Detroit Junior

Detroit Junior

Detroit Junior

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Top Songs

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If I Hadn't Been High
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Money Tree
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How Blue Can You Get [live]
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Last Call
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Buy Some Love

Albums

  • Take Out the Time

    Aug 2006 • 12 songs

  • Live At The Toledo Museum Of Art
  • Turn Up The Heat

    Jan 1995 • 12 songs

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Detroit Junior

Biography

Emery Williams Jr. is a living link to the great Chicago blues piano players of the 1940s and 1950s. Born on October 26, 1931, in Haynes, AR, Williams was given the name Detroit Junior when be began recording on his own in the 1960s. As a child, Williams was moved around quite a bit, as his family relocated from Arkansas to Memphis, then to Pularski, IL, and finally to Flint, MI, where Williams lived with his grandmother. It was there that he began playing keyboards, learning on his grandmother's organa (a parlor instrument that was part organ, part piano). Soon he was playing...
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