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Hubert Sumlin dies at 80; guitarist shaped Howlin' Wolf's sound
![When Howlin' Wolf romped through "Wang Dang Doodle" or thundered in "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy," the snarling guitar that accompanied him belonged to one of the greatest bluesmen to pick up the instrument: Hubert Sumlin.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66681407-09215352-187105.jpg "When Howlin' Wolf romped through "Wang Dang Doodle\" or thundered in \"Three Hundred Pounds of Joy,\" the snarling guitar that accompanied him belonged to one of the greatest bluesmen to pick up the instrument: Hubert Sumlin.")
When Howlin' Wolf romped through "Wang Dang Doodle" or thundered in "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy," the snarling guitar that accompanied him belonged to one of the greatest bluesmen to pick up the instrument: Hubert Sumlin.
The cry of Sumlin's guitar &#...Tags: James Cotton, Keith Richards, Music Industry, Hubert Sumlin, Chicago Tribune
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Bob Hare dies at 80; owner of Hermosa Beach coffeehouse that drew Beat artists
When Bob Hare opened his Hermosa Beach coffeehouse in 1958, he called it the Insomniac because it was open until 3 a.m.
He brewed his coffee in a 300-pound dry-cleaning boiler and served it to such high-profile members of the Beat Generation as Allen...Tags: Music, Hermosa, Music Industry, Los Angeles Times, Artists
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Singing the supermarket blues
What is it that turns some perfectly normal people into rude, unconcerned, uncaring, inattentive zombies when they visit the supermarket?
Why do some people abuse the use of handicap parking labels just so they can park closer to the entrance of the...Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Passenger Cars
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Bob Burnett dies at 71; member of folk group the Highwaymen
The members of the folk group the Highwaymen were freshmen in the same fraternity at Wesleyan University in Connecticut when they came together to perform at a campus party in 1958.
By their senior year, the quintet had a No. 1 single with their haunting...Tags: Johnny Cash, Folk (genre), Los Angeles Times, Music, Entertainment
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Etta James dies at 73; acclaimed blues and R&B singer
Etta James, the earthy blues and R&B singer whose anguished vocals convinced generations of listeners that she would rather go blind than see her love leave, then communicated her joy upon finding that love at last, died Friday. She was 73.
She died at...Tags: Concerts, Prostitution, World War II (1939-1945), Music Industry, Customs and Tradition
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Artist to debut documentary at film festival
Wyland seethed. Five days after an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig in April 2010 killed 11 oil platform workers, the Laguna Beach marine artist was in a boat in Gulf of Mexico waters off the Louisiana coast, surveying the environmental...
Tags: Conservation, Movies, Taj Mahal, Music Industry, Romance (genre)
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Robbie Limon's Hank Williams tribute show comes to Pa.
amyc@herald-mail.comEditor's note: In the original version of this story, information about the two Hank Williams shows performed by Robbie Limon was incorrect. Limon performed in “Lost Highway: The Life and Legend of Hank Williams Sr.,” in 2011 at Totem Pole...Tags: Concerts, Genres, Prince (music artist), Music Industry, Facebook
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'He's the last of the bluesmen'
He was the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and -- for an extraordinary 80-plus years -- the voice of the Delta blues.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards picked cotton and pulled corn on Mississippi Delta plantations from age 9, living the hard...Tags: Concerts, Music, Joe Williams, Willie Dixon, Music Industry
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Is this the twilight of blues music?
They buried Hubert Sumlin two weeks ago at Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery in Homewood, laying to rest the man whose ferocious guitar riffs galvanized Howlin' Wolf's classic recordings of the 1950s and '60s.
Just before Sumlin's casket was lowered...Tags: Concerts, Chicago Loop, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jazz (genre), Dining and Drinking
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Jake, Elwood and Huggy, all singing the Euro blues
![THEATER REVIEW: "The All New Original Tribute to the Blues Brothers" at the Auditorium Theatre <img src="/images/star.png"/><img src="/images/star.png"/>½ <br>So at the Auditorium Theatre, there's an Australian Elwood, a British Jake and a European cover band.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-07/63055113-07080348.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "The All New Original Tribute to the Blues Brothers\" at the Auditorium Theatre <img src=\"/images/star.png\"/><img src=\"/images/star.png\"/>½ <br>So at the Auditorium Theatre, there's an Australian Elwood, a British Jake and a European cover band.")
So at the Auditorium Theatre – the 3,929-seat Auditorium Theatre – one currently finds an Australian Elwood Blues, a British Jake Blues and aEuropean cover band, all working, along with a trio of women called the Bluettes, for Dutch producers....Tags: Chicago Hotels, Comedy (genre), Music Industry, Entertainment, Metal and Mineral
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21st century blues -- can an ancestral art form survive?
You can't find the blues on radio very easily these days, unless you hunt low down on the dial in the small hours of the morning.
Same with TV -- a vast wasteland, as far as real blues is concerned.
Record stores -- remember those? -- no longer can...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Michael Jackson, Willie Dixon, Music Industry
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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
![David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and had been in declining health with heart problems.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-08/64346651-29221243-187105.jpg "David "Honeyboy\" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and had been in declining health with heart problems.")
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and...Tags: Joe Williams, Willie Dixon, Mississippi, Music Industry, Greenwood
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