Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2011
Label: Not Now Records
Track List
Side A
- Spoonful
- Evil
- Smokestack Lightnin’
- Don’t Mess With My Baby
- How Many More Years
- I’ve Been Abused
- I Better Go Now
Side B
- Forty Four
- I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
- My Life
- Nature
- Poor Boy
- Mr. Airplane Man
- Who Will Be Next?
Side C
- Moanin’ For My Baby
- Crying At Daybreak
- Who’s Been Talkin’
- Baby, Baby How Long?
- Back Door Man
- Change My Way
- Shake For Me
Side D
- The Wolf Is At Your Door
- Moanin’ At Midnight
- The Natchez Burnin’
- You Can’t Be Beat
- No Place To Go
- Goin’ Back Home
- 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.
