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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 1950s to his death in the late '90s. Born in Memphis, Wells learned his earliest harp licks ...more

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  • Messin' With the Kid
  • Junior's Wail
  • Cha Cha Cha in Blues
  • Hoodoo Man
  • Come on in This House

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  • Junior Wells at The Music Box
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