15-08-2020 > BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1965-1959

Howlin' Wolf

15-08-2020 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES circle 1965-1959 # Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones, Little Walter, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Reverend Gary Davis, Curtis Jones, Al Smith, Snooks Eaglin, Lonnie Donegan, Jack McDuff

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1965-1959

A primal, ferocious blues belter with a roster of classics rivaling anyone else, and a sandpaper growl of a voice that has been widely imitated. In the history of the blues, there has never been anyone quite like the Howlin' Wolf. Six foot three and close to 300 pounds in his salad days, the Wolf was the primal force of the music spun out to its ultimate conclusion. 
Howlin' Wolf 
Killing Floor  (Chester Burnett)
Tail Dragger (Willie Dixon)
The Natchez Burnin' (Chester Burnett)
from The Real Folk Blues 1965
In the mid-'60s, Chess Records released a great series of compilations of '40s and '50s singles by some of its best blues artists, all of them called The Real Folk Blues. The Howlin' Wolf entry is possibly the best of the batch, and one of the best introductions to this mercurial electric bluesman. Opening with the savage "Killing Floor," the album doesn't let up in intensity, and it happily focuses on Wolf's less-anthologized sides, which gives the album a freshness a lot of blues compilations lack... every track is pure Chicago blues at its finest...

The premier British rock band for over half a century, creators of the sound and style imitated by countless groups. By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title.
The Rolling Stones
Confessin' the Blues  (Walter Brown / Jay McShann)
2120 South Michigan Avenue  (Mick Jagger / Nanker Phelge / Keith Richards)
from 12 x 5 1964
The evolution from blues to rock accelerated with the Rolling Stones' second American LP. They turned soul into guitar rock for the hits "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is on My Side" (the latter of which was their first American Top Ten single). "2120 South Michigan Avenue" is a great instrumental blues-rock jam; "Around and Around" is one of their best Chuck Berry covers; and "If You Need Me" reflects an increasing contemporary soul influence...

A major figure of post-war blues, brought the harmonica out of its rural setting into an urban context.
Little Walter
It Ain't Right (Little Walter)
Crazy Mixed Up World (Willie Dixon / Bruce Willis)
Confessin' the Blues (Walter Brown / Jay McShann)
from Confessin' the Blues 1953-1963 (1966)
...Still, for those who can't afford either of those pricey sets, this disc, coupled with the two best-of volumes, and the other Walter compilations, fills in some holes that are well worth filling. Made up of songs cut between 1953 and 1959 -- none of which had ever appeared on LP before the original 1974 release of this collection -- the selection features Walter in his prime, playing alongside Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Louis Myers or Luther Tucker on guitar (with Muddy Waters present on slide on one indispensable track, "Rock Bottom"), mostly Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on the drums, with Lafayette Leake or Otis Spann on piano...