Blues guitar great, a man that played precise guitar on Wolf classics like "Spoonful," "Smokestack Lightning," "Wang Dang Doodle," "Back Door Man" and "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)."

From Jeff Beck, "One of life's greats". The Rolling Stones had Sumlin join them onstage at Madison Square Gardens.

In his career he played with Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, B.B. King and many more.

It is reported that Richards had been paying his medical bill in recent years. Sumlin born in Mississippi, raised in Arkanasa and would later move to Chicago, died at a hospital in New Jersey on Sunday.

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RIP

Rest In Peace Hubert

I always get a chuckle out of him leaving Wolf to join Muddy. Muddy's chauffeur James had to grab his Amp & Axe, because Hubert was scared of Wolf.

Hubert Sumlin: Raised by Wolf

Hubert Sumlin was starting out. Howlin’ Wolf was starting over. Together, they changed the blues forever.

Hubert Sumlin is many years and many miles away from the dusty roads of Hughes, Arkansas and the moment that changed his life forever, but he remembers it clearly.


“The first time I saw Wolf, he passed by our house going to this place in Arkansas to play,” Sumlin says. “I was really young, probably 11 or 12. I knew where he was playing and I hitchhiked about five miles to the Mississippi River to see him. I crawled into the place and all these ladies was standing up and I couldn’t see, so I went to the door and they threw me out. And I crawled back in under these peoples’ legs and they threw me out again. So I went around and stacked up some Coca-Cola crates that they had in the back so I could see. Somebody snatched them crates and I fell down right onto Wolf’s head. He said, ‘Ladies, bring my son here a chair.’ He called me his son, man. He sat me down between him and Willie Johnson and played. He wouldn’t let me get up, wouldn’t let me get a drink, do anything. When I went to the bathroom, he sent somebody with me and then set me back down. He said, ‘Son, you’re gonna sit and listen and then I’m gonna take you back home to your momma.’ He was like a father to me. I stayed with him for 25 years.”

Courtesy of "The Big Get-Even"

-Ari Surdoval

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R.I.P.

Members of The Rolling Stones pay tribute to Sumlin:

Mick Jagger: "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 "Goin' 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 Richards: "With sorrow I received the news of Hubert's pasing. 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. One love, Hubert".

Sumlin influences Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and may more

Oh man.

Wow, I'm glad I gotta chance to see him live.

And one of the reasons why I never lumped the Stones in with all the

other plagiarizing, white bluesmen from the 60s is because of their

authenticity; they always knew where their influences came from.

Them picking up Sumlin's funeral bill is dope.

Just saw this. Looks like the Rolling Stones are picking up the tab to pay for the funeral.

Bless them

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