Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Howlin' Wolf Sings The Blues 41

Howlin' Wolf Sings The Blues
Howlin 'Wolf aka Chester Arthur Burnett (1910 -1976) was an influential Blues singer, harmonica and guitar player. Mississippi born, he and other musicians from the area farmed and learned guitar and harmonica. After World War II he served in the Army, he was the local celebrity, along with several other men playing Blues. Finally, he was signed to a recording contract and moved to Chicago in 1951 by Chess Records, IL to.

It was in 1950 one of his biggest hitera Smokestack Lightnin ', here sung 1964 by Wolf Blues in Britain on a tour:


Chess Records, the Willie Dixon song for Wolff writes that it will take some of his most popular. "Backdoor man" was the song of the year:


With his own band in 1950, and the wolf continued touring and in 1960, and his long-time guitarist Hubert Sumlin leadership throughout the recording. Here is a video of American Wolf Sunnyland Slim with their song "Shake It", played with the Blues, 1964, of people taken from the tour:


Late 1960 and early 1970's Wolf's health declines. The kidneys of a heart attack, was severely damaged in an accident in 1970 has been automated. Kidney failure in 1976, for which he succumbed.

In his major Howlin 'Wolf Man was a huge, 6' 6 ", Up to 300 hundred pounds, and his voice was just too long. Sam Wolff and sign an agreement at first, he comments," When I heard, I said, 'This is me . This is where the human soul, not die. He is the biggest feet I've never seen a human being is about six foot six. Big Foot Chester, a name they used to call him. He will sit down with the feet planted wide apart, but the French harp playing, and I tell you, the best show you can see in today's session, one Chester Burnett, who will work in my studio. God, you will see that the owner will face the heat when he Sang. His neck and his eyes, and light you, and your friends will see on the vessel, which was on his mind. Sang with the soul for heaven's sake. "

His last album of Howlin 'Wolf and Hubert Sumlin played lead guitar on the 1970 transfer of: