A few years later, Hubert and James Cotton started a band together. He later took Hubert home to his Mama and asked that he not be punished.
The club owner tried to throw out the underage boy, but Wolf insisted that Hubert stay and sit on the stage while he played. Drawn in by the music, he fell through the window and landed right on the stage. Good investment! When Hubert was about 10, he sneaked out to the local juke joint and stood on a pile of Coca Cola crates to see Howlin’ Wolf. Hubert told his mother that he wanted a guitar and she spent her entire $5 weekly paycheck to buy him his first. had nailed baling wire to a wall and plucked music out of it. Hubert was born to take his place with these masters. He was taken by the great Blues players he heard - Charlie Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, and Son House. Hubert Sumlin was born on Novemin Greenwood, Mississippi and raised in Hughes, Arkansas. But he has gone on to be very much his own man and earned his rightful place on his own terms and talent. Even if he never picked up a guitar after that, his place in the blues hierarchy would be secure. Hubert Sumlin's most famous, and to which he is most associated, contribution to the world of music and the blues is his enduring guitar accompaniment for Howlin' Wolf.
