Sugar Blue made his classes in Chicago with Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, and Luisiana Red. Following the advice of Memphis Slim who settled in Paris, he left for France in the late 1970s

Sugar Blue

The legend is that Sugar Blue was playing the harmonica in the corridors of the Paris metro to pay for his stay when Mick Jagger spotted him and hired him for the new Rolling Stones album (1).

This is how the virtuoso and incendiary harmonica of Sugar Blue (2) stood out on the intro to the track Miss You from the album Some Girls.

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(1) Sugar Blue played harmonica with the Rolling Stones on the albums Somes Girls (1978), Emotional Rescue (1980) and Tattoo You (1981)

(2)  For more information, visit Sugar Blue’s official website.

Sugar Blue | Club New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland - March 1981

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