Spoonful
Tail Dragger
Smokestack Lightnin'
Moanin' At Midnight
Built For Comfort
The Red Rooster
Evil
Down In The Bottom
Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
Back Door Man
Frogtoon Music Album Info: The Howlin' Wolf Album
Published: 01 Jan 2013, 22:34
The Howlin' Wolf Album Is A 1969 Album By Howlin' Wolf Which Mixed Blues With Psychedelic Rock Arrangements On Several Of Howlin' Wolf's Classic Songs. Howlin' Wolf Strongly Disliked The Album And Chess Records Referenced This Fact On The Album's Cover. The Album Peaked At #69 On The Billboard Black Albums Chart. In 1968 Chess Records Made An Attempt To Modernize The Sound Of Bluesmen Howlin' Wolf And Muddy Waters By Convincing Them To Record Jimi Hendrix-Inspired Psychedelic Arrangements Resulting In The Albums Electric Mud And The Howlin' Wolf Album. The Recording Sessions For The Howlin' Wolf Album Featured The Same Musicians As Electric Mud. Howlin' Wolf Disliked The Proposed Sound Which He Did Not Consider To Be Blues. According To Guitarist Pete Cosey During The Recording Sessions Howlin' Wolf "looked At Me And He Said 'Why Don't You Take Them Wah-Wahs And All That Other Shit And Go Throw It Off In The Lake — On Your Way To The Barber Shop?'"