Joe Tex "Blues Singer" 1956 Nashville, TN Concert Poster....

Description

Joe Tex "Blues Singer" 1956 Nashville, TN Concert Poster. An original cardboard window card advertising "Blues Singer" and future star Joe Tex playing at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee for "Two Big Weekends Beginning Thursday, August 16," 1956. This yellow & black concert poster was made by the Hatch Show Print company right there in town.

It would be almost 10 years before Tex started burning up the R&B charts in 1965, with no less than seven Top 20 R&B hits that year - and after that, never looking back.

Poster has an unusual phrase in describing Tex's backing band: "Music Furnished By," that being Freddie Robinson and his Combo.

Measures a shade under 14" x 22" and grades to Very Good condition. Poster was once quarter-folded down to fit into Hatch Show Print's filing cabinets. As a result, the black color is broken in some places along the way, most notably in "Joe," "Tex" and "Robinson." Very lightly bumped corners and the expected light toning from the passage of six decades.

On the verso, the creases have not been reinforced and the horizontal fold, in particular, has broken the cardboard all the way across and weakened the board's structural integrity. So it flexes easily but lies flat nicely and this problem would vanish if it were framed. One could apply their own strong tape over these creases and considerably strengthen this window card. Also, "56" is written in pen in one of the corners, presumably by Hatch. COA from Heritage Auctions.

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