 Artist: Mark Hummel: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Mark Hummel's discography:  Heart of Chicago Year: 1997 Tracks: 14  Feel Like Rockin' Year: 1994 Tracks: 16 Harmonica instrumentalist, songwriter and vocaliser Mark Hummel is a practician of the West Coast blues style, which typically includes elements of jazz and embroil. A veteran bandleader, Hummel is last get-go to reach wider recognition through virtually constant touring. Hummel was innate in New Haven, Connecticut simply raised in Los Angeles, California. He became spellbound with the blues-rock of Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Rolling Stones. After eyesight songwriter credits on the albums, he began to dig farther back into those bands' blues roots. He began playing harmonica in his teens in order to be different from the vast pack of guitar players in his high gear gear school day. Hummel studied the styles of the Chicago-based players, including James Cotton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Walter "Shakey" Horton and Little Walter Jacobs. Hummel affected to Berkeley, California in 1972 and played with local bluesmen at that place, including Boogie Jake, Cool Papa, Johnny Waters and Sonny Lane. After graduating high school, he hitchhiked around the commonwealth for trey days, making chicago in New Orleans, Boston and Chicago to memorize from those cities' top players. In 1980, he formed the Blues Survivors, wHO have since performed at legion megrims festivals about the U.S., including the Chicago Blues Festival and the San Francisco Blues Festival. Hummel has released a number of self-generated albums around his Oakland, California home, including Playing In Your Town (1985, Rockinitis Records), Up & Jumpin' (with Canadian guitar player Sue Foley, 1989-90), and Heavy Lovin' (1992, Double Trouble Records). His widely available albums include Feel Like Rockin' (1994, Flying Fish Records), Married To The Blues (1995, Flying Fish), and nigh of late, Spunk of Chicago (1997, Tone-Cool/Rounder), an record album recorded in Chicago on which Hummel is accompanied by some veteran soldier Chicago sidemen, including drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, guitar instrumentalist Dave Myers and producer/guitarist Steve Freund. Considered one of the top mouth harp players in the U.S., Hummel has likewise judged and played in the Hohner Harmonica World Championships, held in Germany; he issued Low-pitched Down to Uptown in 1998. Gilded State Blues was succeeding, released on modern pronounce Electro-Fi with aliment from Hummel's usual mount band, the Blues Survivors. |
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