MARK HUMMEL Litlle Walter tribute
Friday, july 12
Show: 8p | Doors: 7p
Tickets: $20 advance/ $25 door ($3 Service Charge Included With Online Tickets. All sales are final, no ticket refunds or exchanges. Seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis, and seats are not guaranteed with ticket purchase.)
"Mark Hummel is a harmonica God" - Blues Revue
"Hummel, a specialist in West Coast Blues, knows a thing or two about about how to please an audience" - New Yorker
"Hummel 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.
Grammy-nominted 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 & rock-blues music in high school but soon discovered the originators like Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson & Little Walter. Soon after, Hummel frequented the Ash Grove club on Melrose Ave. in LA where he saw (in a three month period) three blues legends he would later work with on a regular basis; Charlie Musselwhite, Brownie McGhee (w/Sonny Terry) & James Cotton. By 1985 Mark Hummel's Blues Survivors hit the road full time & continue till the present (Hummel's memoir, "Big Road Blues: 12 Bars on I-80" recounts many road exploits). Hummel's 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. Hummel's 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.
JR Watson is the guitarist on Hummel’s Hard Lovin’ 90s( 1990), Lowdown To Uptown( 1997) & Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Meltdown One (2000).Watson has recorded and toured w/Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers 1976-87, Canned Heat 1988-93, Kim Wilson 1993-95, solo projects 1995-present. Watson has recorded on over 150 sessions including Jimmy Rogers, William Clarke, Charlie Musselwhite, Hollywood Blue Flames, Big Mama Thornton, George Harmonica Smith, Luther Tucker, Shakey Jake and countless others.
Plus UK pianist, legendary Bob Hall from Savoy Brown, Brunning Sunflower Band, Peter Green, Charlie Watts Big Band, Chuck Berry, Lonesome Sundown, Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy Rogers & many other legends.
Austin drummer Wes Starr( Marsha Ball, Asleep At The Wheel, Delbert McClinton, Anson & The Rockets, Omar & The Howlers, Tiny Tim, Willie Nelson &( the bunch) and bassist extraordinaire Bill Stuve( Jr. Watson, Rod Piazza and Mighty Flyers(35 yrs), Jimmy Rogers, George Smith, William Clarke, Pee Wee Crayton, Little Milton, Big Joe Turner, Rusty Zinn & many more)