Bob Angell and Haronica Robert recording at the world-famous Sun Studio in Memphis. This is where everything began, people. A perilously heavy place.
At last night's meeting of the International Hubert Sumlin Fan Club, Duke Robillard and Bob Angell share some terrific Hubert fables...Good Stuff.....
Harmonica Workout at an art gallery opening in spring 1970
Jack Moore hammering away and Stevie Ray Vaughan smoking!!! Nice shot, isn't it?
Jack Moore (dms) with SRV (left) and LouAnn Barton (Rt). How cool is this? Check out the early Double Trouble guitar strap!
Kelly Calling: The telephone blues on a summer's day...
Paul Murphy, Lazy Lester ,Chicago Vin and Angell (1987)
Howlin' Wolf's Bassist "Shorty" Gilbert jams with Angell and Bob Richards (dms) in June 1978
Bob Angell & Muddy Waters share a backstage moment in 1975
The Master & the Student: The fabled Hubert Sumlin and Bob Angell onstage in 1981.
Honeyboy Edwards, 93 years old, was Robert Johnson's running partner and played and recorded with every notable blues legend you could ever name ranging from Big Walter Horton and Tommy Johnson to Pe
Jack Moore with a white-knuckled deathgrip on a favorite pair of drumsticks. See how he rolls?
And now, a little sumpin' for the ladies :Jack Moore, Chicago Vin and Bob Angell hanging out with the blues...
Jack Moore (dms), Bob Angell (gtr), Brian Crooks (hca) and the lovely Chicago Vin (bs) supporting John Mayall at a gig in the Northeast U.S.(Photo: George "Z.Z."Doyle)
A casual backstage shot with Texas guitar master Buddy Whittington & The Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall in 1999.(Photo: Joe Yuele)
After a very late night gig in 1976, Bob Angell and the "King of the Harp", blues legend Big Walter Horton, look forward to their standard late nite fare: Enormous Greek sandwiches. And shots of VO, s
R&B legend Roy "Good Rockin' " Brown and Bob Angell in a rare hotel room moment. Angell:"Roy had just told me the single best Elvis story I've ever heard. Remember, he IS the man who hit first with 'G
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Backstage with Stevie Ray Vaughan c. 1983. Pride 'n' Joy......
Angell with Coco Montoya (well-dressed man)...and peeping thru at the back: the great bassist Bobby Haynes !
Yes, you are correct. That is British R&B figurehead Spencer Davis in a Blues Outlet T-shirt and Bob Angell dressed as an English gent complete with umbrella. Curiouser and curiouser, eh? (1985)
1974 image on a cruise ship gig. What the...????
some friends...in the garden
Blues Outlet...NOW !!! (Photo: Edizkan Ata)
Truetone in recline...pretty , isn't she?
Driving Sideways...with battered, heavily autographed old Fender...a dear old friend...
Well...if you're gonna play LIKE Bo Diddley.........Y'Know???
Chicago Vin carefully considering his next move.... Dig it!!!
Jim Parker, Bob Buco, Joe Parisi and Bob Angell in a1967 show at the University of Rhode Island. Wow..Memories!!!
Joe Parisi(dms), Bob Buco (rhythm gtr),Bob Angell and A. Lanni (bs) in September 1971. Vintage goodness here. (Photo by Marilyn Angell)
Sitting on the Fence: Kelly Knapp and Bob Angell take a break during the recording of the "True-Tone" album.(Photo: Steve Rizzo)
Name That Guitar!! Yep..it's a True-Tone !! (Photo: Ted Paull)
Blues Outlet 2010. An after show shot...Angell, Chicago Vin and Jack Moore. (Photo: George "ZZ" Doyle)
Bob Angell & Duke Robillard cutting a dual guitar tune for next album...Coming soon
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BLUES MATTERS ! magazine (UK) advert
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Late night blues jam with Gaz Mayall in London (1985). Bayswater be rockin' !! OK?
About Dem Shoes: SnakeShaker in the same Fender shoes his fabled Uncle Hubert Sumlin often wears.(Photo: George "ZZ" Doyle)
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SnakeShaker and the lovely Kelly Knapp taking a short break in the recording studio in the summer of 1992. (Photo: Simon Ritt)
Besides being the world's greatest blues guitarist, Uncle Hubert Sumlin is also a dedicated follower of fashion. See?
The great Hubert Sumlin and Bob Angell following a show in October 1984.
In 1983, Delta bluesman CeDell Davis made his very first foray out of the deep south and to the Northeast on a short tour backed by Blues Outlet. This is WAY before he became the darling of rock-blues
Talking about the good times:Hubert Sumlin and Bob Angell meet up in the band room in a Boston-area club in December 1999.
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Smiling her blues away. Kelly Knapp....
Bob Angell and Buddy Whittington double-teaming a Les Paul during soundcheck. Big fun, you betcha....
Reverb for days......
Chicago Vin barefoot in the studio.Even hipper than it looks....
Red Brick Blues: It's time for True-Tone...
Harmonica Robert Onstage 1983...
Bob Angell broadcasting the blues over radio station WRIU in May 1970. Note the Elmore and Sonny Boy LPs...Sweet !!!
Snake Shakin' and Blues Breakin'...One Sweet Rig...
Screaming on a DuoSonic...SnakeShaker rockin' out !!!!!
SnakeShaker and Chicago Vin co-conspire at the microphone during a recent performance...
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For those Otis Rush sorta days....
Jamming with old friend Chris Stovall Brown 7/18/2010
Angell with old friend John Mayall 12 August 2010
National Steel Blues at Lupo's early '90s supporting John Mayall yet again !
Bob Angell and Chris Stovall Brown share the stage at a big blues bash 7/24/11