Hubert Sumlin
Argentina
1993

  1. Hubert's Shuffle
  2. Blues for Argentina
  3. Killing Floor
  4. Sitting on Top of The World
  5. Howlin' For My Baby
  6. Blues in My Time
  7. Don't Worry
  8. Road of No Return
  9. Mannish Boy
10. Rockin' With My Baby
11. I'll Help You
12. Last Night
13. I Did What I Could
14. Chicken Shack

Hubert (Guitar, vocals)
Emilio Villanueva (sax)
Leon Almara(Guitar)
German Weidemer (Keyboards)
Cacho Gallardo (Bass)
Adrian Flores, (drums)
Chupete Milone -  ?

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Quiet and unassuming off the bandstand, Hubert Sumlin developed an incendiary guitar style that provided the perfect foil for the legendary Howlin’ Wolf. The Wolf was Sumlin's imposing mentor for more than two decades, and it proved a mutually beneficial relationship. Sumlin's twisting, darting, unpredictable guitar lines energized the Wolf's 1960s Chess sides, including such classics as “Wang Dang Doodle,” “Howlin’ for My Darlin,’” “The Red Rooster," "Backdoor Man," "Shake for Me," "Killing Floor," "Smokestack Lightnin" and "Sittin' on Top of the World."

The youngest of 13 children, Sumlin was born in 1931 in Greenwood, Miss., and grew up near West Memphis, Ark. When he was 8 years old, Hubert's mother invested an entire week's pay—$5—on Hubert’s first guitar. In his teens, Sumlin briefly hooked up with another young blues musician with a promising future, harmonica ace James Cotton. But he soon got the offer to join Howlin’ Wolf’s band in Chicago in 1954. Then began what was to become one the longest and most legendary partnerships in the blues world.

Although theirs was a sometimes tempestuous relationship, Sumlin remained loyal to the Wolf until the big man’s death in 1976. In the interim, Wolf and Sumlin changed the sound of American music and helped create rock and roll. Sumlin’s. Clapton proved his respect by refusing to do the Chess Records London Howlin' Wolf Sessions unless Sumlin was present. Sumlin’s recordings with Wolf of "The Red Rooster," "Backdoor Man," "Shake for Me," "Killing Floor," "Smokestack Lightnin" and "Sittin' on Top of the World" inspired cover versions by Cream, the Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.