Mark Hummel
“Mark Hummel is a harmonica God” – Blues Review
– Live and Onstage @ World Records Friday September 20, 2024

Hummel is a road warrior – a true Blues Survivor. Along the way, he has crafted his own trademark harmonica sound – a subtle combination of tone, phrasing and attack combined with a strong sense of swing. Mark Hummel started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation.

Thanks to Mark’s many albums, constant touring and appearances at the major blues festivals, he’s firmly established his solid reputation around the US and Europe.

New album “True Believer” on Rockinitus Records is now released. This CD includes all new recordings and features Junior Watson, Billy Flynn, Oscar Wilson, Joe Beard, Bob Welsh, Wes Starr, Kedar Roy, Randy Bermudes and more.  >We have this CD here at World Records!<

& Friends

– Anson Funderburgh

For close to 50 years, those words pretty well sum up Funderburgh’s life and love of just being “in the moment” when he’s on stage coaxing some of the very best blues guitar sounds in the world from his Fender StratocasterIn the moment indeed.

That’s where Funderburgh lives every day. “I’m just a simple country boy,” he says. But this is one country boy who felt the call of the blues early on and turned his love of country music into blistering blues that tell the tale of the working man. The every-day, simple man. People just like Funderburgh himself.

– Bob Welsh

Bob Welsh Guitar & Piano Twice Grammy nominated, currently playing with Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio as well as The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Hailing from Covington, La., Bob moved to the Bay Area in his late teens, where he’s been part of the roots music scene for almost twenty years.

He started out in the Rusty Zinn band, and from there has backed up & toured with multiple luminaries all over the world, including Charlie Musselwhite, Kim Wilson, John Nemeth, Mark Hummel, Eric Lindell, Ren Geisick, Aireene Espiritu, Roy Gaines, Snooky Pryor, Pinetop Perkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Lazy Lester, James Harman, James Cotton, Aki Kumar and many others.

CD Release Tour – Mark Hummel “True Believer”

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True Believer

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Mark started the Blues Survivors in 1977 with Mississippi Johnny Waters. By 1984 Hummel began a life of non- stop touring of the US, Canada and overseas, which he still continues at least 130-150 days out of each year. Hummel has toured or recorded with blues legends Charles Brown, Charlie Musselwhite, Lowell Fulson, Billy Boy Arnold, Carey Bell, Lazy Lester, Brownie McGhee, Eddie Taylor, Luther Tucker and Jimmy Rogers.

T BEAR ALL-STARS

– Richard T. Bear

Pianist shares memories, stories of his own career as a solo artist and songwriter. Visibility equates with viability, T. Bear defies the odds. After initially attracting attention with a pair of albums released in the late ’70s on RCA, he chose to go under the radar and subsequently abandoned the idea of making music entirely. Now, nearly 35 years later, he’s reemerged with a new album, Fresh Bear Tracks, and a determination to renew his efforts and put his career back in full throttle.

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Taking his cues from the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bob Dylan, Odetta, Fred Neil, and Sandy Bull for sure. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady discovered him playing piano in the store, and, suitably impressed, asked him to sit in with them. After serving a stint as Carly Simon’s road manager, he took off for London where he had opportunity to open for Jeff Beck, Richie Havens and Odetta. He began co-writing material with Squier, backing Kiss members Gene Simmons and Peter Criss on their respective solo albums, contributing to Toby Beau’s hit single “My Angel Baby,” and writing and co-writing songs for Cher. In addition, he toured with Stephen Stills, played on the Crosby, Stills and Nash song “Southern Cross,” and opened for Dave Mason, Mick Fleetwood and the Doobie Brothers, among others.

T Bear has been around in so many ways, but especially this:
“I was on the board of directors for a thing called the Musicians Picnic. I used to get all kinds of people. I was playing with Mick Fleetwood and got him to come, then I got Clapton to come and talk and play, and Chicago, and a bunch of people. We had that thing going for almost 25 years. It was a nonprofit organization that would put musicians who had no insurance into detox and then into a sober living environment. Before there was MusiCares, there was MAP — Musicians Assistance Program. I was at the start of MAP with a guy named Buddy Arnold. I got sober and Buddy invited me over to his house and we started the musicians meetings. There were like 12 of us — Paul Butterfield, Ray Sharkey, an actor, Dick Forest. A lot of those people died — there’s only a few of us left. I remember saying to Sean, “I’m doing this thing called the Musicians Picnic. Maybe you come out?” And he never did it. I was really involved and invested in getting musicians sober. I think I stepped down the 21st or 22nd year, because I had enough (laughs). But that’s kind of my legacy.”

T Bear has appeared at World Records several times and now opening with T BEAR ALL-STARS!

– Laurence Juber

GRAMMY® winning guitarist Laurence Juber is a solo performer, recording artist, composer and arranger. His playing fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop and classical styles, creating a multi-faceted performance that belies the use of only one instrument.

A music graduate of London’s Goldsmith’s College, he was featured guitar soloist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before becoming established as a studio musician in the mid-1970’s.

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First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCartney’s Wings, with whom he won a Grammy, Juber has since established himself as world-renowned guitar virtuoso and entertainer.

Juber, known to his fans as LJ, has recorded more than two dozen albums which spotlight his unique touch and tone on acoustic guitar.

His latest release, A Day In My Life, is a collection of a dozen of his celebrated arrangements of Beatles songs recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios , where the band recorded most of their music. 

– Tony Braunagel

Tony Braunagel is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter from Houston, Texas, United States, who is based in Los Angeles, California. Braunagel has played on many film scores and television shows as well as numerous albums as a musician, composer and producer. He is best known as a session drummer and/or percussionist of over 200 albums including those of Otis Rush, Eric Burdon, Johnny Nash, Coco Montoya, Lucky Peterson, as well as Grammy winning albums of Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy (percussion) and for performing live with dozens of music icons including Bonnie Raitt, Rickie Lee Jones, BB King, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Bette Midler, Lyle Lovett, and Taj Mahal to name just a few.

– Rick Cortes

Rick Cortes is that he is bassist on John Mayall’s ‘Wake Up Call’ and Buddy Guy’s ‘Feels Like Rain. American bassist originally from New Orleans, currently residing in California. In Groups: John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, The Heaters, more…

CD RELEASE Mark Hummel & Friends – Anson Funderburgh, Bob Welsh

Mark Hummel & Friends
– Anson Funderburgh – Bob Welsh
Opening set by: T BEAR ALL-STARS
– Richard T Bear – Laurence Juber – Rick Cortes – Tony Braunagel
– Live and Onstage
@ World Records Friday September 20, 2024!

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