The Howlin' Wolf Album is a 1969 album by Howlin' Wolf which mixed blues with rock arrangements on several of Howlin' Wolf's classic songs. Howlin' Wolf strongly disliked the album, and Chess Records referenced this fact on the album's cover. The album peaked at #69 on the Billboard Black Albums chart.
In 1968, Chess Records made an attempt to modernize the sound of bluesmen Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters by convincing them to record Jimi Hendrix-inspired psychedelic arrangements resulting in the albums Electric Mud and The Howlin' Wolf Album. The recording sessions for The Howlin' Wolf Album featured the same musicians as Electric Mud. Howlin' Wolf disliked the proposed sound, which he did not consider to be blues.
About Howlin Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.
With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "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 its wits." A number of songs written or popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Back Door Man", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful"—have become blues and blues rock standards.
At 6 feet, 6 inches (198 cm) and close to 300 pounds (136 kg), he was an imposing presence with one of the loudest and most memorable voices of all the "classic" 1950s Chicago blues singers. This rough-edged, slightly fearsome musical style is often contrasted with the less crude but still powerful presentation of his contemporary and professional rival, Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Little Walter Jacobs, and Muddy Waters are usually regarded in retrospect as the greatest blues artists who recorded for Chess in Chicago.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #51 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
Tracklist:
1. Spoonful – Willie Dixon (3:52)
2. Tail Dragger – Dixon (4:33)
3. Smokestack Lightning – Howlin Wolf (3:56)
4. Moanin at Midnight – Howlin Wolf, Taub (3:15)
5. Built for Comfort – Dixon (5:11)
6. The Red Rooster – Dixon, Howlin Wolf (3:50)
7. Evil – Dixon, Howlin Wolf (4:06)
8. Down in the Bottom – Dixon (2:45)
9. Three Hundred Pounds of Joy – Dixon (2:35)
10. Back Door Man – Dixon (6:51)
Personnel:
Howlin' Wolf: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Gene Barge: horn, electric sax
Pete Cosey: guitar, bowed guitar
Hubert Sumlin: guitar
Roland Faulkner: guitar
Morris Jennings: drums
Don Myrick: flute
Louis Satterfield: bass
Phil Upchurch: bass, guitar
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