LITTLE SONNY
“I couldn’t go on stage and do a good job if I were high,” he states emphatically.
Willis “Little Sonny” Aaron does not easily fit the mold into which most bluesmen are cast. He’s younger — not quite forty — and neither smokes, drinks nor does he partake of the weed or any other ‘dope’. “I couldn’t go on stage and do a good job if I were high,” he states emphatically. “If I’ve got an audience, that’s all the alcohol I need.”
His origins, though, do parallel all too closely those of many contemporary bluesmen. Born in a one-room shack in Greensboro, Alabama, much of his childhood was spent with an empty stomach. He never saw his father, and his mother would get upset when he listened to blues programs on the radio. She considered it “the old people’s way, something dirty”, yet she was the one who bought him his first nickel harmonicas.
