Hubert Sumlin RIP Dec 4

HEAVEN DONE CALLED ANOTHER BLUES STRINGER BACK HOME

 I heard last night that Hubert Sumlin had just passed away. I met Hubert at Antone's in the 70-80s

and like everyone else, was struck by how nice he was. Very complimentary and eager to jam with everyone.

I was fortunate enough to play with on stage at Antone's and play Killing Floor....with the rubber band, slinky strings of his guitar. His style was so very unique....stuck with me too. When I approach a solo, often I think of how

Hubert would play it and I would try to play it that way. It is not about being fast or loud...it is about timing...

the spaces in between the notes and the attack on the strings...that is Hubert. Few people also know that he played rhythm guitar on a lot of the classic Chuck Berry cuts for Chess records. He was a blues guitar player's player.....knew what to play at the right time and not get in the way. I am sure Howlin Wolf drilled that into his psychic mind. He laid the ground work for other flashier guitarist to become legends (SRV, Hendrix, Zappa).....I will always honor  Hubert's heaviness.

-Bill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlAdy7Kw1Cs&feature=endscreen&am...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlAdy7Kw1Cs&feature=endscreen&am...

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Permalink Reply by Bill Jones on December 7, 2011 at 12:06pm

Also GREAT video and history of HUBERT SUMLIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-x_bIRxXs&feature=related

Permalink Reply by Bill Jones on December 14, 2011 at 10:33am

Hey I just found an old cassette tape I made when Hubert sat in with my band, The Kingpins at Antone's

in Sept 1983. A great set...better than I remember...wonder if I should release it??

Permalink Reply by Abby Owen on December 16, 2011 at 5:28am

Wow! Cool.

Permalink Reply by Bill Jones on December 22, 2011 at 9:11am
By James Sullivan
December 8, 2011 3:50 PM ET
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Hubert Sumlin
Robert Knight Archive/Redferns

The funeral for Chicago blues great Hubert Sumlin, the longtime guitar player for Howlin' Wolf who died Sunday at age 80, will be paid for by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Sumlin's partner, Toni Ann, posted the news online. "God bless the Rolling Stones," she wrote.

The Stones have long acknowledged their debt to Sumlin, who was ranked at number 43 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists list.

Richards played on Sumlin's 2006 album, About Them Shoes. "Hubert was an incisive yet delicate blues player," Jagger said today, "a wonderful foil for Howlin' Wolf's growling vocal style . . . He was an inspiration to us all."

Sumlin will be buried in a private service in Homewood, Ill., on December 13th. A public viewing will be held on December 11th and a religious service occurs the following day at the Festa Memorial Funeral Home in Totowa, N.J.

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