Howlin Wolf - The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
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Artist: Howlin WolfEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Rockin' Daddy
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Worried About My Baby
- What a Woman!
- Poor Boy
- Built for Comfort
- Who's Been Talking?
- Red Rooster
- Do the Do
- Highway 49
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Goin' Down Slow (Bonus Track)
- Killing Floor (Bonus Track)
- I Want To Have A Word With You (Bonus Track)
- Worried About My Baby (Rehearsal Take)
- The Red Rooster (Alternate Mix)
- What A Woman (Alternate Take)
- Who's Been Talking (Alternate Take)
- Worried About My baby (Alternate Take)
- I Ain't Superstitious (Alternate Take)
- Highway 49 (Alternate Take)
- Do The Do (Alternate Take)
- Poor Boy (Alternate Take)
- I Ain't Superstitious (Alternate Take)
- What A Woman (Alternate Mix)
- Rockin' Daddy (Alternate Mix)
Free Music Notes for The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Free Music Review: The Hour of The Wolf
Hit: 5 Stars
One of my first exposures to the world of Chicago-style blues, after a steady dirt of country-style Delta blues, was the Rolling Stones' version of the Willie Dixon classic Little Red Rooster back in the early 1960's. I thought that was a song to beat all songs and it had nothing to do its allegorical nature, you know, about sex. What, moreover, capped it for me the fact that it was originally banned in Boston- from the radio airwaves of the times. Naturally that made this teenager want to hear it even more.
All this is by way of saying-yes; the Stones did a great version of that song but if you really want it heard then you must go to the master- Howlin' Wolf. That big gravelly voiced man who, in pictures that I have seen, seems to be inhaling the microphone lets it all hang out as he struts his stuff on that number. In Do the Do, Little Red Rooster, Killing Floor and on and on the Wolf sweats, bleeds, sucks up the whiskey, has another one for good measure and gets down on his knees, sometimes literally, to belt out the blues.
In this two-disc set of Howlin' Wolf classics some of those Stones did exactly what I mentioned above-went to the source. Listen in to the dialogue when the Wolf tells these trained musicians how to do the do here on Little Red Rooster. And they are all ears. That says it all. Moreover, the musical excitement builds as song after song gets you in a true blue mood. This is all about sex, about whiskey, about hardworking weeks to get to fun-loving Saturday nights. Yes, the hour of the Wolf is just before the dawn. Get this masterwork. You will not regret it.
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions Poster
Shipping sixtysomething blues icon Howlin' Wolf to England in May 1970, accompanied by his guitarist Hubert Sumlin, was a crapshoot. Wolf's health was poor and he hadn't recorded outside of Chicago since 1954. Not surprisingly, Wolf's London excursion remains a mixed bag. Certainly, the participants' hearts were in their music--with the notable exception perhaps of Wolf's--but the result never quite gelled. When the Brit rockers such as Eric Clapton the Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts dug into his songs, they collided with the ornery bluesman. Producer Norman Dayron later overdubbed Steve Winwood and Lafayette Leake's keyboards (along with horns on a few tracks) to salvage the sessions. Of all the classic Chess albums, this is an odd choice to expand with a second disc of outtakes, none of which are particularly revelatory. Still, Clapton is fiery throughout, and Wolf, although not in prime form, is never less than convincing. Though often criticized, most notably by Clapton himself, Howlin' Wolf's London Sessions offers a worthy--though not essential--snapshot of the legend in his waning years. -Hal HorowitzBlues Music CDs
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