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Howlin’ Wolf

2014 - The Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs 1951-62

(3CD Box) [mp3@320]




Howlin’ Wolf


Howlin' Wolf performing in 1972

Wikipedia:
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was an African-American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi. With a booming voice and looming physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists. Musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of their wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies'". Several of his songs, including "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Back Door Man", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful", have become blues and blues rock standards. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 51 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".


The Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs 1951-62 (3CD Box)



Artist: Howlin’ Wolf
Title: The Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs 1951-62
Format: 3 × CD, Compilation
Release Date: 2014
Country: UK
Label: Acrobat Music
Catalog: ATCRCD9039
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Duration: 218:30

AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett:
With his larger-than-life persona, roaring vocals, and the raw, skittering guitar lines of Hubert Sumlin behind him, Howlin’ Wolf turned out dozens of stellar Chicago blues singles for RPM and Chess Records between 1951 and 1962, including “Smokestack Lightnin’,” "Spoonful," "Red Rooster," and the magnificent “Killing Floor,” among many others. All of these, along with his other classic and essential singles (both A- and B-sides) from the first decade of his career, are collected here in this expansive, three-disc, 80-track set, which also includes several sides recorded at sessions during this period but never released.

amazon.com Review:
Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, was one of the most important and influential figures in Chicago Blues through the 1950s, and along with Muddy Waters helped to establish the electric blues style that laid the foundations for rock music in subsequent decades. With his imposing physical presence and loud, almost fearsome voice, he was a powerful and impressive performer, who wrote and popularised songs which have become classic standards of the genre, like ""Spoonful"", ""Smokestack Lightning"", ""Killing Floor"" and ""Red Rooster"", which became fixtures in the repertoire of bands like The Rolling Stones, who very much championed his cause and widened his reputation in the latter years of his career. This collection brings together both sides of all the singles he released through the RPM and Chess labels during the first hugely important decade of his career, along with bonus tracks comprising recordings made at sessions during this period which were not released as singles at the time. It's a great-value 80-track 3-CD set, which showcases one of the major personalities of the blues.




CD1:

01. Riding In The Moonlight - 2:18
02. Morning At Midnight - 2:41
03. Passing By Blues - 2:39
04. Crying At Daybreak - 2:41
05. Moanin 'At Midnight - 2:41
06. How Many More Years - 2:53
07. My Baby Stole Off - 2:57
08. I Want Your Picture - 2:49
09. Wolf Is At Your Door - 2:57
10. Howlin 'Wolf Boogie - 2:40
11. Getting Old And Grey - 2:40
12. Mr Highway Man - 2:47
13. Saddle My Pony - 2:32
14. Worried All The Time - 3:08
15. Oh, Red - 2:36
16. My Last Affair - 2:58
17. All Night Boogie - 2:14
18. I Love My Baby - 2:57
19. No Place To Go - 2:56
20. Rockin 'Daddy - 3:05
21. Baby How Long - 2:53
22. Evil Is Going On - 2:55
23. I'll Be Around - 3:13
24. Forty-Four - 2:53
25. Who Will Be Next - 2:34
26. I Have A Little Girl - 2:33

CD2:

01. Come To Me Baby - 2:24
02. Do not Mess With My Baby - 2:38
03. Smokestack Lightning - 3:06
04. You Can not Be Beat - 3:07
05. I Asked For Water - 2:50
06. So Glad - 2:08
07. Goin 'Back Home - 2:41
08. My Life - 3:06
09. Somebody In My Home - 2:21
10. Nature - 2:47
11. Poor Boy - 2:32
12. Sittin 'On Top Of The World - 2:33
13. I Did not Know - 2:24
14. Moaning For My Baby - 2:49
15. I'm Leaving You - 2:55
16. Change My Way - 3:30
17. Howlin 'Blues - 2:46
18. I Better Go Now - 2:44
19. I've Been Abused - 2:16
20. Mister Airplane Man - 2:43
21. You Gonna Wreck My Life - 2:51
22. The Natchez Burning - 2:11
23. Who's Been Talking - 2:23
24. Tell Me - 2:57
25. Spoonful - 2:45
26. Howlin 'For My Baby - 2:34
27. Wang Dang Doodle - 2:21

CD3:

01. Back Door Man - 2:49
02. Little Baby - 2:45
03. Down In The Bottom - 2:11
04. Shake For Me - 2:15
05. The Red Rooster - 2:28
06. You'll Be Mine - 2:21
07. Goin 'Down Slow - 3:24
08. Just Like I Treat You - 2:49
09. I Is not Superstious - 2:54
10. Mama's Baby - 2:08
11. Do The Do - 2:12

Bonus Tracks:

12. Keep What You Got - 2:22
13. California Blues - 2:54
14. California Boogie - 2:58
15. My Troubles And Me - 3:13
16. Worried About My Baby - 2:58
17. Brown Skin Woman - 2:41
18. House Rockin 'Boogie - 4:09
19. Driving This Highway - 2:53
20. The Sun Is Rising - 2:43
21. Stealing My Clothes - 3:00
22. I'm The Wolf - 2:51
23. Highway My Friend - 2:16
24. Hold Your Money - 2:10
25. Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back - 2:37
26. Crazy About You Baby - 2:21
27. Streamline Woman - 2:41


Personnel:

Jerome Arnold - Bass
Fred Below - Drums
Junior Blackman - Drums
J.T. Brown - Sax (Tenor)
Lee Cooper - Guitar
Willie Dixon - Bass, Drums
Adolph Duncan - Sax (Tenor)
Alfred Elkins - Bass
Henry Gray - Piano
Howlin' Wolf - Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Sax (Tenor), Vocals
L.C. Hubert - Piano
Willie Johnson - Bass, Drums, Guitar
Johnny Jones Piano
Hosea Lee Kennard - Piano
Sam Lay - Drums
S.P. Leary - Drums
Abb Locke - Sax (Tenor)
L.D. McGhee - Guitar
Calvin Newborn - Guitar
Earl Phillips - Drums
Freddy Robinson - Guitar
Jimmy Rogers - Guitar
Walter Smith - Trombone
Abraham Smothers - Guitar
Otis Smokey Smothers - Guitar
Otis Spann - Piano
Willie Steel - Drums
Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
Charles Taylor - Sax (Tenor)
Ike Turner - Piano
Albert Williams - Piano
Jody Williams - Guitar



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