As a youth in eastern Tennessee where country & western music still prevails, WALLACE COLEMAN (1936/Morristown, TN - ) was instead captivated by the sounds he heard late at night from Nashville’s WLAC….the Blues. The sounds haunted him by day where, he says, "I would be sittin’ in class and hear the Howlin’ Wolf singin’ just as clear in my head…" It was on WLAC that Coleman first heard those who would become Blues Legends and greatest musical influences: Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters.

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