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Howlin' Wolf - His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (1997)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 21 Aug 2024 18:27:18

Part of the Chess 50th Anniversary Collection series, this digitally remastered set contains 20 of Howlin' Wolf's biggest and best Chess label recordings including "Spoonful", "The Red Rooster", "Killing Floor" and "Smokestack Lightning". Packaging features great new liner notes and graphics.

Chester Burnett's ferocious growl was a staple of Chicago's electric-blues heyday. This 20-song compilation ranges from his 1951 debut "Moanin' at Midnight" with Willie Johnson on guitar to 1964's "Killing Floor" with Buddy Guy on guitar. His scratchy, sawed-off vocal approach and his energetic harmonica grace original classics such as "How Many More Years" and "Smokestack Lightnin'." By 1960, he became, along with Muddy Waters, the foremost interpreter of Willie Dixon's songs, lending his coarse voice to legendary Dixon cuts such as "Wang Dang Doodle," "Back Door Man," "Spoonful," "The Red Rooster," and "I Ain't Superstitious." Wolf's style was based on primal raw power, and he ranks among the genre's most distinctive performers.

Review by Marc Greilsamer

ith the exception of a vinyl compilation issued in the early '80s (His Greatest Sides, Vol. 1), there'd never really ever been a single-disc Howlin' Wolf best-of package available. That all changed with this entry in MCA/Chess' 50th Anniversary series, a 20-track retrospective that serves as the perfect introduction to the man and his music, some of the very best the blues has to offer. While some naysayers will always decry the exclusion – or inclusion – of any given number of tracks on any artist's best-of compilation, it's pretty hard to fault what's been collected here. Starting with the two-sided smash that brought him from Memphis to Chicago ("Moanin' at Midnight" b/w "How Many More Years"), this compilation hits all the high points and essential tracks, illustrating how his music developed into the mid-'60s. Eleven of the 20 tunes on here are either written or co-written by Willie Dixon, and Wolf's original takes on "Back Door Man," "Spoonful," "The Red Rooster," "Wang Dang Doodle," and "I Ain't Superstitious" are truly the definitive ones, a place where personality and material symbiotically become as one. Even if you have already have this material, die-hard Wolf fans – and audiophiles in particular – will want to investigate this package as the master transfers used here are absolutely stunning, with stereo mixes of "Killing Floor," "Built for Comfort," "Hidden Charms" (with the full-length Hubert Sumlin guitar solo), "Shake for Me," and the long version of "Going Down Slow" being particular standouts. This is a set so essential that it should be on everyone's Top Ten first purchases in building the perfect blues collection. While Wolf's music will take you to many places (both musically and spiritually), here's where you start to absorb it all.

Review by Cub Koda, Allmusic.com

Howlin' Wolf at Allmusic
Howlin' Wolf at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Moanin' At Midnight (02:56)
02. How Many More Years (02:42)
03. Evil (02:54)
04. Forty Four (02:48)
05. Smokestack Lightnin' (03:07)
06. I Asked For Water (02:51)
07. Who's Been Talkin' (02:22)
08. Sitting On Top Of The World (02:33)
09. Howlin' For My Darling (02:32)
10. Wang Dang Doodle (02:23)
11. Back Door Man (02:49)
12. Spoonful (02:44)
13. Shake For M (02:16)
14. The Red Rooster (02:28)
15. I Ain't Superstitious (02:53)
16. Goin' Down Slow (04:01)
17. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (03:06)
18. Hidden Charms (02:22)
19. Built For Comfort (02:38)
20. Killing Floor (02:50)

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