Mark Hummel's Chicago Blues Blowout featuring Billy Flynn and Oscar Wilson

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Grammy nominated harmonica man/singer/songwriter/bandleader/author/impresario MARK HUMMEL was born in New Haven, CT but moved to Los Angeles as a newborn. Hummel took up an interest in blues harp Charlie Musselwhite, Brownie McGhee (w/Sonny Terry) s Blues Survivors hit the road full time s memoir, Big Road Blues: 12 Bars on I-80 recounts many road exploits). Hummels been featured on over thirty recordings since 1985 including his 2014 Blind Pig Records, Remembering Little Walter (a recording of a Hummel Blues Harp Blowout.) The CD was nominated for a Grammy Award and won two Blues Music Awards. Hummels most recent release, Harpbreaker (September 2018/Electro-Fi), is an all-instrumental harmonica album that redefines the scope and beauty of what the instrument is capable of in the right hands.Billy Flynn is the Grammy winning guitarist on Cadillac Reconds and Beyoncs version of At Last. Billy is on over 200 blues recordings and performances of Kim Wilson, Cash Box Kings, Legendary Blues Band, Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Dawkins, Otis Rush, Jimmy Rogers, Kieth Richards, James Cotton and Eric Clapton. Flynn is a Delmark Records artist & a multi-instrumentalist.Brazilian musician Rodrigo Mantovani is a four time BMA bass playing nominee-he plays with Nick Moss, Jontavious Willis, Big Creek Slim, Curtis Salgado and others. Hes the premiere upright blues bassist. Rodrigo now lives in Chicago.Patrick Seals is a popular drummer from Chicago who plays with Curtis Salgado, Nick Moss and many others in the blues biz.Mark Hummel is a harmonica God - Blues RevueHummel, a specialist in West Coast Blues, knows a thing or two about about how to please an audience - New YorkerHummel plays the harmonica with the fat, full sound that made Little Walter sound almost like a saxophonist rather than a harp man. -Chicago Sun-Times.

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