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| Late Chicago blues piano patriarch born in rural Mississippi in 1905. By the age of 14, Sunnyland was playing around the Delta Region. During the late forties, he moved to Chicago and became one of the proponents of the post-World War II Chicago blues style. He played with a number of younger Chicago bluesmen during their formative years (the early career of Muddy Waters comes to mind) and until his death in 1995, Sunnyland remained an important figure in the current blues scene and has been honored with an annual memorial piano set at the Chicago Blues Festival. I accidentally attended a birthday party for him at Rosa's, and it was one of the neatest experiences of my life. His late niece, Bea "Mama" Sumlin, was married to Hubert Sumlin.
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