Original 1st printing 22 x 14" boxing/broadside-style concert poster for "A Concert of Blues and Gospel Music", a one-day show featuring Jimmy Reed and Rev. Gary Davis (1st West Coast appearance) at the Berkeley Community Theatre on 1/18/1964. Designer unknown/not credited, image is featured in the Art of Rock on page 56 (plate 1.95). Medium-thick flat index stock poster is in good/decent (B to B/B-) condition; there is a pronounced horizontal curl to the paper, a large semi-pronounced vertical center crease, a set of tack holes, a moderate amount of edge wear/creasing, a few soft surface stains and a pronounced rub mark on the "Bl" of "Blues", a few stray thin bends and tiny stress creases here and there and a moderate degree of toning... this poster has clearly been around the block a few times, but the scarcity and overall coolness factor more than makes up for it. REALLY neat early-'64 broadside-style blues concert poster from the Art of Rock.
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