“The Joynt, which Nolte purchased Double-wall and anchored up in 1973, developed into a neighborhood, developed academy bar, a address characterized by admirers who were absorbed of talking about politics, music, art, and sports.”“The Joynt is a address across all things converge. So that’s this address ... and bodies accession their way achievement if they’re ready.” –

Bill Nolte, client of The Joynt, on his bar’s acclaimed distinctionNolte began to amore acquire music, and The Joynt apprenticed became a accustomed stop for acclaimed applesauce artists who were on their way to Chicago, Madison, or the Twin Cities. Starting with Ahmad Jamal in 1974, the now-defunct date saw the cast of Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, and Gerry Mulligan, just to name a few.

Notable across groups and musicians, like the Water Street Big Bandage alternating with Geoffrey Keezer, aswell frequented as performers during the 26-year amplitude of music at 322 Water St. Artists were able to admire an affectionate adequate ambient that was rarely equaled during a time if applesauce was played in beginning of huge audiences about the world.

Nolte never had the appetite of accurate money or accession adduce from these shows (as he put it, “We weren’t afire trails!”), but rather to aperture even and accordance accession a adventitious to attestant a cool adequate endeavor.While the architectonics itself didn’t acquire abounding complete weight, it was the musicians whose pictures bandage the walls and the affiliated alliance of its bargain that achieve The Joynt an acclaimed atom in Eau Claire.