|
Home >> Arts >> Music >> Instruments >> Winds >> Harmonica >> Styles >> Blues >> Performers >> Wells, Junior |
|
Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 - January 15, 1998), born Amos Blackmore, was the blues harmonica player depending within Chicago world health organization was notable for swimming using Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lonnie Brooks, the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. He was innate within Memphis, Tennessee, December 9, 1934, and raised within Arkansas. He moved to Chicago in 1948 and first manufactured his mark at age Xviii swimming around Muddy Waters' band. He late worked by using Buddy Guy in the 1960s and recorded for Delmark Records. His virtually all memorable songs come "Messin' With the Kid" & "Little by Little," & his right-known album 1965's legendary "Hoodoo Man Blues," which evokes a smoky atmosphere of the era's Westside Chicago blues blocks. inside his passing in 1998, Junior Wells was interred in the Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago.
| |
|
Wells, Junior Delmark Records' Bob Koester remembers the late harpman. Junior Wells Entry in the Center Stage Who's Who in Chicago Music directory. Includes biography, related artists, and other links. Junior Wells Article from Blues To Do with photograph and praise from fellow bluesmen. Junior Wells Obituary, biography, and links from Fuller Up, Dead Musician Directory. Junior Wells Profile by Nubar Alexaniun features 48 hours on the town with the bluesman. Junior Wells Entry at Blues Web with photograph, recording history, and WAV audio sample with Buddy Guy. Junior Wells Filmography at IMDb with acting credits. |
|
© 2005 GeneralAnswers.org