Jimmy Reed - Masonic Hall, Richmond, CA, 1964

A concert for a "Leap Year Dance" in Richmond, CA, on Sat. Jan. 25, 1964. The poster shows a photograph of Jimmy Reed seated, playing the guitar, and lists recent releases "Bright Lights Big City" and "Honest I Do". The support acts are "Richmond's own / Little Blues Junior Sharper / plus / The Businessman Night Life Band". Notable for Jimmi Reed who carried his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues , as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries. His lazy, slack-jawed singing, piercing harmonica and hypnotic guitar patterns were one of the blues most easily identifiable sounds in the 1950s and 1960s This is a poster of Jimmy Reed’s Concert in Richmond back in 1964.