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Howlin' Wolf - His Best (1997) [Chess 50th Anniversary Collection] Repost

Posted By: jclane

Date: 7 Oct 2011 04:38:49

Howlin' Wolf - His Best (1997) [Chess 50th Anniversary Collection] Repost

His Best is a greatest hits compilation album by American blues musician Howlin' Wolf. The album was originally released on April 8, 1997 by MCA and Chess Records. The album was a part of the 50th anniversary of Chess Records, which was in that same year (see 1997 in music). Ten years later, on April 17, 2007, the album was re-released by Chess and Geffen Records as The Definitive Collection.

The album features several of his most famous songs including "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Spoonful", and "Killing Floor".

With 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. [His Best contains the same tracks as the 2007 Geffen release The Definitive Collection].

by Cub Koda - Allmusic

Track Listing

1. "Moanin' at Midnight" (Chester Burnett) – 2:56
2. "How Many More Years" (Willie Dixon) – 2:43
3. "Evil (Is Going On)" (Burnett) – 2:55
4. "Forty-Four" (Burnett) – 2:49
5. "Smokestack Lightnin'" (Burnett) – 3:09
6. "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" (Burnett) – 2:52
7. "Who's Been Talkin'" (Burnett) – 2:24
8. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Burnett) – 2:34
9. "Howlin' for My Darlin'" (Burnett, Dixon) – 2:33
10. "Wang Dang Doodle" (Dixon) – 2:25
11. "Back Door Man" (Dixon) – 2:51
12. "Spoonful" (Dixon) – 2:45
13. "Shake for Me" (Dixon) – 2:18
14. "The Red Rooster" (Dixon) – 2:29
15. "I Ain't Superstitious" (Dixon) – 2:56
16. "Goin' Down Slow" (James B. Oden) – 4:04
17. "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" (Dixon) – 3:07
18. "Hidden Charms" (Dixon) – 2:23
19. "Built for Comfort" (Dixon) – 2:39
20. "Killing Floor" (Burnett) – 2:49

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Personnel

• Howlin' Wolf – vocals, harmonica, guitar
• Willie Johnson – guitar
• Willie Steele – drums on "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years"
• Ike Turner – piano on "How Many More Years"
• Albert Williams – piano on "How Many More Years"
• Sam Phillips – producer on "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years"
• Otis Spann – piano
• Jody Williams – guitar on "Evil (Is Going On)" and "Forty-Four"
• Hubert Sumlin – guitar
• Willie Dixon – vocals on "Goin' Down Slow", bass, producer
• Earl Phillips – drums
• Hosea Lee Kennard – piano
• Otis "Smokey" Smothers – guitar on "I Asked for Water" and "Who's Been Talkin'"
• Adolph "Billy" Duncan – tenor saxophone on "Who's Been Talkin'"
• Alfred Elkins – bass on "Who's Been Talkin'" and "Sitting on Top of the World"
• Abb Locke – tenor saxophone on "Howlin' for My Darlin'"
• S. P. Leary – drums on "Howlin' for My Darlin'"
• Abe Smothers – guitar on "Howlin' for My Darlin'"
• Freddy King – guitar
• Freddie Robinson – guitar
• Fred Below – drums
• Johnny Jones – piano on "Shake for Me" and "The Red Rooster"
• Jimmy Rogers – guitar
• Henry Gray – piano on "I Ain't Superstitious" and "Goin' Down Slow"
• Sam Lay – drums
• J. T. Brown – tenor saxophone
• Donald Hankins – baritone saxophone
• Lafayette Leake – piano
• Buddy Guy – bass guitar, guitar on "Killing Floor"
• Leonard Chess – producer
• Phil Chess – producer
• Andy McKaie – producer, compiler
• Erick Labson – digital remastering

Release Date: April 8, 1997
Recorded: May 14 or August 1951 at Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee, May 25, 1954 – August 1964 in Chicago, Illinois
Format: CD, Compilation
Length: 55:41
Producer: Sam Phillips, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Willie Dixon, Andy McKaie
Compiler : Andy McKaie

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