# Back Door Man guitar solo > Hubert Sumlin's guitar solo on Back Door Man by Howlin' Wolf (1961) starts at about 2:30. From the album Howlin' Wolf. A blues classic from the 1960s. Canonical URL: Howlin' Wolf, 1961, from *Howlin' Wolf*. Solo by *Hubert Sumlin*. A menacing stop-time groove punctuated by Sumlin's sparse, pointed licks. Back Door Man by Howlin' Wolf is #14 in our ranking of the best Howlin' Wolf guitar solos. The solo is played by Hubert Sumlin and the song was released in 1961. ## In our lists - [The Best Howlin' Wolf Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/howlin-wolf-guitar-solos/) — #14 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Back Door Man? Hubert Sumlin played the solo on Howlin' Wolf's Back Door Man (1961). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)