Hubert Sumlin at Chicago Blues, N.Y. 2000 Part 2

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Hubert Sumlin (November 16, 1931 -- December 4, 2011) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer.[1] He was best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing was characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions".[2] Sumlin was listed as number 43 in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.[3]
Sumlin favored a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop guitar and a Louis Electric Model HS M12 amplifier.[citation needed]
Contents
[hide] 1 Biography
2 Discography 2.1 Albums
2.2 Videos
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Biography
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, Sumlin was raised in Hughes, Arkansas. He got his first guitar when he was eight years old.[4] As a boy, Sumlin first met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance. When Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, his long-time guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. Upon his arrival in Chicago, Wolf first hired Chicago guitarist Jody Williams, and in 1954 Wolf invited Sumlin to relocate to Chicago to play second guitar in his Chicago-based band. Williams left the band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent Sumlin to a classical guitar instructor at the Chicago Conservatory of Music for awhile to learn the keyboards and scales.[5] Sumlin played on the album Howlin' Wolf, also called The Rockin' Chair Album, which was named the third greatest guitar album of all time by Mojo magazine in 2004.[6][7]
Upon Wolf's death in 1976, Sumlin continued on with several other members of the late Howlin' Wolf's band under the name "The Wolf Pack" until about 1980. Sumlin has also recorded under his own name, beginning with a session recorded while touring Europe with Wolf in 1964. His final solo effort was About Them Shoes, released in 2004 by Tone-Cool Records. He underwent lung removal surgery the same year, yet Sumlin continued performing until just before his death.
Sumlin was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2008.[8] He was nominated for four Grammy Awards; in 1999 for the album Tribute to Howlin' Wolf with Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, and Colin Linden, in 2000 for Legends with Pinetop Perkins, in 2006 for his solo project About Them Shoes (which featured performances by Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Levon Helm, David Johansen and James Cotton) and in 2010 for his participation on Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Live! in Chicago. He won multiple Blues Music Awards, and was a judge for the fifth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[9]
He died on December 4, 2011, in a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey, of heart failure at the age of 80.[10] Mick Jagger and Keith Richards paid Sumlin's funeral costs.
Discography
Albums
1964
American Folk Blues
Amiga
850 043
Germany
1969
Hubert's "American" Blues ! (Scout Sc-4)
1974
Kings of Chicago Blues, Vol. 2
Disques Vogue
LDM 30175
France, recorded 1971
1976
Groove
Black & Blue
33.511
France, recorded 1975
1980
Gamblin' Woman
L + R
42.008
Germany, recorded 1980
1987
Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party
Black Top
BT-1036
US
1989
Heart & Soul
Blind Pig
BP-3389
US
1990
Healing Feeling
Black Top
BT-1053
US
1991
Blues Guitar Boss
JSP
239
UK, recorded 1990 in London
1994
Made in Argentina 1993
Blues Special
9501
Argentina, recorded 1993 in Buenos Aires with Emilion Villanueva and the Kansas City Boys
1994
I'm the Back Door Man
Blues Special
9506
Argentina, recorded 1993 in Buenos Aires
1996
Blues Classics
Bellaphon
82007
Germany, recorded 1964 in East Berlin
1998
I Know You
APO
2004
US
1998
Wake Up Call
Blues Planet
1116
US
1999
Pinetop Perkins & Hubert Sumlin: Legends
Telarc
83446
US
2003
Doing the Don't
Intuition
34252
Germany; Elliott Sharp's Terraplane, with Hubert Sumlin
2004
About Them Shoes
Tone-Cool/Artemis Records
51609
US, also Rykodisc RCD 17307 in the UK
Videos
2005
The Blues Guitar of Hubert Sumlin
Homespun Tapes