Greg O'Brien with Hubert Sumlin

HUBERT SUMLIN BIOGRAPHY by Bob Margolin
When Hubert Sumlin plays guitar he takes you to his World of Blues Feeling -- from despair to ecstasy, from delicate grace to raw power, from lost to found. Though he’s influenced and inspired many of the most famous guitar players, Hubert owns the magic. His style is original and personal and instantly recognizable. What kind of man can make or break your heart with his guitar?

Hubert’s website is where you’d expect to find the historical and professional facts of his life, but that kind of writing could easily miss Hubert’s gift to us and how he stirs our deepest emotions both musically and personally. I’m writing this from the perspective of a friend, a musician who sometimes performs with Hubert, and a Blues guitar player who appreciates him. This is neither an objective, journalistic biography nor promotional hype, but it will tell you who Hubert is.
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Greg O'Brien with Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds

For the past 30 years, The Fabulous Thunderbirds have been the quintessential American band. The group's distinctive and powerful sound, influenced by a diversity of musical styles, manifested itself into a unique musical hybrid via such barnburners as "Tuff Enuff" and "Wrap It Up". Co-founder Kim Wilson, the sole original member, still spearheads the group as it evolves into its newest incarnation.

"We started as a straight blues band", vocalist and harmonica player Wilson says. "We now incorporate a mixture of a lot of different styles. We're an American music band and we're much higher energy than we were before."
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Greg O'Brien playing with C.J.Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band

 

Born and raised away from the Louisiana bayou in the housing projects of Port Arthur, Texas, C. J. Chenier is the son of zydeco legend, Grammy-winner Clifton Chenier. As a youngster he was aware of his father’s music, but also liked James Brown and Funkadelic, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Chenier learned saxophone early on and as a teenager played in black Top 40 bands in Port Arthur. He studied music in college and dreamed of making it as a jazz or funk player.
Then, one week before his 21st birthday in 1978, his father asked him to bring his sax and join The Red Hot Louisiana Band. “I didn’t know any of the songs they played,” he recalls, “but the guys helped me out and brought me along. And then one day the music hit me, and I knew this was what I wanted to do.” With the death of his father, Chenier inherited The Red Hot Louisiana Band, as well as his father’s accordion, which he began to play.
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Greg and C.J. with Terry Anderson


 

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