MUDDY WATERS, RAY CHARLES, RUTH BROWN CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE 1954 CONCERT POSTER.
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Item Description
22x28.25" on cardboard. Promoting a "5 Star Rhythm & Blues Revue" concert at Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday Nov. 16 featuring Ruth Brown, Charles Brown, Ray Charles, Lowell Fulsom and Muddy Waters. Though Ray Charles gets the smallest strip naming his current top 10 R&B single "Don't You Know", only two days after this show he would record "I've Got A Woman" and by Jan. 1955 it was on top of the R&B charts securing his course to superstardom. Charles had been performing the song for the better part of a year and likely gave a rendition that Tuesday in Tennessee. Landing at the bottom of the bill is among the most important figures to rock 'n' roll music, the Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters, billed w/his most famous tune Hoochie Coochie Man (creatively spelled "Hootchy Kootchy Man"). This poster originates from the estate of the promoter and all surviving examples had some degree of lower edge wear. This example has had expert fill by Chameleon Restoration fixing the lower right section affecting the "Globe Poster - Baltimore" credit, the "nd" in "Band", Waters image and margin. Restored to VF. The work is near seamless and displays beautifully. Muddy Waters posters from the 1950s are almost non-existent, there are three known designs that are each unique having a known population of a single example for each, all held tightly in collections not expected to reach the market anytime soon. Outside of that group there is only this multi-act design.
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