Junior Wells
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Emerging from the blues-rich environs of Memphis and West Memphis, he was taught harmonica by his cousin Junior Parker and by Sonny Boy Williamson II, mastering the instrument by age seven before relocating to Chicago with his mother in 1948. In Chicago he joined the Aces and, after briefly substituting for Little Walter in Muddy Waters’s band, began recording for States and Chief Records, produci…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
