The Checkerboard Lounge was a blues club on the South Side of

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, established in 1972 at 423 E. 43rd St. by L.C. Thurman and

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. In 1985, Guy left the partnership and later established

Buddy Guy's Legends Buddy Guy's Legends is a blues club in Chicago, Illinois. It was opened in 1989 by blues musician Buddy Guy who still owns the club and who still makes regular appearances, performing a month of shows each January. Legends is one of the few b ...

in Chicago's

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neighborhood.

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video and live album ''

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'' included the Rolling Stones performing with

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, Buddy Guy,

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, and members of Muddy Waters' band. In 2003, the Checkerboard Lounge, in danger of closing due to structural issues with the building, moved to a newly renovated building at 5201 S. Harper Court in Hyde Park. The club experienced declining attendance and it closed its doors in 2015, after the death of L.C. Thurman. The club hosted musical acts including Lefty Dizz,

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, Eric Clapton,

Magic Slim Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 – February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist. Born at Torrance, near Grenada, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers, he followed blues greats such as Muddy Waters and H ...

, Vance Kelly,

, James Cotton, Little Johnny Christian and the Chicago Playboys, Buddy Scott and the Rib Tips, Jerry Lucky Lee and the Groove Machine, and

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