[Jazz & Song] Waters, Muddy. (1915-1983) Signed

[Jazz & Song] Waters, Muddy. (1915-1983)

Signed "Alice's Revisited" Contract

DS from the esteemed and influential blues musician. 1 page, letterhead of the Chicago Federation of Musicians / Miscellaneous Musical Services Contract, 8.5 x 14, February 21, 1971. Agreement between Alice's Revisited and Muddy Waters, who was hired to provide his services for a "benefit concert...evening 1 hour show." Signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint by Muddy Waters. In fine condition, with expected document wear. Together with the associated Employer and Local 10-208 carbon copies replicating the original.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Chicago hippie juice bar "Alice's Revisited," regularly featured blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Muhal Richard Abrams, Charlie Musselwhite, Otis Rush, Sunnyland Slim, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells along with local rock acts like Styx who played there every Tuesday night. Howlin' Wolf even recorded his blues albums "Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited" and "Chess" there in the early 70s. At the time, the cover charge was $2, and Vietnam vets got in for a buck. They had no liquor license (their landlord at the time was a church), but they were hardly a conventional coffee house, and their offices were upstairs of local underground newspaper, "The Seed," whose back-page classifieds advertised the selling spots of pot dealers. (12966)

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