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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: urth on December 05, 2011, 12:06:08 AM

Title: RIP Hubert Sumlin, 80
Post by: urth on December 05, 2011, 12:06:08 AM

Howlin' Wolf's guitarist died of heart failure in a hospital in New Jersey.

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/entertainment/9248877-421/bluesman-hubert-sumlin-guitarist-for-howlin-wolf-dies-at-80.html

Title: Re: RIP Hubert Sumlin, 80
Post by: Wayback on December 05, 2011, 10:02:00 AM

Quote from: urth on December 05, 2011, 12:06:08 AM

Howlin' Wolf's guitarist died of heart failure in a hospital in New Jersey.
http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/entertainment/9248877-421/bluesman-hubert-sumlin-guitarist-for-howlin-wolf-dies-at-80.html

Shray and I saw him perform as part of that Experience Hendrix all-star guitarists tour at Masonic in 2009. 
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hubert-sumlin-20111210,0,2854978.story
and NY Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/arts/music/hubert-sumlin-master-of-blues-guitar-dies-at-80.htm