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"Son, you keep your head on straight and you're going places .” – B. B. King to Wes Jeans following appearance at the Oct. 2003, Strand Theater in Shreveport.

It's easy to forget that this East Texas guitar-god won a 1996 Jimi Hendrix guitar showdown in Austin less than a year after picking up the axe. Wes Jeans wears the honor displayed in 2004 by Guitar Player Magazine as one of the nation's Top Young Guns. He appeared in the documentary "Solis Bodies" along with Johnny Lang. But blues guitar success is a long and elusive trail that leads backwards rather than forward; so, even young studs still give wide clearance to B. B. King, Buddy Flett, Chris Duarte, Buddy Miles, Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa and Hubert Sumlin. …and Wes has swapped licks with each of them at one time or another. The road is long and sometimes brutal, but Wes still has time on his side. K. Reagh proba- bly sums up this analogy far more eloquently - "Wes Jeans is no stranger to the blood, sweat and tears it takes to make it in this rough genre.” This 26 year-old is in his eleventh year of highway-pounding blues playing and singing. His travels have taken him to the East Coast to the West Coast. "Playing this genre is not for anyone with thin skin. Blues is the underdog and it's up to us to forge a sound which is ours but reflective of our heroes and bring it to the forefront.” Back for a second year to headline the T- Bone’s “Texas Young Guns” show, Wes Jeans will set you on fire! TOMMY’S BAR-B-QUE

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