Chords for Junior Wells last (?) Interview part 1

_ _ _ _ _ [F] Give me one real nice day, yeah, and I'll turn [C] right back. _
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leaving home, [Fm] but you gotta make me [C] change my mind.
_ _ _ _ _ Baby, I got you in my mind, and I know [G] that you got mine. _
_ _ _ You [F] know that I'll call, _ I'll call [G] you too.
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_ We're here with Junior Wells.
Junior, welcome first of all.
It's a pleasure to have you out here.
Thank you very much.
Very quickly, a little bit of background on your history as a blues man.
_ When were you _ first exposed to the music, to blues music? _
_ [F] Well, I thought that _ I had been listening to Randy's Record Shop thing. _
And [N] I didn't hear anything about _ Sonny Boy on there at that time.
_ But once I was in Chicago, _ Sonny Land Slim and _ Big Maceo and people like that,
Sonny used to get me around with him and Robert Junior Lockwood. _ _ _
_ And we were at 30th and Indiana in the basement of the hotel.
Was that the Flame?
No, the place, the hotel was in the basement.
_ _ And _ Sonny Boy came in there.
_ _ He was playing the harmonica and I was there because Sonny Land used to come by the house and pick me up all the time and take me out with him.
And I saw him.
_ And I could understand why it was that when he was singing, he didn't stutter.
But when he wasn't singing, he did stutter.
Right, when he spoke, he had a little speech problem.
Yeah, you know, so it was a big thing and I heard him play.
And I said, now this is what I want to do here.
Like he was playing, you know, so I started to _ practice on that type of thing. _ _
Then Tampa Red, he told me, you know, Junior said, you don't want _ to do a copycat thing like Sonny Boy.
You want to try to get a thing of your own also.
So I told him, I said, well, whilst I'm doing what I'm doing now, let me do what I'm doing now. _
This is what's setting me off.
It _ _ was like a foundation for me to _ _ explore other options other than what I had in mind to do.
So I did those things.
And then _ it was like _ _ everything he did, _ it always set me off.
Everything he did, I _ always try to make sure I could try to create a different thing than what he was doing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Every Sunday when he had a Sunday matinee in the hotel, I'd go down there.
_ Dick Macy, all of us come down there, be all out.
I used to go down there and Dick did a Brahms thing.
And _ I just thought I was a fortunate young person to have all these older musicians in my corner to try to help me out.
How old were you then?
When I first went into the club?
Yeah.
I was 10 years old.
10 years old?
Yeah.
Were you playing harmonica at that time yet?
I was trying.
Yeah.
It _ _ _ was _ _ a thing that I wanted _ _ to do because before then I had went back down to Westminster, Arkansas.
I passed by this church, St.
Paul.
And the way he was playing the music and stuff up in there and dancing around, I thought that it was a blues joint because I didn't know.
So I went back over where my mom was with my aunties and I told her I was going to the blues joint over at St.
Paul.
She said, well, before you're information, young man, St.
Paul is not a blues joint.
It's a sanctified church.
I said, well, they was playing the blues.
She said, no, they wasn't.
She said, it's the way they _ _ expressed themselves in the religional way.
_ _ _ What the preacher had did to me on the downfall of the baptism, she said, well, now you're sanctified and it's your religion.
I _ _ _ just knew what I heard.
And _ _ I thought that _ _ if the _ blues or the blues and what is sanctified people play them, then there should be no handicap in whatever I do.
So it's going to be a natural thing to me.
Did you get to see Sonny Boy perform much before he died?
No, not much.
Because _ most of the time I _ _ _ get to go to different places where he was doing the thing.
And because my mom, I used to, she thought I was in school when I wasn't.
I got beat up by dad and stuff, you know.
So eventually she told me, what you want to do?
Go up to be a dummy or something?
I _ said, I'm going to play music anyway.
She said, you still got a little more to play music.
You know, it's a junior education too.
_ _ I _ _ listened to what she was saying and every now and then I'd go off again.
Because I couldn't do what I wanted to.
I just wanted to forget about the school.
Just let me play the music.
But I'm happy now as of today that people like _ Sutherland Slim told me, you know, _ you need to get an education.
Because I don't have one myself.
He said, I'm just thankful for you.
_ _ _ _ He said, but you're a young man.
I don't think you should be in this particular rut that you're in. _ _ _