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Bluesman takes it easy after cancer surgery
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Bluesman takes it easy after cancer surgery
By GEMMA TARLACH gtarlach@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Blues legend and longtime Milwaukee resident Hubert Sumlin is
recovering at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
following the removal of a lung Thursday for treatment of lung
cancer.
Sumlin, who turns 71 Saturday, was breathing on his own and in
good spirits Sunday night, when fellow Milwaukee bluesman Jeff
Dagenhardt s...
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