Letters: Hubert Sumlin obituary

Giles Oakley writes: The guitarist Hubert Sumlin (obituary, 7 December) belonged to that small elite of blues musicians who become well known to British fans even though they are sidemen in someone else's band (in Sumlin's case, Howlin' Wolf's).People I knew started talking about Sumlin's guitar-playing after the Rolling Stones covered Wolf's The Red Rooster, with its ominous, menacing guitar patterns. He gained a kind of word-of-mouth street cred rare among backing musicians and equalled perha...

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