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Can't shake blues: Sumlin returns from semi-retirement; Familiar tunes Hometown blues legend Hubert Sumlin may not be a household name, but odds are that you've heard a few of the blues and rock classics Sumlin has played on. Recordings that feature Sumlin's patented Chicago blues style include: "Killin' Floor": A traditional blues number immortalized by Howlin' Wolf, whom Sumlin backed for 27 years. "School Days": A popular rock song by Chuck Berry that ranks among Berry's second tier of classics, right below "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven." "Dust My Broom": Another traditional some say early 20th-century Delta blues legend Robert Johnson actually penned it. Wolf ran with it and made it his own with much of the credit belonging to Sumlin.
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Entering the home of blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin is like
wandering into a blues exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The walls on the main floor of his modest Milwaukee northwest side
bungalow display the usual family portraits alongside a half-dozen or
so famous blues musicians whom Sumlin's encountered during his
50-plus-year career.
But it's only when you venture to the basement and take in the
full exhibit every wall papered from floor-to-ceiling with snapshots
o...
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HUBERT SUMLIN
The Independent Weekly
; Some people would do anything to see Howlin' Wolf perform. In 1942, Hubert Sumlin was 10. He snuck up to a joint where Wolf was playing and stood on a crate to peer through the window. The crate collapsed, sending Sumlin through the window and nearly into Wolf's lap. Impressed with the boy's nerve,
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BLUESMAN HUBERT SUMLIN TURNS 67 BY TURNING UP THE HEAT A quiet legend's rockin' year
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; "Hubert is the heaviest, most original guitar player I've ever heard in my life." Stevie Ray Vaughan Hubert Sumlin is a closet legend. To the general public, he's essentially unknown; among blues fans, he's acknowledged as one of the true greats. That quote from the late Stevie Ray Vaughan is not
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HUBERT SUMLIN PAGE 6
Roanoke Times & World News
; ... smoking. "But I'm OK now, man. I come to find out that everything is OK, right now," he said. "And I feel good!" That's good news for music fans. Guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Page have claimed ...
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Sweet home Chicago beckons to Sumlin
Chicago Sun-Times
; Hubert Sumlin Saturday, 10 p.m. Buddy Guy's Legends, 754 S. Wabash $8 (312) 427-0333, or Ticketmaster, 559-1212 This is the way it goes in the home of the blues: Hubert Sumlin was the thunderbolt lead guitarist in the legendary Howlin' Wolf Band from 1953 until Wolf's death in 1976. Sumlin also
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Sumlin missed a Grammy but always gets respect
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; IAN SPELLING, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-24-2006 Sumlin missed a Grammy but always gets respect By IAN SPELLING, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD Date: 02-24-2006, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions WHO: Hubert Sumlin. WHAT: Blues. WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday. WHERE: B.B. King
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Sweet home Chicago beckons Sumlin back
Chicago Sun-Times
; Hubert Sumlin Saturday, 10 p.m. Buddy Guy's Legends, 754 S. Wabash $8 (312) 427-0333, or Ticketmaster, 559-1212 This is the way it goes in the home of the blues: Hubert Sumlin was the thunderbolt lead guitarist in the legendary Howlin' Wolf Band from 1953 until Wolf's death in 1976. Sumlin also
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Can't shake blues: Sumlin returns from semi-retirement; Familiar tunes Hometown blues legend Hubert Sumlin may not be a household name, but odds are that you've heard a few of the blues and rock classics Sumlin has played on. Recordings that feature Sumlin's patented Chicago blues style include: "Killin' Floor": A traditional blues number immortalized by Howlin' Wolf, whom Sumlin backed for 27 years. "School Days": A popular rock song by Chuck Berry that ranks among Berry's second tier of classics, right below "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven." "Dust My Broom": Another traditional some say early 20th-century Delta blues legend Robert Johnson actually penned it. Wolf ran with it and made it his own with much of the credit belonging to Sumlin.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Entering the home of blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin is like wandering into a blues exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The walls on the main floor of his modest Milwaukee northwest side bungalow display the usual family portraits alongside a half-dozen or so famous blues musicians whom
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Praised and admired guitarist will bring his show to Nags Head.(Y)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: JOHN HARPER by john harper the virginian-pilot Hubert Sumlin may not be a household name. But in blues and rock circles, he's the genuine article. Sumlin, 73, who performs Thursday at Kelly's Restaurant and Tavern in Nags Head, has played with Pinetop Perkins, the Rolling Stones, Louis
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Bluesman takes it easy after cancer surgery
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; 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
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Folk/Blues; Sumlin, guitar guru of Hendrix, can't catch a break; Ritter's future may be 'Golden'.(Scene)
The Boston Herald
; For several decades, Hubert Sumlin has been a favorite blues guitarist of the guitar gods. Both Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan called Sumlin their favorite. So when Sumlin recorded an album two years ago with such famous fans as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Levon Helm, he naturally thought
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