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  Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival poster, 1969

  Copy of a poster for the Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival and First Annual W.C. Handy Memorial Concert held at Overton Park Shell on June 6-7, 1969.

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  Handy Magazine, Memphis, 1:2, 1977

  Vol. 1, No. 2, of "Handy Magazine", Memphis, Tennessee, published by Pat Miller in September 1977. Includes articles on Jaguar, Junction, Elvis Presley, Target, Zorro, Radio Station WDIA, Eddie Floyd, Con-Funk-Shun, and Cottonmouth.

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  Memphis Cotton Carnival MusicFest program, 1983

  Foldout program for the Memphis Cotton Carnival MusicFest held at the Mid-South Fairgrounds in Memphis, Tennessee, between May 27 and June 5, 1983. The performers included: Bar-Kays, Cheap Trick, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Kool and the Gang, Johnny Rivers, Tanya Tucker and George Jones.

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  River City Blues Festival poster, 1973

  Poster for the River City Blues Festival held at Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, on November 14, 1973. Performers included: Thomas Pinkston and his Handymen, Furry Lewis, Memphis Piano Red, Phineas Newborn, Jr., Lum Guffin, Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys, Houston Stackhouse, Charlie Banks and the Beale Street Originals, Little Laura Dukes, Sam Chatmon.

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  River City Blues Festival program mockup, 1971

  Program mockup for the River City Blues Festival held at the Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, on December 3, 1971. It features photographs taken by Steve LaVere of some of the performing musicians, including Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, Sam Clark, Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Hammie Nixon and Sleepy John Estes, Willie Morris, Mrs. Van Hunt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Richard "Hacksaw" Harney, Willie "61" Blackwell, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Houston Stackhouse, “Sweet Charlene”, and Bukka White.

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  River City Review, Vol. 3:3, Memphis, 1973

  Pages 1 and 2 of Vol. 3, No. 3 of "River City Review", a monthly newspaper published in 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  River City Review, Vol. 3:6, Memphis, 1973

  Vol. 3, No. 6 of "River City Review", a monthly newspaper published in 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee. The newspaper was published by James M. Godown and included articles on local music, record reviews, and interviews. This issue included an article on the Ozark Mountain Folkfair, bands Hookfoot and Foghat, a concert at the Overton Park Shell, and an interview with George Klein of WHBQ.

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  River City Review, Vol. 3:7, Memphis, 1973

  Vol. 3, No. 7 of "River City Review", a monthly newspaper published in 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee. The newspaper was published by James M. Godown and included articles on local music, record reviews, and interviews. This issue included concert reviews of Albert King and bands Z.Z. Top, Humble Pie and T-Rex, Mott the Hoople, and Mahavishnu Orchestra, an obituary for Memphis Minnie, articles on the Marshall Tucker Band and the Osmonds, and an interview with Edgar Winter.

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  River City Review, Vol. 3:8, Memphis, 1973

  Vol. 3, No. 8 of "River City Review", a monthly newspaper published in 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee. The newspaper was published by James M. Godown and included articles on local music, record reviews, and interviews. This issue included an article on Nell Aspero II, the bluegrass festival at Lakeland, the Elton John concert in Memphis, and an interview with Speedy Keen.