On September 26, 1956, Elvis Presley, now a world-famous rising star, returned to his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi to perform at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair & Dairy Show – the very same place where he performed in public for the first time at just ten years old.

This quality embroidered hat features Chance Records and Chicago, Illinois. Chance Records was a Chicago-based blues label that captured the raw, postwar electric blues sound coming out of the city in the 1950s. It’s closely associated with influential Chicago blues artists and represents a pivotal moment when the blues moved from Southern roots to an urban, electrified edge.