Wheeler, Golden Big
(1929–1998)> HARMONICA PLAYER
Wheeler, Golden Big 16 December 1929; Baconton, GA – 20 July 1998; Chicago, IL Harmonica player; brother of guitarist James Wheeler. While a taxi driver in Albany, Georgia, in the late 1940s through 1951, he was encouraged by customer Buster Brown to take up the harmonica. After stints in New Jersey and Youngstown, Ohio, he moved to Chicago in 1954. The next year he became serious with the harmonica, playing in the manner of Jimmy Reed, and formed his first band. By 1958 he had met Little…