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Billy Boy's blues dream
Once upon a time in Chicago there was a young boy named Billy who wanted to play harmonica just like his idol John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson that he had heard on records. So, after discovering John Lee lived in his own neighborhood and where, he found the courage to knock on his door. Williamson welcomed the boy in and gave him a harmonica lesson. The boy came back twice for more lessons but unfortunately this mentoring was cut short when Williamson was brutally murdered one night in the street in June 1948. The boy was Billy Boy Arnold, a pure Chicagoan born in the Windy city in 1935. Four years later, in 1952 at only seventeen, he recorded his first 78-rpm single, "Hello Stranger"/"I Ain't Got No Money", for the obscure Cool label with the Bob Carter's Orchestra. Meantime, Arnold was playing on street-corners with a guitarist friend named Ellas McDaniel.
