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Kerr's interest in music was triggered at theearly age of 6 when he learned to play harmonica,a skill he still incorporates in his routine.Under the influence of his father, a "failedHollywood singer," Kerr suppressed his musicalinclinations to pursue a more conventional career,working at AT&T and a cellular communicationscompany. However, his passion bubbled under thesurface, until he finally decided to abandoncorporate life in favor of his true calling in1993...
...Kerr interrupts himself to offer the harmonicarift. "`All right,' he says, `you sound good.We'll call you up.' So I chugged a couple ofdrinks, I can't remember what I was drinking atthe time, I think it was rum, and all of a suddenI hear `Is there a harmonica player out there?'And I come running over the monitors, jump up onstage, grab the wireless mike and I just startedwailing. I remember the whole crowd moving in, Ifelt like Jon Bon Jovi or something...
Skee-ball: 3,000 tickets win you a squirt gun, a spider ring, a plastic change purse, a cheap harmonica, a Chinese finger trap and her heart...
...might have been able to carry a tune, but usually my singing sounded more like the call of a tomcat on the prowl. My guitar playing was similarly sub-standard, though most wouldn't be able to tell through the jangling of six crudely-tuned strings. And, finally, my harmonica playing--which I'd been toying with for a longer time--was more than enough to set the dog howling in pain and my little brother storming to my room to display his lack of enthusiasm with my skills. I was disheartened, to say the least...
DIED. JUNIOR WELLS, 63, blues master of the harmonica; of cancer; in Chicago. Playing the blues came naturally to a youth angling for tips in the streets of West Memphis, Ark. But he hit his groove in the Windy City as one-third of the Little Chicago Devils and later on tour with Muddy Waters. Hoodoo Man Blues, his classic jam session with guitarist Buddy Guy, was Wells at his finest--fiery, raw, defiant...