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Little Junior Parker
Blues singer and harmonica player Herman (possibly Herbert) Parker - born March
27, 1932, in Bobo, Mississippi - is better known by his stage names Little
Junior Parker and Junior Parker. Regarded as one of the finest blues singers of
the 1950s and 1960s, his ‘velvet-smooth’ vocals and harmonica graced many
classic blues records, although there was a period when his recordings moved
away from down-home blues and embraced a blues-soul direction. During his
heyday, he was one of blues’ biggest stars alongside B. B. King, Bobby ‘Blue’
Bland and Little Milton. In his early years, he ...
