Though he was certainly capable of brilliantly fronting a band, remarkably versatile guitarist/harpist LOUIS MYERS (1929.09.18/Byhalia, MS - 1994.09.05) will forever be recognized first and foremost as a top-drawer sideman and founding member of the Aces, the band that backed harmonica wizard Little Walter on his immortal early Checker waxings. Along with his older brother David - another charter member of the Aces - Louis left Mississippi for Chicago with his family in 1941. Fate saw the family move next door to blues great Lonnie Johnson, whose complex riffs caught young Louis's ear.

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