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Junior Wells (born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr.; December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998) was an American singer, harmonica player, and recording artist. He is best known for his signature song " Messin' with the Kid " and his 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues , described by the critic Bill Dahl as "one of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s". [ 3 ]
Junior Wells - Messin' With The KidMontreux 1974 from the dvd "Muddy Waters - Messin' with the blues"A better version of previous upload
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Junior Wells, a blues singer and harmonica player who was one of the major players of Chicago's dynamic, funky, electric blues sound in the late 1950's and 60's and an influential figure in the ...
Junior Wells was an American blues singer and harmonica player who was one of the musicians who introduced electric Chicago blues to international audiences and, from 1965, was one of the most popular of all blues performers. The son of an Arkansas sharecropper, Wells moved in 1946 with his mother
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Mar 30, 2008 · Junior Wells performing at Theresa's Lounge in Chicago in the mid 1970s. Buddy Guy and Phil Guy are on guitars.
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Junior Wells. Junior Wells (born December 9, 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee, died January 15, 1998), born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., was a blues vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago. He made his first recordings for States in 1953 and continued to record regularly up until his death, from 1965 often in the company of guitarist Buddy Guy .
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Junior Wells & Buddy Guy - Little By Little , PBS "SOUNDSTAGE" At WTTW TV STUDIOS, CHICAGO,IL,17-DEC-1971
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