MARK HUMMEL
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Produced by Mark Hummel
Executive Producer - Andrew Galloway
Cover Photo - Anne Hamersky
Design - Kiley Rundle
Assistant Engineer - Andrew Heppner
Mixed and Mastered by Kid Anderson at Greaseland Studios, San Jose, CA
Recorded at Jim Day Studios, Pacifica, CA in 2000, 2005, 2006, 2009.
Track 16 recorded at Route 66 Studios, Sabastipol, CA in 1995
Track 13, Dave Wellhausen Recorders, San Francisco, CA 12/2009
 
 

Mark Hummel - Harmonica and vocals on all tracks. Guitar on track 7
Rusty Zinn - Guitar on tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13. Harmony vocal on track 6
Charlie Musslewhite - Acoustic guitar on track 16
Steve Freund - Guitar on track 14
Charles Wheal - Guitar on tracks 4 & 15
Bob Welsh - Piano on tracks 9 & 10. Organ & guitar on track 14
Kid Anderson - Mandolin, Snare & Kick Drums on track 12. Guitar on track 7.
Steve Lucky - Piano on track 13

Vance Ehlers - Bass on track 13
Steve Wolf - Bass on tracks 4,5,7,9,10,15
Marty Dodson - Drums on tracks 1,4,5,7,8,9,10,15
Lance Dickerson - Drums on track 13
Burton Winn - Bass on track 14
Paul Revelli - Drums on track 14
Chris Burns - Organ and piano on tracks 1,2,3,6,8,11
R.W. Grigsby - Bass on tracks 1,2,3,6,8,11,12
Willie Panker - Drums on tracks 1,2,3,6,11
Johnny Bones - Sax on tracks 2 & 3
Lech Wierzynski - Trumpet on tracks 2 & 3
 

Funky Way
The Price of Love
Never No More
One More Time
Roller Coaster
I'm Shorty
My Baby's So Sweet
Honey Bee Blues

  
I Want To Be Loved
Strange Things Happening
Ready Steady Stroll
Lord Oh Lord Blues
Highway Rhumba
Before The Beginning
It's My Life Baby
Can't Be Successful
 

Thanks to my wife Alexis, Julia, Daina & Carly, my folks, Greg Baert, Betz Girourard, Wendy Snyder, Charles Putris, Michael Morris at Rosebud Agency, Beth Grigsby, Dave Barrett, Chef Denis, Jeannette & Joe Lodovichi, the Blues Survivors, California Honeydrops, Flavio & Prado Blues Band. Special gratitude to the artists that inspired me on this CD: Muddy, Sonny Boy, Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Reed, Jr. Wells, James Cotton, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, Big Walter Horton, George Harmonica Smith, Peter Green, Willie Dixon, Jerry McCain, & all the Blues Greats still with us – and the ones gone on.

In Memory of Norton Buffalo, Gary Primich, Mel Brown, Snooky Pryor, Sam Myers, Carey Bell & Paul deLay.

"The Spirit of Little Walter Lives On! If you miss the sound of those great early
Chess records, this one’s for you. Mark blows harp like no one else I know."
– JOHN MAYALL

"This CD is a pleasure to listen to, Mark and his band are
keeping the next generation of the Blues alive."
– James Cotton

 

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