Hubert Sumlin
Hubert Sumlin ( born November 16, 1931 in Greenwood, Mississippi; † December 4, 2011 in Wayne, New Jersey ) was an American blues guitarist who was best known as a member of the band of Howlin 'Wolf.
Life
Sumlin was born in Mississippi, but moved into the age of eight to Hughes, Arkansas and grew up there. Also the age of eight he began playing the guitar his older brother, until his mother shortly afterwards spent a full week's pay and bought him your own Guitar. Sumlin began his musical career with the harmonica virtuoso James Cotton, with whom he played in juke joints, but also in a radio broadcast and that the sender KWM in West Memphis. These radio broadcasts Sumlin Howlin 'Wolf met, which also occurred there, and with whom he went to Chicago in 1954. On stage, he improved his technique and soon took over the lead guitar in the band. In the early years in Chicago Sumlin was temporarily lured away by Muddy Waters for his band, but returned to Howlin 'Wolf, as he tours with the Waters was too tiring.
Hubert Sumlin guitar is heard in several of the hits of Howlin 'Wolf, including Wang Dang Doodle, Shake for Me, Hidden Charms, Three Hundred Pounds of Joy and Killing Floor. The guitar playing Sumlin is referred to by Bob Margolin who is a guitarist in Sumlin biography as " between intensive and legendary". Sumlin stayed with Howlin 'Wolf until his death in 1976. Between, he also appeared solo or with other musicians, such as in the European tour in 1964, when he was playing with Sunnyland Slim and Willie Dixon in East Berlin. In 2008 he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
In 1980 he left the Wolf Gear that occurred after Howlin ' Wolf's death under the direction of Eddie Shaw continues to pursue a solo career. His legendary status as a guitarist is also evident that many famous musicians Sumlin disclosures as decisive influence - including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. The Rolling Stones, which from its beginnings to Howlin ' Wolf and his band had admired, attended in 1965 that the Howlin ' Wolf band with Sumlin on the show Shindig came to their first and only appearance on U.S. television ( the Stones had Howlin ' Wolf's song Little Red Rooster gecovert ). In January 2003, the Rolling Stones, Hubert Sumlin invited to play together with them in Madison Square Garden. Keith Richards produced and adopted in 2000 an album with him because he really wanted to play Blues with Hubert Sumlin. The album was released in 2003.
Game style
Hubert Sumlin guitar playing was at first heavily influenced by the acoustic Delta blues, and Sumlin learned early on the example of Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson and then made first in West Memphis with Howlin 'Wolf, and especially after his move to Chicago the transition to electric Chicago blues with. Howlin Wolf, who himself had played with Patton and Johnson, gave him the mid-1950s his first electric guitar, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop.
Sumlin played mainly fingerstyle, but enriched this style to unusual improvisations and simultaneously highly controlled play in apparently wild pounding on the strings. Bob Margolin described his style as follows: "If Hubert plays the guitar, he takes you into his world of the blues, from despair to the exuberance of the finest grace to the grossest violence of All Gone to Ever After His style is completely. original and even his own way and are at all times. "
Awards
Hubert Sumlin in 2008 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame Blues Foundation. He was also a judge on the fifth Independent Music Awards.
The Rolling Stone lists Sumlin number 43 of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
Death
Hubert Sumlin died at the age of 80 years 4 December 2011 of heart failure at a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey. Into old age, he was still performed live, such as in the summer of 2010, Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival.
Discography
Albums
- 2005: Blues Guitar of Hubert Sumlin