I felt like a slice of Blues today!! Can’t get much better than Howlin’ Wolf!
Howlin’ Wolf – How Many More Years – YouTube
Howlin’ Wolf – Back Door Man – YouTube
Howlin’ Wolf – Wang Dang Doodle – YouTube
Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful [1960] – YouTube
Could have chosen a couple of dozen outstanding tracks!
This was one of the first albums that Dick Brunning ever played for me! One of my favourites! Simmering with menace. I’ve got my 44!
I had only heard about the terrible fire from the Howlin’ Wolf record which I first heard as a teenager. I never thought I would actually get to visit the site and see where the tragedy had happened. It was a song; then suddenly, it was real. I was actually standing at the site that had elicited that song. All that was left was a slab of concrete.
Here’s Howlin’ Wolf’s poignant song. Takes me back to my fourteen-year-old self.
One of the greats of Chicago Blues! A voice that would blast the roof off a cathedral. Hubert Sumlin’s divine guitar. A driving beat and mournful tales of love lost and infidelity.
Sam Philips rated him as the biggest talent he had discovered.
What more could you want?
Willie Dixon could sure write them. The band could sure play them and Chester had the best voice ever!!
I sure could do with a wang dang doodle!!
If you’re ever in Memphis one of the ‘must do’s’ is to visit Sun Studio where the young Elvis, when he was cool, thin and hip, a real innovator and rockabilly hepcat, before he became a fat pop star, recorded those monumental tracks.
