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Keith Richards plays first major show in 5 years
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards played what's been termed his first major concert in five years when he joined Eric Clapton at the Apollo Theatre in New York City for Clapton's star-packed "Howlin' for Hubert" tribute. The tribute benefits the Jazz Foundation, honoring Howlin' Wolf's hugely influential great blues guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, who died in Dec. at 80, reports CBS News. The foundation has supported hundreds of musicians who have fallen on hard times.
Richards has performed on rare occasions since the end of The Stones' "Bigger Bang" tour in 2007, such as in 2008 when he joined The Crickets for a few Buddy Holly songs at that band's induction into the Musician's Hall of Fame in Nashville. He joined Clapton on "Goin' Down Slow," that was written in 1941 by St. Louis Jimmy Oden and recorded by Wolf and Sumlin in 1962.
