Below are excerpts from an interview by Geof Rogers <fltline@ibm.net> of Blues Chat, (Howell Productions Inc.) on April 5, 1998
Geof Rogers: Steve Balkin asks, "Hubert, did you ever play or sit in on Maxwell Street?"
Hubert Sumlin: Oh Lord have mercy, let me tell you something!! I used to get down with those guys on Maxwell, that's where everything started, that's where everything WAS! Musicians from everywhere, you could buy anything, it was just a lot of fun! I hate to see those past times go, but things change, they've got to change!
Geof Rogers: Who did you consider some of the better players on Maxwell Street?
Hubert Sumlin: I don't know! They have so many, we all know that Wolf and Muddy, folks from the South, but they was all these guys, Robert Nighthawk, those guys all on Maxwell! Little Walter, everybody used to play there, blow they harp and play they music right there on Maxwell Street! Just before they made that part of the Chicago campus.
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