mp3: Howlin' Wolf - Going Back Home Going Back Home is the side with which I start my latest travelling-themed NTS radio show . It was recorded on a cold 1956 December day in Chicago. Howlin' Wolf sings about leaving the city and returning to the country. Like many others, he had migrated from Mississippi to Chicago during the 1950s. It features the guitar sounds of two other bluesmen who made the same journey North, Willie Johnson and Otis 'Smokey' Smothers. Johnson is remembered as an electric guitar [...]
Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters Click above for more info NPR recently reviewed Chess's Howlin' Wolf's masters from the Chess label in and article titled: Howlin' Wolf: A Blues Legend With An Earthy Sound by Ed Ward The four-disc set is titled Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters 1931-1960.
John Lee Hooker Don't know about you, but my eyes are still sorta glazed over from the long weekend. No better time to blow some blues for Monday. MP3: "Howling For My Darling (or Baby)" by Howlin' Wolf MP3: "I'm Shakin' " by Little Willie John MP3: "Automobile" by Lightnin' Hopkins MP3: "Delia" by Blind Willie McTell [...]
Of Montreal @ The Howlin' Wolf NOLA - 3/10/12 || Photo by Joshua BrastedReview by Brendan Twist || Photos by Joshua Brasted Hipsters packed The Howlin' Wolf on Saturday night to see Of Montreal, the prolific, Georgia-based indie rock group of songwriter and provocateur Kevin Barnes. They didn't appear to mind that Pitchfork had crapped [...]
Moon Taxi plays the Maison on Saturday, March 31st with Brass-a-HolicsAfter a quick breather following Mardi Gras, the concert calendar heats back up in a big way with three major events including Foburg Fest, The Buku Music & Arts Project and Hogs for the Cause going down over three consecutive weekends. Throw in St. Patrick's [...]
Listen to Tom Jones Get 'Evil' With Jack White On Howlin' Wolf Cover.
Have a listen to this new mp3 from the TOM JONES , a cover of the HOWLIN' WOLF's EVIL , as produced by the JACK WHITE. And when you reach the three and a half mark, don't choon out just cause the choon fades, she'll return a few or so laters.
Check back periodically, this post will be updated as more shows are announced. Go crazy. THURSDAY, APRIL 26TH Stanton Moore Trio w/ Anders Osborne @ Blue Nile - 9:30 p.m. ($15 - TICKETS) New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Gala w/ Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue + Big Sam's Funky Nation @ Hilton Riverside Hotel [...]
After playing four festival-related one-off shows last year (two at SF's Outside Lands, Bonnaroo and Voodoo Experience), the four original members of The Meters have announced their first New Orleans club gig in 30 years for a second Saturday late night show during Jazz Fest on May 5th at The Howlin' Wolf. Although it still [...]
I don't know what it is about this first month of 2012, but the blogosphere has been pumping out tracks at a rate that would certainly have Tommy Callahan III saying something like this. The Record Company have a few things in common with The Alabama Shakes , soulful, funky southern rock, and yet, they have more of an upbeat Howlin Wolf , new-age Canned Heat , grimey sound that hurts SO good. I don't want you to wait any longer, I loved every track... Just Listen. Thanks to MiddleClassWhiteNoise for the [...]
This post will be updated as more shows are announced Carnival season kicks off today with the Phunny Phorty Phellows Uptown parade gearing up the Twelfth Night festivities. As always, the Winter/Spring concert calendars will heat up in a big way as the parade krewes begin to roll. Here's a listing of concerts to pair [...]
With the post-New Years Eve brain fog lifting and the overdue winter chill blanketing the city, it's time to start turning our attention to all that 2012 has in store. Before Carnival season really heats up in February, right off the bat in the new year, visits to the city by old favorites (B.B. King [...]
December's headline death probably is that of the great Cesária Évora , who emerged from the tiny West African island of Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony. But as a soul fan, percussion maestro Ralph MacDonald is my headline departure of the month. He wrote some stone-cold classics and appeared on an impressive catalogue of soul and fusion albums, including those released in their heyday by Bill Withers, George Benson, Donny Hathaway, Ashford & Simpson, Brothers Johnson, Margie Joseph, Patti Austin, Grover Washington, Maynard Ferguson, The Crusaders, Michael Franks, Eric Gale, Bob James, Herbie Mann, [...]
"Baby, my love will follow you, as the years go passing by..." Which basically means I'm wishing you a very funky 2012, dear readers. Albert King - As The Years Go Passing By The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year The Rumour - Frozen Years Leo Kottke - The Driving Of The Year Nail Patti Smith - My Blakean Year Howlin' Wolf - How Many [...]
Check out the accompanying LMB NOLA & Friends Year In Review post here It's always interesting to hear what artists have to say when recalling past concert experiences and in particular, which ones stick out in their mind as "memorable". After an evening up on-stage, musicians take home an entirely different recollection of their live [...]
On a cold Winter morning, before you had your first cup of coffee, Hubert Sumlin's guitar was permanently hushed in a funeral home in an anonymous town in New Jersey. Mick Jagger and Keef footed the bill because that's what you do when you have a billion bucks built off the clean yet filthy guitar lines that once exploded from the guitar of Howlin Wolf's chief scientist. Huburt Sumlin isn't a household name. Never was. You certainly won't be reading about him on your favorite tastemaking blog because that's not the way to hemorrhage clicks or snatch ad [...]
Sometimes you just need to listen to the classics - both departed but both treasured. contrasted with The Who
Chicago Tribune (MCT) -- CHICAGO - When Howlin' Wolf romped through "Wang Dang Doodle" or thundered in "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy," the snarling guitar that accompanied him belonged to one of the greatest bluesmen to pick up the instrument: Hubert Sumlin. The cry of Sumlin's guitar - riffing hard one moment, sighing poetically the next - helped define Wolf's sound, even if Sumlin never attained a fraction of the fame of his celebrated boss. In the wake of...
In my quest to learn more about "The Blues", I came across this fantastic collection of Howlin' Wolf 's work. The compilation features fourteen tracks and both the quality of the recordings and the styles vary greatly throughout. One track will be a standard blues and the next will have a life of its own, powerfully hypnotic in it's raw intensity. Such as this one. No Place to Go
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