Howlin' Wolf
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The Great Unknowns No. 11: Howlin' Wolf Burnette
Profile by Guy Stevens, Record Mirror, 31 August 1963
WHEN PYE records launched their second R & B campaign, one of the artists involved was a gentleman by the strange name of Howlin' Wolf. ...
The American Folk-Blues Festival: All About The Croaker!
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 10 October 1964
Long John Baldry talks to RM's David Griffiths about the Folk-Blues Festival ...
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 24 October 1964
BLUES FALL ON CROYDON ...
Howlin' Wolf: The Marquee, London, November 26, 1964
Live Review by John Broven, Blues Unlimited, January 1965
FOLLOWING HIS performances at Croydon and elsewhere, Wolf's first visit to an English club was eagerly awaited by local blues enthusiasts, He was accorded a ...
Marshall Chess: End of the road for the Howlin' Wolfs, Muddies and Sonny Boys
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 February 1965
FROM NOW ON, many of your favourite American rhythm and blues records will appear under a label called Chess. This is owned by two brothers ...
Interview by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, September 1966
(Howling Wolf is a well-known Chicago blues singer, who performs and records with an amplified band in the Chicago style. This interview was taped in ...
Albums from Howlin' Wolf, Dr. Ross and Lightnin' Hopkins
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 October 1966
RARE ITEMS FROM HOWLIN' WOLF ...
The Men Who Make The Blues: Howlin' Wolf
Profile by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 29 March 1969
HOWLIN' WOLF is, as his name suggests, one of the "heavy" bluesmen. A 6ft 3in singer, weighing 280 lbs or more, he is as tough ...
The Dave Godin Column: Howlin' Wolf
Essay by Dave Godin, Blues & Soul, April 1969
I RECENTLY READ a most scathing and critical review of the new Howlin' Wolf album which has been issued in the States on Cadet-Concept (the ...
Howlin' Wolf: The Howlin' Wolf Album (Chess CRLS4543)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 26 April 1969
ON THE front cover of THE HOWLIN' WOLF ALBUM (Chess CRLS4543) is printed the message: "This is Howlin' Wolf's New Album. He doesn't like it. ...
Albums from Creedence Clearwater Revival, Howlin' Wolf et al
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, August 1969
BAYOU COUNTRY is the second album by Creedence Clearwater Revival and they are undoubtedly the most joyful, exciting rock and roll band since Little Richard. ...
Payin' Some Dues — Blues at Ann Arbor
Live Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 18 August 1969
"I'd like for them to hear the real things. I don't think yet that most of the white people like my music because it's blues. I ...
Howlin' Wolf, The Groundhogs: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 15 November 1969
THERE WAS nothing new about Chester Burnett's routine at the Marquee Club on Thursday, but the Wolf, nearing the end of his third British tour, ...
Howlin' Wolf: Wolf Gathers His Flock In London
Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 16 May 1970
WHEN THE early 1960s gave birth to the R&B boom in Britain, it was artists like Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters ...
Overview by Colin Escott, Record Mirror, 13 November 1971
IN 1950 WHEN Sam Phillips gave up his job as band promoter for the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and opened the studio of the Memphis ...
Profile by Ben Edmonds, Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival program, November 1972
"Howlin' Wolf, man...he's the guts of America spilling out on the floor, that's all."Greil Marcus/CREEM ...
Howlin' Wolf: Max's Kansas City, New York NY
Live Review by Howard Wuelfing, The Village Voice, 7 June 1973
WELL, IT'S OFFICIAL now. New York is the glitter capital of the rock world and Max's is its major stronghold. That's what an article in ...
Howlin' Wolf: All The Man Wants To Do Is Sing The Blues
Report by Jim Esposito, The Gainesville Sun, 8 September 1974
Born Chester Burnett on June 10, 1910 on a plantation near Tupelo, Mississippi, Howlin' Wolf is a legendary black bluesman, ranking with the likes of ...
Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter
Review by Don Snowden, Pasadena Guardian, November 1975
Howlin' Wolf: Change My Way (CHV 418)Sonny Boy Williamson: One Way Out (CHV 417)Little Walter: Confessin' The Blues (CHV 416)Chess Vintage Series (Chess/Janus Records) ...
Obituary by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 24 January 1976
"I was just a country boy, glad to get some sounds on wax" ...
Obituary by Dave Godin, Blues & Soul, 27 January 1976
"I have had my fun, even if I never get well no more. Oh my health is failing, oh yes, I'm going down slow..." ...
Various Artists Sun Records: The Blues Years 1950 — 1956
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 February 1986
"The blues is a chair, not a design for a chair, or a better chair… it is the first chair. It is a chair for ...
Howlin' Wolf: Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited
Sleeve notes by Don Snowden, Chess/MCA Records, 1992
BY 1972, HOWLIN' WOLF was on the downhill side of his fabled career as one of the twin titans of Chicago blues. ...
Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, 1998
INTRODUCTION: I had heard that Hubert Sumlin was a genuinely nice guy. But before I ventured uptown to a Manhattan club to interview him, there ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by j. poet, Paste, 23 January 2004
THE DEBATE ABOUT precisely when the blues became rock'n'roll will go on forever, but the footage of The Howlin' Wolf Story makes a good case ...
Talkin' 'Bout A Spoonful: Hubert Sumlin, Eric Clapton and the evolution of blues guitar
Essay by Adam Blake, Cosmik Debris, 22 February 2004
FOR THE RECORD, I would like to state that my favourite bluesmen are Sonny Boy (Aleck 'Rice' Miller) Williamson and Professor Longhair, neither of whom ...
Hoochie Coochie Men: Cadillac Records (dir. Darnell Martin)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Bill Holdship, Metro Times, 10 December 2008
Hollywood's version of the Chess Records story combines the best and worst of the classic rock 'n' roll biopic ...
Obituary by Tony Russell, The Guardian, 5 December 2011
Revered blues guitarist who combined musically with Howlin' Wolf "like gasoline and a lit match" ...
Howlin' Wolf's London Sessions
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blues, November 2013
NOW REVERED AS a lynchpin moment in the history of the blues, Howlin' Wolf's 1970 London Sessions with a superstar assemblage of England's rock royalty, ...
Peter Guralnick: New Bio Finally Gives Rock and Roll Architect Sam Phillips His Due
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 29 December 2015
WELL, AS Guralnick clarifies shortly into his foreword, if Sam Phillips didn't exactly "invent" rock and roll, he at least discovered it. Or so it ...
Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 26 February 2016
SAM PHILLIPS, the man behind Sun Records was easily one of the most important figures in the history of American popular music. ...
The History of the Blues-Rock Press: Part 2
Retrospective by Don Armstrong, Music Journalism History, March 2020
Based on a series of posts published in Music Journalism History from November 9, 2019 to March 13, 2020. ...
see also Hubert Sumlin
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