JohnO Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Howlin' Wolf's longtime guitarist (and later solo artist) Hubert Sumlin passed away yesterday, age 80. Ranked # 43 in the latest Rolling Stone list of 100 greatest guitarists. A very unique player, and an all-time great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 He certainly was a unique player. RIP Hubert. Go play with the Howlin' one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 In honor of Hubert, I've been playing a bootleg of his June 2004 show from the Chicago Blues Festival, where he backs David Johansen doing a set of The Wolf's greatest hits. An oddball pairing which works well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianchick Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Christmas Angels...well sort of for Huberts family...http://blog.rock.inmusic.ca/2011/12/rolling-stones-pay-for-bluesmans-funeral.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 Not surprising at all. Mick, Keef and the boys have always felt that they owe a huge debt to the Chicago bluesmen. . . .their band's name came from a Muddy Waters song - one of Hubert's employers over the years (after one of the hundred or so times that Howlin' Wolf fired him). I've personally seen Muddy, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, and Luther Allison, all from Chicago, opening for the Stones over the past 40+ years. Keith played on Hubert's last studio album, and Charlie and Bill Wyman recorded with him back in the 70s on Howlin Wolf's London album. The band were long-time friends of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Don't know of him...Was he as talented as Folgelberg, John? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 Who's Fogelberg? Sounds like a lawyer or maybe a CPA. . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Sumlin, though well respected, could never write/arrange/produce/play multi-instruments/sing lead and backing vocals on a song that makes you feel like you are swaying back and forth on a lobster ship...Hubert just didn't have it in him...and he would be the first to tell you that.Heck, even Marty McFly can play a cool blues riff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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