In the early and mid-2000s, he has appeared regularly in concert with blues guitar great Hubert Sumlin.
Hubert Humphrey | Hubert Parry | Hubert Robert | Hubert von Herkomer | Hubert Laws | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | Hubert Gough | Hubert Burda Media | James Hubert Blake High School | Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington | Hubert Sumlin | Hubert Soudant | Hubert-François Gravelot | Hubert Austin | Yves-André Hubert | Saint-Hubert | Hubert Zemke | Hubert Wilkins | Hubert Walter | Hubert Rance | Hubert Opperman | Hubert Lyautey | Hubert Ingraham | Hubert Howe Bancroft | Hubert Cecil Booth | Hubert | Saint-Hubert, Belgium | Hubert von Luschka | Hubert Védrine | Hubert Tonka |
Over the years Howard "Guitar" Luedtke & Blue Max has opened for the likes of Johnny Winter, Hubert Sumlin, Tinsley Ellis, Koko Taylor, Jeff Healey and Lonnie Brooks.
Some notable on-stage guests of The Codetalkers have been Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks, Bob Weir, Mike Gordon, Hubert Sumlin, Ron Holloway and Ike Stubblefield (about whom Rodgers has penned a song bearing his moniker).
Mele has worked and performed with artists such as Koko Taylor, Hubert Sumlin, Lucky Peterson, Stella, Merl Sanders, Exile, Pierre Bensusan, Hank Williams Jr. & III, the Grass Roots, Peter Dickinson, Jimmy Rogers, Trace Adkins, and B.J. Thomas.
Bobby "Blue" Bland, Henry Townsend, Bo Diddley, Mavis Staples, Johnnie Johnson, Ike Turner, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Fontella Bass, Oliver Sain, Hubert Sumlin, Shemekia Copeland, Little Milton, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Dr. John, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Joe Louis Walker, Roy Gaines, Sonny Landreth, and Ana Popovic!
Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.