Howlin’ Wolf – Blues From Hell (Vinyl 2LP)

Description

*This is a Vinyl LP*

Release Date:  2011

Label:  Not Now Records

 

Track List

Side A

1. Spoonful
2. Evil
3. Smokestack Lightnin’
4. Don’t Mess With My Baby
5. How Many More Years
6. I’ve Been Abused
7. I Better Go Now

Side B

1. Forty Four
2. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
3. My Life
4. Nature
5. Poor Boy
6. Mr. Airplane Man
7. Who Will Be Next?

Side C

1. Moanin’ For My Baby
2. Crying At Daybreak
3. Who’s Been Talkin’
4. Baby, Baby How Long?
5. Back Door Man
6. Change My Way
7. Shake For Me

Side D

1. The Wolf Is At Your Door
2. Moanin’ At Midnight
3. The Natchez Burnin’
4. You Can’t Be Beat
5. No Place To Go
6. Goin’ Back Home
7. Little Red Rooster

 

Notes

The songs on this set, dating from 1951 to 1961, sum up the first half of Wolf’s recording career with Chess, a period when he sung mostly self-penned compositions. “Smokestack Lightnin’” is probably the most covered and “How Many More Years” was the first and most successful of four songs Wolf placed on the Billboard national R&B charts in the 1950s. Though he died in 1976, his spirit lives on – not only at the annual Howlin’ Wolf Memorial Blues Festival held in Mississippi, but also in the music that features on this superb 2 LP set.