Junior Wells
USA
Born: 09 December 1934
Died: 15 January 1998
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Blues
Styles: Electric Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Electric Harmonica Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues, Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues, Modern Electric Chicago Blues, Blues Revival, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues
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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 '50s 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 Da...
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