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(born William Arnold, September 16,1935, Chicago, Ill.)

A disciple of JOHN LEE ''SONNY BOY'' WILLIAMSON, Billy Boy Arnold is a journeyman harp player and vocalist whose best recordings were made for Vee-Jay Records in the mid-1950s. As a youth, Arnold copiously initated Williamson's harp style. Later, however, after also being influenced by LITTLE WALTER and JUNIOR WELLS, Arnold developed more of an original harp sound, though he never really strayed too far from his Sonny Boy roots.
Arnold played on Chicago street corners with BO DIDDLEY before making his recording debut at age seventeen on the Cool label. However, it was the songs he cut with Vee-Jay from 1955 to 1957, principallly the tune ''I Wish You Would'', that gave Arnold credibility in the Chicago blues community and enabled him to perform alongside artists such as HOWLIN' WOLF, MUDDY WATERS, and EARL HOOKER in the late '50s.
Arnold did some occasional recording in the '60s and was a regular performer in Chicago blues clubs, but nothing he cut matched his '50s work. In 1975 he went to Europe with Bo Diddley, JOHNNY ''GUITAR'' WATSON, and other bluesmen as part of a blues package tour. Subsequent trips to Europe led to recording of the album 'Ten Million Dollars', for the French Blue Phoenix label in 1984. Arnold continued to work Chicago blues clubs in the late '80s. In 1992 he performed at the San Francisco Blues Festival. He continues to reside in Chicago