Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Sumlin was born in Greenwood but raised in Hughes, Arkansas, where as a boy he snuck into a Howlin' Wolf show to see his hero. In 1954 Wolf, by then in Chicago, invited him north to play second guitar. When Jody Williams left in 1955, Sumlin became the lead player, a post he held almost without a break until Wolf's death. Wolf even sent him to a classical guitar teacher at the Chicago Conservatory of Music to learn scales and keyboards. Rolling Stone later ranked Sumlin forty-third among the greatest guitarists.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bryant's Grocery — 9.3 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 16 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 24 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 26 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Greenwood — 1.2 mi
• Point Leflore — 1.2 mi
• Bobbie Gentry — 1.6 mi
• Furry Lewis — 1.6 mi