Junior Wells
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Oct 27, 2026
Dick ShurmanGUEST
It didn't take me long at all to get tapped in.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
The previous weekend that was supposed to be my senior prom, Junior Wells had come through Seattle, and I went to see him both the nights he played at a little downtown club.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
Oh, man.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
Louis Myers, who was one of my greatest manners.
Scott HoltGUEST
I'd been playing for probably about six months.
Scott HoltGUEST
And my dad was working down in Florida and Buddy and Junior Wells were on tour down there.
Scott HoltGUEST
And so he invited me to come down and we'd go see the show.
Scott HoltGUEST
And then unbeknownst to me, he contacted Buddy at home and said, hey, my son wants to learn how to play guitar.
speaker_2HOST
But if you're going to talk about voodoo and hoodoo, there's only one song you can go to.
speaker_2HOST
That, of course, is the legendary song from the legendary great Junior Wells with the Hoodoo Man Blues right here on Pacific Street Blues as we celebrate with music for Halloween.
Junior WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lord, I wonder what's got them out of time over time.
Junior WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It seems like I was everything and change, but I hold my hand.
Adam ChoitHOST
Last year, not too many either.
Adam ChoitHOST
That's how they're able to keep all these songs so special, you know? It was originally performed by Junior Wells.
Adam ChoitHOST
I like Greg Allman's recording of Little by Little.
Adam ChoitHOST
That's his studio recording.
Bobbi GoldenHOST
And what a soundtrack.
Bobbi GoldenHOST
Over the years, musicians associated with performances at the Slippery Noodle have included blues legends and major performers such as Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Edgar Winter, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, John Maul, Luther Allison, Junior Wells, Matt Guitar Murphy, Charlie Musselwhite, Magic Dick, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Country Joe McDonald, and many others.
Bobbi GoldenHOST
The Y Store.
Bobbi GoldenHOST
The venue also became associated with Indianapolis musicians, including Gene Deere, who regularly performed there and released music through the Slippery Noodles' own label.
Jake FeinbergHOST
The guys in Medora, that band, Hawk Walensky and those guys, they would show up.
Jake FeinbergHOST
There'd be a guy, you know, Junior Wells playing in the store window somewhere.
Jake FeinbergHOST
I mean, it was incredible.
Ernie DurawaGUEST
I didn't much go to Southside Chicago because I was scared to go to Southside.
P.W. FentonHOST
I am your host, P.W. Fenton.
P.W. FentonHOST
[blues music] On this day in 1960, Junior Wells recorded "Messin' with the Kid."
Junior WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What they say is gonna hold around town.
Junior WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The people are sayin' they gonna put the kid down.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
He had practiced harmonica in secret for a long time.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
then one night at a folk club he finally got up with garcia behind him on guitar and sang like lightnin hopkins and it blew everybody's mind by the time the dead flew to new york pigpen had a small choice set of numbers that were his alone Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour, Junior Parker's Next Time You See Me, Slim Harpo's King B, Good Morning Little School Girl, the old Sonny Boy Williamson Blues, which the dead seem to have learned from a Junior Wells arrangement.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Blair Jackson points out that apart from Midnight Hour, almost none of these had been hits outside the rhythm and blues charts.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
To a young white crowd they were brand new.
Muruga BookerGUEST
right then and there.
Muruga BookerGUEST
And so that led to me playing with all kinds of different people, from John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Junior Wells, and Buddy Guy, and Jim and Gene and Harvey Brooks and Dave Brubeck, Weather Report.
Muruga BookerGUEST
I did the Weather Report Sweet Nighter album, which was a million seller, and played with Paul Winter Concert.
Muruga BookerGUEST
And there, I was able to play with classical musicians and jazz and pop fused together.
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Muruga BookerGUEST
Instead of going boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I would go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Muruga BookerGUEST
So if you turn it around, you wouldn't know that it was turned around because it's all on the one.
Muruga BookerGUEST
And so I had a chance to play with Jimmy Reed, Johnny Hooker, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Sam Lay, all of these blues and folk musicians, and then the jazz musicians, and then The young social jazz musicians were trying to be cool and I was a young hippie with long hair liking West Coast, East Coast jazz that was like Coltrane and they were liking West Coast jazz which was, you know, more calm and cool.
Muruga BookerGUEST
And so they didn't like me playing with them that much.
Colin JamesGUEST
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Colin JamesGUEST
Junior Wells record.
Tom PowerHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Colin JamesGUEST
And everyone was gone.
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