This is a super line up!!!
I enjoy everyone of these great musicians and having them all together at the same time would be an over the top treat for any music fan. This could be historic!
-Charlie Musselwhite
Mark Hummel is indeed a road dog – and this is his best album so far. Clean strong production by Kid Andersen- I think Mark’s got a winner here.
Elvin Bishop
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 Hummel's most recent release, “ Road Dog” , a album that redefines the scope and beauty of what the instruments are capable of in the right hands of Hummel, Anson Funderburgh and Junior Watson.
"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.
West Coast Guitar icon Jr Watson has appeared on over 200 plus blues records since 1975 including Rod Piazza, Canned Heat, Kim Wilson, Charlie Musselwhite, William Clarke, Jimmy Rogers, Mark Hummel and many more. Watson has influenced Kirk Fletcher, Rick Holmstrom, Rusty Zinn, Alex Shultz & countless guitarists around the globe. Watson is one of a kind!
Longtime Texas blues guitarist Anson Funderburgh undeniably remains best known in the blues field for his extraordinarily concise lead guitar attack. Funderburgh’s unmistakable style, tone and sensibility has made him one of contemporary blues music’s most important guitar players!
Wes Starr has drummed with a who’s who of Texas talent-Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, Delbert McClinton, Marcia Ball, Omar & The Howlers, Jr Brown, Anson & The Rockets.
Bill Stuve was Rod Piazza’s Mighty Flyer bass player for thirty years as well as Big Joe Turner, Otis Rush, Johnny Taylor, Little Milton and more.