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Albert Cummings

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Albert Cummings was born in Williamstown, MA. At an early age Albert Cummings learned his first three chords, but switched to five-string banjo when he was 12. While in high school Albert Cummings won several talent contests and made semi-regular appearances on Boston’s ABC Network affiliate. The transition from banjo to guitar began when he was 16 or 17 and a brother-in-law gave him tapes of Stevie Ray Vaughan during the Texas Flood period. Over the next few years, when others his age were starting their first bands, Albert Cummings went to school, studied his craft, joined the Army National Guard, met his future wife and started his business. It wasn’t until Albert Cummings was 27 that he finally began to play with a band. During the next years, Albert Cummings had a stint in a band called Swamp Yankee, and he was sharing a bill with Double Trouble at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Out of that life-altering night at the RPI field house came an offer from Double Trouble to produce and play on Albert Cumming’s From the Heart, the title based on the career advice Shannon suspects SRV might have offered Albert Cummings had they ever talked. Besides the personal bond with Double Trouble, Albert Cummings has won the respect of a number of other musicians. As of the mid-2004, he’s shared bills with Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond, Susan Tedeschi, Tommy Castro, Chris Duarte, Bernard Allison, the Neville Brothers, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Sheryl Crow, Duke Robillard, and B.B. King.

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