Hubert Sumlin News

 
For 20 years, the Santa Cruz Blues Festival has given audiences a chance to ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
... the thrilling "Experience Hendrix" traveling act -- six great blues artists have died including songwriter Jerry Ragovoy, icon Etta James and respected musicians Hubert Sumlin, Howard Tate, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Michael Burks who died May 6.

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Brooks never felt he was in his father's shadow
Quad City Times
In February, he was part of a tribute concert at Harlem's Apollo Theatre for Chicago blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin, who died in December. He was onstage with the likes of the elder Brooks, Eric Clapton, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Jimmie Vaughan, ...


 
Toledo Blade
Tedeschi Trucks Band's live album drips with authenticity
Toledo Blade
Then it was off to the Apollo Theater to join Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and others in an all-star tribute to bluesman Hubert Sumlin, followed by a performance at the United Nations with jazz heavyweights Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis.
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Jazz-Quad
David Maxwell's Maximum Blues at Regattabar
Jazz-Quad
He has played with many of the greats including tours with Freddie King, Bonnie Raitt, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rodgers, Charley Musselwhite, Johnny Adams and Ronnie Earl; and gigs with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, ...


 
Review: Jack White magnetic at the Mayan
Los Angeles Times
... wearing black and surrounded by his all-female band the Peacocks (who were all dressed in white), tossed out riffs suggestive of everyone from Chuck Berry, Hubert Sumlin and Keith Richards to Jimmy Page, Johnny Thunders and Joe Strummer, ...

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Artistdirect.com
Buckcherry Talk "Wherever I Go"
Artistdirect.com
As a guitar player, Hubert Sumlin was my introduction to the blues through Howlin' Wolf. The first blues record I ever got was Howlin' Wolf's The Real Folk Blues. I've been listening to that a lot lately too. I got reintroduced to the record with ...


 
The ballad of Plainfield Slim
MyCentralJersey.com
Like Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Elvis Costello and so many other British and American blues-rockers, Shepherd courted the friendship and guidance of Totowa-based guitarist, the late Hubert Sumlin, who died last November.

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