Howlin Wolf - Wolf, Howlin : Complete RPM &Chess Singles As & BS 1951-62 (CD)

Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, was one of the most important and influential figures in Chicago Blues through the 1950s, and along with Muddy Waters helped to establish the electric blues style that laid the foundations for rock music in subsequent decades. With his imposing physical presence and loud, almost fearsome voice, he was a powerful and impressive performer, who wrote and popularised songs which have become classic standards of the genre, like "Spoonful", "Smokestack Lightning", "Killing Floor" and "Red Rooster", which became fixtures in the repertoire of bands like The Rolling Stones, who very much championed his cause and widened his reputation in the latter years of his career. This collection brings together both sides of all the singles he released through the RPM and Chess labels during the first hugely important decade of his career, along with bonus tracks comprising recordings made at sessions during this period which were not released as singles at the time. It's a great-value 80-track 3-CD set, which showcases one of the major personalities of the blues.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Moanin' at Midnight
2. How Many More Years
3. Riding in the Moonlight
4. Morning at Midnight
5. Passing By Blues
6. Crying at Daybreak
7. My Baby Stole Off
8. I Want Your Picture
9. Wolf Is at Your Door
10. Howlin' Wolf Boogie
11. Getting Old and Grey
12. Mr. Highway Man
13. Saddle My Pony
14. Worried All the Time
15. Oh, Red!
16. My Last Affair
17. All Night Boogie
18. I Love My Baby
19. No Place to Go
20. Rockin' Daddy
21. Baby How Long
22. Evil Is Going on
23. I'll Be Around
24. Forty-Four
25. Who Will Be Next
26. I Have a Little Girl

Disc: 2

1. Come to Me Baby
2. Don't Mess with My Baby
3. Smokestack Lightning
4. You Can't Be Beat
5. I Asked for Water
6. So Glad
7. Goin' Back Home
8. My Life
9. Somebody in My Home
10. Nature
11. Poor Boy
12. Sittin' on Top of the World
13. I Didn't Know
14. Moaning for My Baby
15. I'm Leaving You
16. Change My Way
17. Howlin' Blues
18. I Better Go Now
19. I've Been Abused
20. Mister Airplane Man
21. You Gonna Wreck My Life
22. Natchez Burning
23. Who's Been Talking
24. Tell Me
25. Spoonful
26. Howlin' for My Baby
27. Wang Dang Doodle

Disc: 3

1. Back Door Man
2. Little Baby
3. Down in the Bottom
4. Shake for Me
5. Red Rooster
6. You'll Be Mine
7. Goin' Down Slow
8. Just Like I Treat You
9. I Ain't Superstitious
10. Mama's Baby
11. Do the Do
12. Keep What You Got []
13. California Blues []
14. California Boogie []
15. My Troubles and Me []
16. Worried About My Baby []
17. Brown Skin Woman []
18. House Rockin' Boogie []
19. Driving This Highway []
20. Sun Is Rising []
21. Stealing My Clothes []
22. I'm the Wolf []
23. Highway My Friend []
24. Hold Your Money []
25. Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back []
26. Crazy About You Baby []
27. Streamline Woman []