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Description
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.
Identifier
sc.0473.os_004.001
Date
1971
Keywords
Music festivals--Tennessee--Memphis.
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"River City Blues Festival program mockup, 1971" (2021). Documents. 9.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-0473-memphismusic1/9
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