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Howlin' Wolf: Memphis Days Vol.1 (CD)

1-CD with 12-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 61 min.

Hailed by fans and critics as one of the greatest blues CDs ever issued!
For SUN Records founder Sam Phillips, Chester Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf remained the greatest blues discovery for his groundbreaking Memphis label.

In 1989 Richard Weize gained access to the SUN tape archive for Bear Family Records and discovered several previously unknown Howlin' Wolf recordings from 1951 and 1952, including some never released alternative versions of tracks Phillips had sold to Chess Records in Chicago at the time and a few masters with completely unknown songs.
The digital copies from the original(!) tapes were carefully mastered and bring out the often raw sounds of Wolf and his ingenious guitarist Willie Johnson as clear and punchy as you only know it from original 78s! The blues doesn't get any rawer or more powerful than this!

Even more than 30 years after its first release, this CD sounds incredibly brilliant. The almost 70 year old recordings breathe an energy that could only be captured in those days at Phillips' Memphis Recording Service. These master recordings (and the follow-up CD 'Memphis Days Vol. 2' BCD15500) belong in every blues collection!- DH

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  • Interpret: Howlin' Wolf

  • Album titlle: Memphis Days Vol.1 (CD)

  • Genre Blues

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127154606

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Days Vol.1 (CD) CD 1
01Oh Red (take 1)Howlin' Wolf
02My Last Affair (take 1)Howlin' Wolf
03Come Back Home (take 1)Howlin' Wolf
04California BoogieHowlin' Wolf
05California BluesHowlin' Wolf
06Look-A-Here BabyHowlin' Wolf
07Smile At MeHowlin' Wolf
08My Baby Walked OffHowlin' Wolf
09Drinkin' CV Wine (CV Wine Blues)Howlin' Wolf
10My Troubles And MeHowlin' Wolf
11Chocolate DropHowlin' Wolf
12Mr. Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy)Howlin' Wolf
13Bluebird BluesHowlin' Wolf
14Color And KindHowlin' Wolf
15(Everybody's) In The MoodHowlin' Wolf
16Dorothy Mae (# 2)Howlin' Wolf
17I Got A Woman/Sweet WomanHowlin' Wolf
18Decoration Day BluesHowlin' Wolf
19(Well) That's All RightHowlin' Wolf
20How Many More YearsHowlin' Wolf
21Baby Ride With MeHowlin' Wolf
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"Howlin' Wolf"

Howlin' Wolf

For a guy who didn't see the inside of a recording studio until he was 40 years old, Chester Arthur Burnett certainly made up for lost time. Of course, the giant known as Howlin' Wolf possessed the most fearsome, feral vocal cords in the annals of electric postwar blues. His wheezing harmonica was as distinctive as his unbeatable flair for showmanship; he routinely rolled around the stage in simulation of sexual ecstasy or climbed the stage curtains like a deranged madman.

"Wolf was the greatest that I've ever known,"says his longtime saxist Eddie Shaw."Wolf was not only a musician, he was an entertainer. That's what I respected him for."

Born June 10, 1910 in White Station, Mississippi (near West Point), Burnett got his stage moniker from his grandfather (the impressively built lad also answered to Big Foot and Bullcow). His family settled in the Delta in 1923, and the great Charley Patton gave him personal tutelage on guitar in '28. Chester picked up harmonica licks from Rice Miller—Sonny Boy Williamson #2—when the harpist was romancing Wolf's sister. He was playing electric guitar on the streets as early as 1938. After returning from an ill-fated Army stint during World War II, the big man got more serious about his music, landing a daily 15-minute program on KWEM in West Memphis in 1949. Sam Phillips caught one of Wolf's broadcasts and was transfixed.

Phillips brought Wolf into his fledgling Memphis Recording Service in the spring of 1951 for a demo date. Sam shipped the results up north to Chess, which requested a full session in either May or August. Accompanying Wolf was his sledgehammer guitarist Willie Johnson, a product of Lake Cormorant, Mississippi (he was born March 4, 1923) who played pretty ninth chords one second and barbed-wire leads the next. Also on hand were drummer Willie Steele and a pianist. How Many More Yearsand its eerie plattermate Moanin' At Midnightwere cut at that first date, and both pierced the R&B charts on Chess, How Many peaking higher at #4. 

Meanwhile, Ike Turner had hipped the Bihari brothers to Wolf's talents and they pacted him to RPM, setting up a session at KWEM that September that yielded Morning At Midnight(Moanin' At Midnightin paper-thin disguise), a How Many More Years variant titled Dog Me Around, and two more titles. "The Modern record company would come in, and we would record the same songs for them and get 25 bucks apiece,"said Turner. With Wolf now also on RPM, the feud between Leonard Chess and Modern's Bihari brothers ramped up. The battle was ultimately settled the next year when Modern held on to Memphis pianist Rosco Gordon (another Phillips discovery claimed by both labels) while the Wolf went to Chess. Great as Rosco was, looks like Leonard won that round.

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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18 May 2017

Howlin' Wolf's early recordings

Recorded in Sam Phillip's legendary 'Sun' studio! Raw and rockin' Blues stuff. What an impressive artist he was! I wish I would have had the chance to see him playing live!

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Tracklist
Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Days Vol.1 (CD) CD 1
01 Oh Red (take 1)
02 My Last Affair (take 1)
03 Come Back Home (take 1)
04 California Boogie
05 California Blues
06 Look-A-Here Baby
07 Smile At Me
08 My Baby Walked Off
09 Drinkin' CV Wine (CV Wine Blues)
10 My Troubles And Me
11 Chocolate Drop
12 Mr. Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy)
13 Bluebird Blues
14 Color And Kind
15 (Everybody's) In The Mood
16 Dorothy Mae (# 2)
17 I Got A Woman/Sweet Woman
18 Decoration Day Blues
19 (Well) That's All Right
20 How Many More Years
21 Baby Ride With Me