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From: ReSolution Graphics
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:40:39 -0700
Subject: Junior Wells

Answered my own post.

January 16, 1998
Web posted at: 5:58 p.m. EST (2258 GMT)

CHICAGO (AP) -- Junior Wells, a pioneer in blues harmonica who helped
define the Chicago sound, died Thursday. He was 63. Wells died after a
four-month battle with lymphoma, said his manager, Marty Salzman.
Wells, known for his unique harmonica style and musical sense of
adventure, has influenced generations of blues harmonica players.

He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 9, 1934, and raised in
Arkansas. He moved to Chicago in 1946 and first made his mark playing in
the Muddy Waters band. Before he became ill in September, he had
completed scenes for the movie "Blues Brothers 2000" and also recorded a
track for a Rolling Stones tribute album called "Paint It Blue: Songs
of the Rolling Stones." Bluesmen Luther Allison and Johnny Copeland
died after recording their final tracks for that same album. Last
year, Wells' "Come on in This House" won the W.C. Handy Blues Award for
traditional blues album. The record also was nominated for a traditional
blues Grammy.

I am deeply saddened.

Ray.