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Tempo: Junior Wells

Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967

YOU CAN take Junior Wells out of Chicago but, thankfully, you can't take Chicago out of Junior Wells. The 31-year-old Wells, regarded for some years as the best of the young rhythm and blues singers in Chicago, is now playing his own special kind of South Side music for fans across the country.

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