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Mark Hummel is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. He was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the Bay Area. He began playing harmonica at the age of 12, and by the time he was 16, he was performing professionally. He has released over 20 albums, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Hummel is 65 years old as of 2021. He stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m). He has a slim build. His hair color is salt and pepper and his eye color is brown.
Hummel is currently single. He has not been previously engaged.
Hummel has released over 20 albums, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has won numerous awards, including the Blues Music Award for Best Harmonica Player in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Hummel's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million as of 2021. He has earned his wealth from his career as a blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.
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Hummel's latest album (2020) is a tribute to Bluebird/RCA Victor blues musicians of the 1930s and 1940s. Entitled Wayback Machine it featured Joe Beard, Billy Flynn, Kid Andersen, Rusty Zinn, R.W. Grigsby and Deep Basement Shakers. This is Hummel's 29 release and 10 for Electro-Fi Records.
In 2019, Hummel was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Best Instrumentalist: Harmonica' category. This is his seventh nomination.
In 2016, Hummel and the Golden State Lone Star Revue released their debut album on Electro-Fi Records.
In 2014, Blind Pig's Remembering Little Walter album, that Hummel produced and performed on, was nominated for Best Blues CD at the Grammy Awards. It also won two Blues Music Awards for Best Blues CD and Best Traditional Blues CD. In April 2014, Electro-Fi Records released Hummel's The Hustle Is Really On. It featured the 'Golden State Lone Star Revue' as well as Kid Andersen, Sid Morris, Doug James, and June Core. The CD made the Living Blues Radio Charts for four months reaching number two. It was also nominated for Best Traditional Blues CD in 2015.
Hummel wrote a book about his musical travels for Mountain Top Publishing called Big Road Blues: 12 Bars On I-80 in 2012.
As of 2012, Hummel toured with a California and Texas aggregation, 'Golden State Lone Star Revue', a group that featured Anson Funderburgh and Little Charlie Baty on guitars plus R.W. Grigsby on bass, and Wes Starr on drums. Baty left the group in December 2016 and has been replaced by the guitarist Mike Keller in January 2017.
Jerry Portnoy, a blues harmonica player who used to play in Muddy Waters' band, described Hummel as a musician who possesses "tremendous chops and great knowledge, not only of traditional blues harmonica but other music as well - R&B and swing and big-band jazz. He brings a lot to the table when he plays." He appeared on the cover of the August/September 2005 issue of Blues Revue magazine, and in April 2010, Hummel was a guest on the House of Blues Radio Hour, a syndicated weekly radio program hosted by Dan Aykroyd (in character as Elwood Blues).
Mark Hummel was born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Hummel and his family lived for a time in Aliso Village, a housing project in East Los Angeles that was demolished in 1999. As Hummel explains in his forthcoming autobiography, his parents hired Mexican babysitters who often played R&B and soul music on the radio when they cared for him. It was through these babysitters that Hummel was first introduced to black music. Early on, he was also drawn to the music of Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo. Hummel did not start playing harmonica seriously until high school, and by the age of sixteen he was already playing in bands.
Hummel is also known for founding the Blues Harmonica Blowout tours, which he has produced regularly since 1991. The tour features a rotating lineup of veteran harmonica players backed by the Blues Survivors. Past tours have included Snooky Pryor, William Clarke, Billy Boy Arnold, Lazy Lester, Sam Myers, John Mayall, John P. Hammond, Elvin Bishop, Jason Ricci, Howard Levy, Corky Siegel, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, Duke Robillard, Kim Wilson, Lee Oskar, Jerry Portnoy, Magic Dick, Rod Piazza, Paul deLay, James Harman, Mitch Kashmar, John Primer, Huey Lewis, Bobby Rush and many others.
Hummel began working professionally after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s. A number of jazz and blues artists had already made their mark on Hummel at this point in his early career, including Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Ella Johnson, Lester Young, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton, Paul Butterfield, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Charlie Musselwhite.
Once established in the East Bay in the 1970s, Hummel started performing with Boogie Jake, Sonny Lane, Cool Papa Sadler, and Mississippi Johnny Waters. He formed the Blues Survivors in 1979, and they have been his band ever since. Since its inception the band has featured a number of popular performers before they became household names, such as King of the Hill creator and blues bassist Mike Judge. Other noteworthy members include Jimmy Bott, June Core, Marty Dodson, Rusty Zinn, Ronnie James Weber, Chris Masterson, Charles Wheal, Steve Wolf, Randy Bermudes and Joel Foy. Over the years Hummel has also toured or recorded with Sue Foley, Charles Brown, Brownie McGhee, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bob Stroger, Dave Myers, Jimmy Pugh, Kid Andersen, Ron Thompson, Junior Watson, Duke Robillard, Steve Freund, Billy Flynn and Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser. Hummel has also toured with Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Tucker and Eddie Taylor; live recordings from those tours are available on his CD compilation Chicago Blues Party: Recorded Live! 1980–1992. In addition to playing in blues clubs across the U.S. and throughout Europe, Hummel and the Blues Survivors have performed at the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Sonora Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the King Biscuit Blues Festival, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. He has also contributed CD reviews to Blues Music Magazine and Living Blues. Writing in Living Blues, Lee Hildebrand described Hummel's performance at the 1978 San Francisco Blues Festival as one that "epitomized the high musical quality of the entire weekend" festival.
Mark Hummel (born December 15, 1955) is an American Grammy Award nominated and Blues Music Award winning blues harmonica player, vocalist, songwriter, and long-time bandleader of the Blues Survivors. Since 1991, Hummel has produced the Blues Harmonica Blowout tour, of which he is also a featured performer. The shows have featured blues harmonica players such as James Cotton, Carey Bell, John Mayall and Charlie Musselwhite. Although he is typically identified as performing West Coast blues, Hummel is also proficient in Delta blues, Chicago blues, swing and jazz styles. Hummel also plays with the Golden State Lone Star Revue (a Texas/California supergroup), Mark Hummel & Deep Basement Shakers (a jug band trio), as well as the current edition of the Blues Survivors.