HUBERT!

Yes yes I know it's Big O again and when are you going to post any more from the Swappers vaults....but this is a doozie people!

Howlin' for Hubert

Big O say: Live at The Apollo Theater, New York, NY; February 24, 2012. Very good to excellent audience recording.

Hubert Sumlin played guitar with Howlin’ Wolf and was a huge inspiration for [The Rolling Stones].
- rollingstones.com

Chicago blues/electric blues guitarist and singer Hubert Sumlin died on December 4, 2011. He was 80; and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had insisted on picking up the full expenses for Hubert’s funeral.

Mick:
“Hubert was an incisive yet delicate blues player. He had a really distinctive and original tone, and was a wonderful foil for Howlin’ Wolf’s growling vocal style. On a song like “Going Down Slow” he could produce heart rending emotion, and on a piece like “Wang Dang Doodle”, an almost playful femininity. He was an inspiration to us all.”

Keith:
“With sorrow I received the news of Hubert’s passing. He put up a long hard fight. To me he was an uncle and a teacher, and all the guitar players must feel the same as myself. Warm, humorous and always encouraging, he was a gentleman of the first order. Miss him, yes, but we have his records. All my condolences to his family”.

UPDATE: Is there anybody out there?.........don't believe me? Don't know who Hubert is? Check these tasters here . . . .  a classic Sweet Home Chicago and a favourite song, Meet Me In The Bottom by the astonishingly gifted Derek Trucks and the wonderment that is Susan Tedeschi

Born in Chicago- Sweet Home Chicago - Ronnie Baker Brooks & Lonnie Brooks
Meet Me in The Bottom - Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi
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