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Upon Wolf's death in 1976, Sumlin continued playing with several other members of Wolf's band, as the Wolf Gang, until about 1980. He also recorded under his own name, beginning with a session from a tour of Europe with Wolf in 1964. His last solo album was
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guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of
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around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent him to a classical guitar instructor at the
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Argentina, recorded 1993 in Buenos Aires with Emilio Villanueva and the Kansas City Boys
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Sumlin performing in France, December 17, 1975, five days before recording
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Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, but his longtime guitarist
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chose not to join him. In Chicago, Wolf hired the guitarist
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on December 4, 2011, at the age of 80, in a hospital in
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Sumlin performing at the 2003 Long Beach Blues Festival
Long Beach Blues Festival
Greenwood, Mississippi
Wayne, New Jersey
Chicago blues
electric blues
www.hubertsumlinblues.com
Chicago blues
Howlin' Wolf
Rolling Stone
Greenwood, Mississippi
Hughes, Arkansas
Howlin' Wolf
Willie Johnson
Jody Williams
Muddy Waters
Chicago Conservatory of Music
keyboards
scales
Howlin' Wolf
Mojo

About Them Shoes
Stephen Dale Petit
Cracking The Code
Hubert Sumlin playing guitar at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1970, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Blues Foundation
Grammy Awards
Pinetop Perkins
Keith Richards

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