Song of the Day: ‘Killing Floor,’ Hubert Sumlin and David Johansen
A gentle soul who was responsible for some of the toughest blues guitar licks ever played, Hubert Sumlin died on Sunday, at the age of 80. Sumlin grew up in Mississippi and Alabama and rose to fame in the Chicago blues scene, backing Howlin’ Wolf, but has lived in Totowa in recent years, and died in Wayne, of heart failure.Sumlin was a revered member of the New York/New Jersey blues scene, and over the past decade musicians here, and elsewhere, have presented many benefits to help him with his medical bills.
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Song of the Day: ‘Killing Floor,’ Hubert Sumlin and David Johansen