Junior Wells
Junior Wells
Artist Information
Genres: Modern Electric Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Electric Harmonica Blues, Harmonica Blues, Modern Electric Chicago Blues, Blues Revival
Active: 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's
Born: December 9, 1934 in Memphis, TN
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Biography
He was one bad dude, strutting across the stage like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking Chicago blues attack. Amazingly, Junior Wells kept at precisely this sort of thing for over 40 years -- he was an active performer from the dawn of the 1950s to his death in the late '90s. Born in Memphis, Wells learned his earliest harp licks from another future legend, Little Junior Parker, before he came to Chicago at age 12. In 1950, the teenager passed an impromptu audition for guitarists Louis and David Myers at a house party on the South side, and the Deuces were born.
Discography
Release: January 13, 2008
Label: Recordings of Substance
Release: June 12, 2007
Label: Vanguard