Wilson developed into a dedicated student of early blues, writing a number of articles for the Broadside of Boston newspaper and the folk-revival magazine Little Sandy Review, including a piece on bluesman Robert Pete Williams. Thompson Scholarship Fund from the Town of Arlington. His academics earned him a National Merit Scholarship and the F.E. After graduating from Arlington High School in 1961, he majored in music at Boston University. Inspired by Little Walker, he took up harmonica, and soon after, the acoustic guitar after hearing a John Lee Hooker record. Wilson developed a fascination with blues music after a friend played a Muddy Waters record for him, The Best of Muddy Waters. At this time, Wilson was into traditional New Orleans music, and later, Classical European and Indian music. Later he formed a jazz ensemble with other musically oriented friends from school called Crescent City Hot Five. Some of Wilson's first efforts at performing music publicly came during his teen years when he learned trombone, teaching himself the instrumental parts from the aforementioned jazz record. He became engrossed in music as a child after his step mother bought him a jazz record. Wilson was highly sensitive, introverted, and intelligent, which set him apart from his peers. Alan Christie Wilson was born to John Wilson and Shirley Brigham in the Boston suburb of Arlington, MA on July 4 1943.
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