Video: Allman Brothers Band "Smokestack Lightning" 3/26/2011

Just a few weeks after celebrating his 80th birthday, legendary blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin succumbed to heart failure at a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey earlier today according to the Houston Press [via CoS ]. Sumlin, who was cited as an influence by a generation-spanning list of notable guitarists ranging from Warren Haynes to Keith Richards to Eric Clapton, was the primary guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band from the mid '50s until Wolf's death in 1976. When Rolling Stone recently announced their 100 Greatest Guitarists of All-Time list , Sumlin was listed at 65. [...]