WELLS, AMOS (JUNIOR
). Bluesman ( in Memphis, Tennessee). His family moved to Chicago when he was a child. He obtained his first harmonica at the age of twelve; by the time he was fourteen he was playing with
Tampa Red
(Hudson Whittaker
) and other established bluesmen. His style development was influenced by
(Little
) Walter Jacobs
, but he later developed his own distinctive amplified-harmonica style, which reflected the carryover of guitar stylistic elements to his...
WELLS, AMOS
(*1934)> BLUESMAN