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The Checkerboard Lounge was a blues club on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, established in 1972 at 423 E. 43rd St. by L.C. Thurman and Buddy Guy. [1] [2] In 1985, Guy left the partnership and later established Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood.
Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 is a concert video and live album by American blues musician Muddy Waters and members of the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was recorded on 22 November 1981 by David Hewitt on the Record Plant Black Truck, mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and released on 10 July 2012.
The small, always-crowded Checker Board Lounge is one of Chicago's legendary blues clubs.
Legendary underground institution, Checkerboard Lounge, deliver a dynamic, soulful well of emotion and playful abandon in collective improvisation over classic blues, soul and originals.
On November 22, 1981, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and most of the Rolling Stones performed at Chicago's Checkerboard Lounge.
Waters also called up Buddy Guy, Lefty Dizz and Junior Wells to the stage of the old Checkerboard Lounge on 43rd Street. (The club closed in 2003, and relocated in ’05 to 5201 South Harper...
Checkerboard Lounge: Students, tourists, locals, and die-hard fans make the pilgrimage to this Southside blues venue. One word of caution — you may...
Though there certainly were more historic evenings in prior decades, the most famous gig in Chicago blues club history occurred on November 22, 1981, at the Checkerboard Lounge.
Was the Rolling Stones’s arrival at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago on November 22, 1981 an impromptu, unchoreographed exercise in pure fandom? Or was it a canny bit of promotion, a reminder that the Stones remained, at heart, an authentic blues act, most at home in a club full of black musicians?
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones – Live At The Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 documents just such history being made. As many know, bootleg versions of this show have been circulating for years. With this release by Eagle Vision, we have a remastered masterpiece.