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Chester Burnett's ferocious growl was a staple of Chicago's electric-blues heyday. This 20-song compilation ranges from his 1951 debut "Moanin' at Midnight" with Willie Johnson on guitar to 1964's "Killing Floor" with Buddy Guy on guitar. His scratchy, sawed-off vocal approach and his energetic harmonica grace original classics such as "How Many More Years" and "Smokestack Lightnin'". By 1960, he became, along with Muddy Waters, the foremost interpreter of Willie Dixon's songs, lending his coarse voice to legendary Dixon cuts such as "Wang Dang Doodle", "Back Door Man", "Spoonful", "The Red Rooster", and "I Ain't Superstitious". Wolf's style was based on primal raw power, and he ranks among the genre's most distinctive performers. --Marc Greilsamer
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1-Moanin' At Midnight 2-How Many More Years 3-Evil 4-Forty-Four 5-Smokestack Lightnin' 6-I Asked For Water 7-Who's Been Talkin' 8-Sitting On Top Of The World 9-Howlin' For My Darling 10-Wang Dang Doodle 11-Back Door Man 12-Spoonful 13-Shake For Me 14-The Red Rooster 15-I Ain't Superstitious 16-Goin' Down Slow 17-Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy 18-Hidden Charms 19-Built For Comfort 20-Killing Floor (1951-64 'Chess')(55:53/20) "The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection".
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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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If you're only ever going to buy one Howlin' Wolf-album (why? why would you want to to that?), this is the one to get.
Howlin' Wolf recorded some two hundred songs during his long career, and with room for 20 only, some hard choices must have been made by the compilers.
Chester Arthur Burnett, the Howlin' Wolf, stood about 6'4" and weighed close to three hundred pounds in his prime, and his huge, gravelly roar of a voice sounds positively frightening on early cuts like "Moanin' At Midnight" and "How Many More Years", the latter track (probably) featuring Ike Turner on piano.
Howlin' Wolf recorded some two hundred songs during his long career, and with room for 20 only, some hard choices must have been made by the compilers.
Chester Arthur Burnett, the Howlin' Wolf, stood about 6'4" and weighed close to three hundred pounds in his prime, and his huge, gravelly roar of a voice sounds positively frightening on early cuts like "Moanin' At Midnight" and "How Many More Years", the latter track (probably) featuring Ike Turner on piano.
The songwriting credits are shared about equally by the omnipresent Willie Dixon, who plays bass on most of the cuts as well, and the Wolf himself, and "Hidden Charms" features perhaps the greatest guitar solo ever comitted to tape, courtesy of the hugely underestimated Hubert Sumlin, Wolf's right-hand man for more than twenty years.
Other highlights include "Forty-Four", "Smokestack Lightnin'", "The Red Rooster" and the phenomenal "Killing Floor", written by Howlin' Wolf, shamelessly stolen by Led Zeppelin and covered by several others, but never surpassed, and featured here in the ultimate version, sporting an incredible catchy guitar riff by Hubert Sumlin, and solos by Buddy Guy.
This is a corner stone in any serious blues collection. Hard-rocking, bone-crunching electric blues, burning with the sheer ferocity of Chester Burnett's incredible voice. There was never anyone like the Wolf, and it doesn't seem likely that there will be.
Oh, and while you're at it, get "His Best vol. II" as well.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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When the deep voice of Wolf breaks into your bedroom in Moanin' at Midnight you'll wonder what hit you. The songs on this album beautifully represent Wolf's versatility and talent and allow for several types of the Blues to emerge. Bebop is represented by How Many More Years and the Mississppi delta by Sitting on Top of the World (originally by the memphis sheiks). The eclectic mix of styles highlight the variety of Howlin' Wolf. When singing electric blues, backed by Hubert Sumlin, the power of Wolf really emerges and tracks like Hidden Charms and Shake for Me are true Chicago blues. However, the true gems on this album are in his less celebrated tracks like Who's Been Talkin and Moanin' at Midnight, while the great tracks of I Aint Superstitious and Killing Floor round of a great album.
If you want to hear great blues which spans Chicago and the Mississippi delta, if you want to hear the real commercial alternative to Muddy Waters in the Chicago blues and if you want to hear one of the greatest artists in music who inspired such legends as the Rolling Stones then buy this and hear some excellently compiled Howlin' Wolf.
If you want to hear great blues which spans Chicago and the Mississippi delta, if you want to hear the real commercial alternative to Muddy Waters in the Chicago blues and if you want to hear one of the greatest artists in music who inspired such legends as the Rolling Stones then buy this and hear some excellently compiled Howlin' Wolf.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent overview of the music of Howling Wolf in terms of songs and sound quality. Just amazing how such a limited range of musical instruments and a voice can provide such a variety of rhythms and effects.
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The most instantly recognisable voice in the Blues
In the U K Howlin' Wolf was issued by the London American label around 1958 via an EP probably selling 10 copies. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Richard
Dire..............
Like most "stellar" bluesmen of the 50's and 60's, 90% of their studio output was absolutely appalling: sheer amateur rubbish - and embarassing to boot. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by Mr. Alan D. Woolf
like draging hot glass across asphalt
This has to be one of my favourite blues albums, this really is good. Once you've heard killing floor you will be sold, and once you hear wolf's voice you will never forget it.
Published on 23 May 2005 by Christopher C. Stevens
One of the greats.
A solid collection from one of the greats of the blues. If you don't know that Howlin' Wolf is himself a classic you know nothing about the blues. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2004
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