avalon, on Mouse and Kelley's "Angel" — FD-78, printed hot orange on flat blue, a winged figure inside a spiral ribbon of hand-lettering.

The headliner's name is a small lesson in how unsettled everything still was: three sources give it three names. The poster reads MILLER BLUES BAND. The Family Dog's own listings say Steve Miller Band. Wolfgang's catalogues the sheet under The Steve Miller Blues Band. Same group, same year, three renderings — Miller had come from Texas by way of Chicago, formed the band in San Francisco in 1966, and spent its first two years shedding words from its name. This chronicle takes the poster as the artifact of record.

Mother Earth, second-billed, were Tracy Nelson's band, arrived from Wisconsin and Texas by way of the Chicago folk circuit. And Bukka White, third, was fifty-eight and playing a steel-bodied National in a psychedelic ballroom to a room of people in their twenties — the Avalon's particular achievement, repeated so often across these pages that it can pass without comment.