Hummel, Mark
(*1955)> HARMONICA PLAYER · SINGER · SONGWRITER
Hummel, Mark 15 December 1955; New Haven, CT Harmonica player, singer, and occasionally songwriter who grew up in Los Angeles and moved to Berkeley in 1972. The son of a white methodist minister, Mark Hummel mixes influences from West Coast blues and the upbeat side of Chicago blues. From 1980, he toured under his own name or with the Blues Survivors, sometimes with Muddy Waters’s sidemen: drummer Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and bassist Robert Stroger. Hummel recorded his first LP in 1985, and…