Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Antone’s Club, Austin, TX

Since first opening on Sixth Street in 1975, Antone’s club has hosted the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Now the legendary club has moved to the corner of Fifth and Lavaca streets, but it remains the home of the blues in Austin offering space for 650 or less. About Junior Wells, one of the finest harmonica players and bluesmen of all time, read this tale of his start, is printed on the back of his debut album, he was thirty years old, in 1965, Hoodoo Man Blues: "I went to this pawnshop downtown and the man had a harmonica priced at $2.00. I got a job on a soda truck... played hookey from school... worked all week and on Saturday the man gave me a dollar and a half. A dollar and a half! For a whole week of work. I went to the pawnshop and the man said the price was two dollars. I told him I had to have that harp. He walked away from the counter – left the harp there. So I laid my dollar-and-a-half on the counter and picked up the harp. When my trial came up, the judge asked me why I did it. I told him I had to have that harp. The judge asked me to play it and when I did he gave the man the 50 cents and hollered 'Case dismissed!'" The rest is history, as they say. We sure are happy you got that harp. About Mr Buddy Guy, who turns 86 years young on July 30th! So much could be said about this “Blues Legend” so, let's just wish him the VERY BEST on his 86th trip around the Sun!