Howlin' Wolf • The Howlin' Wolf Album

Review by Steve Leggett

Born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, Chester Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, helped modernize the country blues with his powerful vocal style and harmonica work and his ability to connect with an audience no matter what stage he prowled. This album, though, originally released in 1969 on the Chess Records subsidiary Cadet Records, is hardly typical Wolf, and the bluesman himself hated it, which may in some way have contributed to the album's odd cult standing. The idea was as simple as it was probably misguided, an attempt to modernize Wolf's sound into psychedelic Jimi Hendrix land, and the results were, well, odd at best, and laughable and lamentable at worst, and through no fault of Wolf's, who obviously tried his best to make sense of all of it. Howlin' Wolf completists will want this for its novelty value, but it's far from an accurate portrait of this powerful bluesman's talent and appeal.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-howlin-wolfs-new-album-mw0000546845

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Reseña de Steve Leggett

Nacido en Aberdeen, Mississippi, Chester Burnett, más conocido por su nombre artístico Howlin' Wolf, ayudó a modernizar el country blues con su poderoso estilo vocal y su trabajo con la armónica y su habilidad para conectar con una audiencia sin importar el escenario en el que estuviera. Este álbum, sin embargo, lanzado originalmente en 1969 en la filial de Chess Records, Cadet Records, no es el típico Wolf, y el propio bluesman lo odiaba, lo que puede haber contribuido de alguna manera a la extraña posición de culto del álbum. La idea era tan simple como probablemente equivocada, un intento de modernizar el sonido de Wolf en la tierra psicodélica de Jimi Hendrix, y los resultados fueron, bueno, extraños en el mejor de los casos, y risibles y lamentables en el peor, y sin culpa alguna de Wolf, que obviamente hizo todo lo posible para darle sentido a todo ello. Los completistas de Howlin' Wolf querrán esto por su valor de novedad, pero está lejos de ser un retrato exacto del talento y atractivo de este poderoso bluesman.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-howlin-wolfs-new-album-mw0000546845

Tracklist:
A1 - Spoonful - 3:48
A2 - Tail Dragger - 4:20
A3 - Smokestack Lightning - 5:54
A4 - Moanin' At Midnight - 3:13
A5 - Built For Comfort - 5:07
B1 - The Red Rooster - 3:48
B2 - Evil - 4:06
B3 - Down In The Bottom - 2:43
B4 - Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy - 2:34
B5 - Back Door Man - 6:17


Credits:
    Design – H. Blume*
    Drums – Morris Jennings
    Electric Bass – Louis Satterfield
    Electric Guitar – Hubert Sumlin, Phil Upchurch (tracks: B2, B4, B5), Roland Faulkner
    Electric Guitar, Guitar [Bowed] – Pete Cosey
    Engineer – Ron Malo
    Flute – Donald Myrick* (tracks: A3)
    Photography By – Jeff Leowenthal
    Producer – Charles Stepney, Gene Barge, Marshall Chess
    Saxophone [Electric] – Gene Barge (tracks: A3)
    Vocals, Harmonica – Howlin' Wolf
    Written-By – Chester Burnett (tracks: A3, A4, B2), Willie Dixon (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B1, B3 to B5)


Recorded November 1968 at Ter Mar Studios – Chicago. Cadet Concept Records, Chicago, Ill., 60616. Can be played on mono or stereo equipment.

 

 

 

 

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