Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party [FLAC] e313

Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party

Artist: Hubert Sumlin
Album: Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party
Genre: blues
Source: CD
Ripper: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality: Lossless, (avg. compression: 56 %)
Channels: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Ripped by: e313 on 12/4/2011
Included: NFO, PLS, M3U, LOG, CUE
Covers: Front


Tracklisting

1. Hidden Charms - 1:56
2. West Side Soul - 2:29
3. A Soul That's Been Abused - 7:17
4. Letter To My Girlfriend - 2:19
5. How Can You Leave Me, Little Girl - 4:48
6. Can't Call You No More - 2:45
7. Blue Guitar - 5:18
8. Down In The Bottom - 2:46
9. Poor Me, Pour Me - 2:39
10. Living The Blues - 4:41

Playing Time: 37:03
Total Size: 205.62 MB

Personnel

Hubert Sumlin - vocals (tracks 5, 10), guitar
Michael "Mudcat" Ward - Bass
Greg Piccolo - vocals, tenor saxophone (track 4)
Ron Levy - vocals, piano, organ (track 9)
Mighty Sam McClain - vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8)
Ronnie Earl - guitar, slide guitar
Jerry Portnoy - harmonica
Doug James - baritone saxophone (track 3)
Bob Enos - trumpet
David Maxwell - piano (tracks 6 to 8)
John Rossi - drums

Audio Remasterer: Randy Perry
Audio Mixers: Hammond Scott; Larry Wallace
Recording information: Newbury Sound, Boston, MA - 10/1986; The House - 10/1986



Hubert Sumlin is best known as the ultimate Chicago blues guitarist, the driving force behind Muddy Waters's band, but he's had a distinguished career of his own as well. His BLUES PARTY is a 1986 affair where he's joined by some talented bluesmen of a younger generation, including Ronnie Earl and Mighty Sam McClain. Sumlin and his pals tear it up Chicago-style with all the fire you'd expect from this blues master.



Hubert Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He was best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing was characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions". Sumlin was listed as number 43 in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Sumlin favored a Louis Electric Model HS M12 amplifier and a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop guitar.

Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, Sumlin was raised in Hughes, Arkansas. When he was six years old, he got his first guitar. As a boy, Sumlin first met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance. When Howlin' Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, his long-time guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. Upon his arrival in Chicago, Wolf first hired Chicago guitarist Jody Williams, and in 1954 Wolf invited Sumlin to relocate to Chicago to play second guitar in his Chicago-based band. Williams left the band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist in Wolf's band, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career.

Along the way, Sumlin played on such enduring Wolf tracks as 'Smokestack Lightning,' 'Killing Floor' and 'Spoonful.' The latter two cuts were famously covered by Jimi Hendrix and Cream, respectively, two of the many rock acts to draw inspiration from his fiery fretwork.

Jimmy Page was also an avowed fan, as was Stevie Ray Vaughan, who once gave Sumlin a vintage Rickenbacker guitar. According to the New York Times, Keith Richards helped him pay medical bills, which were likely considerable, since he had a lung removed in 2004.

He died on December 4, 2011, in a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey, of heart failure at the age of 80. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards paid Sumlin's funeral costs.

- from wikipedia and spinner.com



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