"Actor: Hubert Sumlin"

• Chicago Blues Jam Vol. 4 Hubers Sumlin / Rod Piazza | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £8.07   |  Saving you £0.92 (11.40%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Volume 4 of a stunning collection of live blues recordings from Buddy Guys' `Legends' club in Chicago recorded in 1994. Buddy Guy's Legends has become as celebrated as its namesake for providing Chicago with the highest quality blues talent to be seen anywhere. From the Monday jam sessions to the constant flow of world-class talent weekends Legends is a required stop for soul-stirring Blues and barbeque. Chicago Blues Jam brings you a slice of this legendary stage with interviews and commentary by Buzz Kilman. Hubert Sumlin: One of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century. Sumlin is credited as being a major influence to guitar greats from Eric Clapton to Frank Zappa. Sumlin spent years playing with Howlin' Wolf forming the most legendary partnership the blues world has ever known and changing American music forever. Rod Piazza A California native who helped form Bacon Fat with former Muddy Waters' harpman George 'Harmonica' Smith Piazza only started garnering wide notoriety in the 1990's. After twenty-five years of hard work it was the nineties that the band truly took off. Two studio records were released. ""Blues in the Dark"" in 1991 and ""Alphabet Blues"" in 1992. The turning point was 1993 when the band's ""Live at B.B. King's Blues Club"" won the NAIRD (National Association of Independent Record Distributors) Award Winning Album of the Year. In 1998 the band received six nominations at the W.C. Handy Awards which are considered the blues equivalent of the Grammy's. And Rod walked away with the Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica award. The band was nominated for four awards in 1999 and four in 2000. The Mighty Flyers also won Blues Band of the Year in both those years.

• Howlin Wolf In Concert 1970 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £16.37   |  Saving you £6.62 (28.80%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Howlin' Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood 6' 3 wore size 16 shoes had skin so dark it shined like silver and poured out his darkest sorrows in a voice that sounded like a rampaging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits Wolf's sound still terrifies and inspires. Born Chester Arthur Burnett in 1910 the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hard scrabble youth as a sharecropper in Mississippi. He began his career playing and singing in perilous juke joints with the first Delta blues stars in the 1930s and 1940s. He was present at the birth of rock 'n' roll in Memphis and helped define the sound of electric blues in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s. He ended his career performing and recording with the world's most famous rock stars in the 1970s. His passion for music kept him performing-despite devastating physical problems-until his death in 1976. Hear Howlin' moan his earth-shaking blues and watch his unforgettable stage antics and you'll see why Sam Phillips - who also discovered Elvis Presley Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis - called Howlin' Wolf his greatest discovery. Songs Include: Highway 49 How Many More Years Killing Floor Back Door Man I Want to Have A Word With You Smile At Me Decoration Day

• Various Artists - Experience Hendrix | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-6.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Experience Hendrix presents unforgettable highlights from two star-studded tribute concerts to Jimi Hendrix hailed by critics and fans alike as the greatest guitarist of all time. Filmed in San Diego and at the Paramount Theatre in Hendrix's hometown of Seattle these special never-before-released performances feature legendary blues giants Buddy Guy and Hubert Sumlin coming together with Paul Rodgers former Rolling Stones lead guitarist Mick Taylor and the newest generation of guitar heroes including Kenny Wayne Shepherd Robert Randolph Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Kid Rock's Kenny Olson and Vernon Reid to celebrate Jimi's legacy. Joining forces with these great artists are Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox from the Jimi Hendrix Experience as well as Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon from Double Trouble the powerful rhythm section who served the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. In his brief four-year reign as a superstar Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship - he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire - has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter singer and master of a gamut of blues R&B and rock styles. Tracklist: 1. Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Double Trouble - Come On Voodoo Chile and I Don't Live Today 2. Indigenous - Hear My Train A-Comin' 3. Living Colour - Power of Soul and Crosstown Traffic 4. Eric Gales - Purple Haze 5. Hubert Samlin Jimmy D.Lane & Double Trouble - Bleeding Heart and Killing Floor 6. Mitch Mitchell Billy Cox & Andy Aledort - Freedom 7. Paul Rodgers Mitch Mitchell Billy Cox Andy Aledort & Kenny Olson - Stone Free 8. Buddy Guy Andy Aledort & Double Trouble - Hoochie Koochie Man 9. Buddy Guy Hubert Sumlin Andy Aledort & Double Trouble - Five Long Years 10. The Ensemble - Voodoo Child 11. Robert Randolph & Double Trouble - Purple Haze 12. Mick Taylor & Indigenous - Red House 13. Eric Gales Billy Cox & Buddy Miles - Foxey Lady