Howlin` Wolf

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Howlin` Wolf ( Second Album Aka Rockin` Chair )

Howlin` Wolf

Hoo Doo Records

8436542016537

HOO 141739

263486

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Howlin` Wolf ( Second Album Aka Rockin` Chair )

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CD 9,95 €

INCLUDES 10 BONUS TRACKS

Howlin’ Wolf was one of the greatest characters and most electrifying performers in blues history. He was an imposing presence, blessed with a thunderous voice, enormous physical strength, and a pair of lungs that would not quit.

Wolf didn’t just startle audiences, he menaced them into submission. In addition to his powerful voice, he was also an accomplished harmonica player. Wolf was one of the first artists to figure out how to make thoroughly modern experimental music by emphasizing the most primitive elements of its ancestral roots.

This quintessential collector’s release contains Wolf’s eponymous second album for Chess Records, Howlin’ Wolf (1962) – one of the all-time cornerstones of the Chicago Blues. The so-called “Rockin’ Chair Album” brings together some of the electric blues’ finest songs from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, such as “The Red Rooster”, “Spoonful”, “Wang-Dang-Doodle”, and “Back Door Man”. In addition, this CD includes 10 bonus tracks (gathering a variety of those great sides Wolf recordedbetween 1952 and 1959), which together with this remastered gem represent the finest work of this blues master in his prime.

PERSONNEL:

HOWLIN’ WOLF, vocals, guitar and harmonica, plus:

Willie Johnson, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rogers (guitar), Willie Dixon (bass)
Otis Spann, Henry Gray (piano)
Earl Phillips, Sammy Lay (drums),
Abe Locke (tenor saxophone), among others.

Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, between 1952 and 1961.

TRACKS:

HOWLIN’ WOLF
01. SHAKE FOR ME 2:17
02. THE RED ROOSTER 2:25
03. YOU’LL BE MINE 2:26
04. WHO’S BEEN TALKIN’ 2:21
05. WANG-DANG-DOODLE 2:21
06. LITTLE BABY 2:45
07. SPOONFUL 2:42
08. GOING DOWN SLOW 3:23
09. DOWN IN THE BOTTOM 2:09
10. BACK DOOR MAN 2:47
11. HOWLIN’ FOR MY BABY 2:30
12. TELL ME 2:56

BONUS TRACKS
13. I DIDN’T KNOW 2:34
14. POOR BOY 2:32
15. ROCKIN’ DADDY 3:00
16. MY LIFE 3:01
17. DON’T MESS WITH MY BABY 2:37
18. MR. HIGHWAY MAN 2:46
19. I’VE BEEN ABUSED 2:15
20. CHANGE MY WAY 3:30
21. SO GLAD 2:07
22. YOU CAN’T BE BEAT 3:09

TOTAL TIME: 59:46