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Blues Boy Willie
12+ albums
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William Daniel McFalls, better known as Blues Boy Willie (born November 28, 1946), is an African American electric blues singer and harmonica player from Memphis, Texas. Blues Boy Willie is a living legend in blues music. He is gifted in music with the ability to play many instruments. McFalls is attempting to revive the popularity which the blues enjoyed in his native Memphis during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. McFalls is known for his unique urban sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues, sometimes defined as the "secular folk music of American blacks" pertinent to modern society. He started at a very young age playing the piano with his Father Gaines McFalls in a Ma Rainey Minstrel Show. Among McFalls' recordings are "Leroy" and "Where Is Leroy?". Willie's father, Gaines 'Tim' McFalls, played harmonica for the famous 'Ma' Rainey when he wasn't working in the cotton field. Willie was always interested in his father's talents and wanted to become a harmonica player too. As a boy, he would sneak the harmonica out of his father's pocket and play it. At five years old, his first performance was with his brother's band singing Little Richard's 'Lucille' for the high school prom. The blues bug had bit him, and he continued his love of singing in the local juke joints and roadhouses in Memphis, TX. Club owners and patrons all loved him and dubbed him the 'Juke Joint King'. McFalls graduated from Memphis High School, and then studied music at nearby two-
