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The Collection

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date September 25, 2000
A welcome budget price collection by one of the most charismatic and influential blues artists of all time. Many of Wolf's best known numbers are here, commencing with 'How Many More Years' from his first session in 1951 in Sam Phillips' Memphis studio, and continuing through the 1954 to 1965 period with Chess Records. The material is licensed from MCA, and therefore in excellent sound quality, with stereo mixes being used on some of the later dates. Just reading the titles reveals that most of the essential tracks are present, including the ones that were to feature strongly in the white blues boom of the 1960s: 'The Little Red Rooster', 'Spoonful', 'Killing Floor', and the inevitable 'Smokestack Lightnin''.

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The Howlin' Wolf Anthology

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date May 21, 2007
The first song on this album is cut short. Quite annoying when I bought the album specificaly for this song. And I feel that Amazon should flag this up at the top of the page. No one buys an original album to only get half of a song!

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The Howlin Wolf London Session

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date March 17, 2003
This is a wonderful album and has a lot to recommend it. It's a builder, and the more you hear it, the more you realise is there. I would just suggest you get a copy, you won't be disappointed. Great stuff.

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Howlin' Wolf / Moanin' In The Moonlight

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date December 23, 1999
This is the most essential single Howlin' Wolf CD there could possibly be and would make an excellent first purchase for a Howlin' Wolf novice. It comprises The Wolf's first two long-player releases, both what we would now regard as compilations, and was put out by Chess/MCA in 1986.
Moanin' In The Moonlight came out in America in 1959 and was made up of 12 selected A-sides and B-sides from the many 78's he released between 1951 and 1958, all monaural, including such classics as Smokestack Lightnin' and I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline). The LP kicks off with Moanin' At Midnight and How Many More Years, comprising both sides of his first Chess single, recorded in Memphis by Sam Phillips at what would become the Sun studios, long before Howlin' ... Read More:

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Sings the Blues

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date May 31, 2004
I can only endorse Lawrence Upton's splendid review - this album is unmissable for anyone purporting to be a blues 'addict'!! Personally I prefer this stuff to the Chess sides which were a bit too polished production-wise for my liking and lacking the rawness and sheer spontaneity of this music making by Wolf and his superb band. Does anyone know what happened to his superb guitarist Willie Johnson? He doesn't seem to have recorded much after this.

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His Best Vol.2

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date April 24, 2000
An excellent companion volume to MCA/Chess's must-have "His Best" collection, "His Best vol. II" focuses mainly on Howlin' Wolf's lesser-known songs.

The first "His Best" CD contained almost all of Wolf's best-known material, as if the label never planned a sequel, but these second-tier songs aren't cast-offs, they are merely forgotten or unappreciated classics. They might not all be as monumental as the songs on "His Best" vol. I, but songs like "The Natchez Burnin'" and the fiery slide guitar workout "Down In The Bottom", which didn't make the first cut, rank among Howlin' Wolf's best.

Other highlights include Wolf's self-penned latter-day songs "Louise", "Don't Laugh At Me" and the menacing "Commit A Crime", as well as a awesome version ... Read More:

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The Chess Box

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date December 01, 2002
The problem for anyone who recently 'gets into' this music (Chicago Blues) is that there is no shortage of compilations for the Greats (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley etc.), presumably because they initially didn't record for albums. The decision to choose which set best represents the artist is made harder by the different recording labels with whom they recorded. And to make matters worse the copyright expiry on older recordings can lead to extremely careless analogue to digital transfers, with little thought about the compilation focus (greatest hits? representative?)
No problems with this box set. Granted, it's very expensive. But the sound quality is so very good. The instruments, especially Hubert Sumlin's guitar work, are not dampened or muted. Best of ... Read More:

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His Best

by: Howlin Wolf

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This has to be one of my favourite blues albums, this really is good. Once you've heard killing floor you will be sold, and once you hear wolf's voice you will never forget it.

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Real Folk Blues Vol.1 & 2

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date April 21, 2003
Like the two long-players before it (Moanin' In The Moonlight and Howlin' Wolf - the "rocking chair" album), these two albums, released in 1966 and 1967, were collections of material recorded over a period of more than a decade, mostly previously available on singles. The series of Folk Blues albums had been designed by Chess Records to package the blues to a new, younger audience, and were compiled and annotated by Willie Dixon, who produced a number of Howlin' Wolf records as well as playing bass and writing some classic songs.
Both albums present a coherent overview of the Wolf's distinctive viscerality in the company of the most simpatico and skilled players he could have found.
The Real Folk Blues consists of A-sides and B-sides recorded ... Read More:

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His Best

by: Howlin' Wolf

Release Date March 20, 1999
This has to be one of my favourite blues albums, this really is good. Once you've heard killing floor you will be sold, and once you hear wolf's voice you will never forget it.