Hubert Sumlin News

It was supposed to have been a fund-raiser for Lance Ong a ' a high-profile Maywood musician and composer with a high-expense problem a ' cancer.

The highly influential guitarist Hubert Sumlin performs at Asbury Park's Langosta Lounge tonight, accompanied by locals Stringbean and the Stalkers.

David Johansen could use a break. The veteran vocalist has been touring constantly with a reconstituted version of the New York Dolls since 2006.

HUBERT SUMLIN is a national treasure. Not just because he played with Howlin' Wolf for almost 25 years, including on what is to my mind the best blues record ever made, 1962's Howlin' Wolf .

What: Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday for U2's concert tour stop in Oakland.

When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me -- drolly, languidly, literarily -- that his next writing project was about "a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman" on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.

Michael Burke, a Camden native and blues musician. - No matter what name it goes by, blues fans around the nation know that once a year Helena-West Helena presents a festival that continues to draw them like flies to honey.

WOODSTOCK - Since it opened Wednesday, the 2009 edition of the Woodstock Film Festival has celebrated star power that fuels box office and artistic success from both sides of the camera, yet doesn't shy away from the challenge of an independent film.

For more than 25 years, Hubert Sumlin played with blues icons Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Willie Dixon, as well as The Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry.

Before blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin became legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf's lead guitar player, he was a young boy fiddling around with a piece of string his brother had nailed to a wall.

The West Virginia Power and the West Virginia Blues Society are teaming up for the first Yuengs & Wings Blues Thing, which will feature four blues acts.

Former Howlin' Wolf guitarist Huber Sumlin, a member of the Blues Music Hall of Fame, is one of the acts that will appear at Sunday's Yuengs and Wings Blues Things at Appalachian Power Park, sponsored by the West Virginia Blues Society.

The stories alone are worth checking out. Pepe Castro, of the classic late-'60s band the Blues Magoos, tells a great one about a tour with the Who.

It might seem contradictory to be described as unsung when you make Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists of All-Time list or when Eric Clapton cites your playing as an influence.

It might seem contradictory to be described as unsung when you make Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists of All-Time list or when Eric Clapton cites your playing as an influence.

It might seem contradictory to be described as unsung when you make Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists of All-Time list or when Eric Clapton cites your playing as an influence.

Folks who favor stylistic extravagance won't cotton to Hubert Sumlin. Now 77, the guitarist made his niche complementing rather than competing with the outsized voice and talent of the legendary Howlin' Wolf, who was a blues shouter, par excellence.

One night in 1979 at Chicago's B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted club, blues harmonica player Jerry Portnoy took Barrelhouse Chuck aside and told the young pianist to follow him and not say a word.

This yeara s Eureka Springs Blues Weekend, man, what a great show. Charles and Lori Ragsdell set up a brilliant festival, and volunteers came from all over the country to help out.

Here's a shot for the blues today - I'm down to the end of my favorite photos from Memphis in May, but I have lots of nice ones left from the Beale Street Music Festival, which I will spread out over the course of some Mondays to come.