Junior Wells Quotes

I played on Maxwell Street a couple of times--me and Little Walter Jacobs. Yeah, we used to get together, go down on there Sunday morning and play. And Muddy Waters, he didn't appreciate it because he said that me and Walter was only doing one thing: making him look bad, 'cause we was down there playing in the streets. But, at that time union scales wasn't but twelve dollars and fifty cents a night. And me and Walter could go over there on Sunday morning and we come [away] with a couple of hundred dollars in our pocket.
Junior Wells

I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago.
He was a tremendous slideman. I never saw him do anything other than play the slide. I never just saw him just use his hand. He always used a slide. He had a little-bitty drummer we called "Shorty". He was about that high [hand gesture]. And he was his drummer. That's all he had was a slide guitar and a drummer.
Junior Wells