Artist: Howlin’ Wolf
Album: Howlin’ Blues Selected A & B Sides 1951-1962
Genre: Blues
Label: Acrobat Records
Year Of Release: 2023
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
01. Moanin’ At Midnight
02. How Many More Years
03. Wolf Is At Your Door
04. Evil Is Going On
05. Who Will Be Next
06. Smokestack Lightning
07. I Asked For Water
08. Sittin’ On Top Of The World
09. Howlin’ Blues
10. Spoonful
11. Wang Dang Doodle
12. Back Door Man
13. Down In The Bottom
14. The Red Rooster
15. Goin’ Down Slow
16. I Ain’t Superstitious
Howlin’ Wolf was one of the most charismatic and exciting performers in the history of blues music. Standing six feet three inches he was a mountain of a man whose menacing vocal and low down ‘n’ dirty delivery greatly influenced a whole generation of rockers who followed. Born Chester Burnett, Wolf was one of the most important and influential figures in Chicago Blues through the 1950s. Rougher-edged than Muddy Waters, the intensity of Wolf’s performance prompted Sun Records impresario, Sam Phillips, to observe: When I heard Howlin’ Wolf, I said: ‘This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies’. Pressed on 140g black vinyl, this 16-track LP features the bluesman’s best-loved songs from the first decade or more of his recording career, comprising songs from his 1951 debut recording for Phillips in Memphis, through to 1962 by which time commercial blues had become focused on the middle-class, white student market as much as its traditional black roots. A fitting tribute to one of the true greats of the blues.
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