Howlin' Wolf
ハウリン・ウルフ
- BORN: June 10, 1910, West Point, Mississippi
1910年6月10日、ミシシッピ州ウェスト・ポイント生まれ - DIED: January 10, 1976, Hines, Illinois
1976年1月10日、イリノイ州ハインで死去 - vocals harmonica guitar
猛獣のようなブルースマンだったハウリン・ウルフ。ギターはドッカリー・プランテーションでチャーリー・パットンから教わったという。40年代後半にウェスト・メンフィスに出て、ギターのウィリー・ジョンソン、ピアノのディストラクション(破壊屋)といったメンバーから成るバンドを結成。その後ウェスト・メンフィスのラジオ局KWEMでDJ兼、演奏者となる。サム・フィリップスが所有するメンフィス・レコーディング・サーヴィスで初レコーディング。フィリップスはウルフのテープをシカゴのチェス・レコードに送った。また、同じ頃RPMのタレント・スカウトをしていたアイク・ターナーがウルフの再レコーディングを行い、そのテープをビハリ兄弟に送った。その結果、同じような曲がチェス、RPM両社から発売されてしまった。チェスとビハリ兄弟は裁判に訴え、熾烈な争奪戦に。最終的にはチェスがウルフを、ビハリが新人のロスコー・ゴードンを取ることで和解し、ウルフはシカゴへ移住。以後ウルフは、片腕的存在ヒューバート・サムリンのギターをバックに、チェスで「スモークスタック・ライトニン」「キリング・フロア」「イーヴル」など名曲を残し、死ぬ直前まで素晴らしいコンサートを続けた。
Recordings
- early 1951, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The Moonlight)
- May 14, 1951, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The Moonlight)
- How Many More Years
- circa June 1951
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- Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The moonlight) (take 1)
- Baby Ride With Me (take 2)
- Baby Ride With Me (take 3)
- Baby Ride With Me (Riding In The Moonlight) (take 4)
- Baby Ride With Me
- How Many More Years (take 1)
- How Many More Years (take 3)
- July 1951, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
- September 1951, West Memphis, Arkansas
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- Riding In The Moonlight
- Morning At Midnight
- Keep What You Got
- Dog Me Around
- October 2, 1951, West Memphis, Arkansas
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- Passing by Blues
- Crying at Daybreak
- My Baby Stole Off
- I Want Your Picture - @YouTube
- December 18, 1951, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
- January 23, 1952, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Gettin' Old and Gray
- Mr. Highway Man
- Highway Man (Cadillac Daddy) (alternate take)
- My Baby Walked Off
- My Troubles and Me
- Chocolate Drop
- February 12, 1952, West Memphis, Arkansas
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- Worried About My Baby
- House Rockin' Boogie
- Brown Skin Woman
- Chocolate Drop (alternate take)
- Driving This Highway
- The Sun Is Rising
- My Friends
- I'm the Wolf
- April 17, 1952, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
- October 7, 1952, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Oh Red (take 1)
- Oh Red (take 2)
- Oh Red
- My Last Affair
- My Last Affair
- C.V. Wine Blues
- Come Back Home (take 1)
- Come Back Home (take 2)
- Come Back Home (take 3)
- 1953, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
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- I've Got a Woman
- Just My Kind
- Work for Your Money
- I'm Not Joking
- My Died and Left Me
- 1953, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
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- All Night Boogie
- I Love My Baby
- Highway My Friend
- Hold Your Money
- Streamline Woman
- California Blues
- Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back
- Crazy About You Baby
- March 1954, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- No Place to Go - @YouTube
- You Gonna Wreck My Life
- Neighbors
- I'm the Wolf
- Rockin' Daddy
- May 25, 1954, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Baby How Long
- Evil - @YouTube
- October 1954, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I'll Be Around
- Forty Four - @YouTube
- March 1955, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Who Will Be Next
- I Have a Little Girl
- Come to Me Baby
- Don't Mess with My Baby
- January 1956, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Smokestack Lightnin' - @YouTube
- You Can't Be Beat
- July 19, 1956, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Asked for Water - @YouTube
- So Glad
- Break of Day
- The Natchez Burnin'
- December 1956, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Going Back Home
- Bluebird
- My Life
- You Ought to Know
- June 24, 1957, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Who's Been Talking
- Tell Me
- Somebody in My Home
- Somebody in My Home (alternate take)
- Nature
- Nature
- Nature (alternate take)
- December 1957, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Walk to Camp Hall
- Poor Boy
- Poor Boy (alternate take)
- My Baby Told Me
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- March 1958, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Didn't Know
- Howlin' Blues (I'm Going Away)
- I Better Go Now
- I Better Go Now
- April 3, 1958, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Didn't Know
- Moanin' for My Baby (Midnight Blues)
- Midnight Blues
- September 1958, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I'm Leavin' You
- I'm Leavin' You (alternate take)
- I'm Leavin' You
- You Can't Put Me Out
- Can't Put Me Out
- Can't Put Me Out (alternate take)
- Change My Way
- Getting Late
- July 1959, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I've Been Abused
- I've Been Abused (alternate take)
- I've Been Abused
- Howlin' for My Baby
- Howlin' for My Darling
- Howlin' for My Darling (inst track)
- Wolf in the Mood
- My People's Gone
- Mr. Airplane Man
- Mr. Airplane Man
- June 1960, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Wang Dang Doodle
- Back Door Man
- Spoonful
- May 1961, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Little Baby
- Down in the Bottom
- June 1961, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Shake for Me
- The Red Rooster
- December 1961, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- You'll Be Mine
- Just Like I Treat You
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Goin' Down Slow
- September 27-28, 1962, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Mama's Baby
- Do the Do
- Tail Dragger
- Tail Dragger (alternate take)
- Long Green Stuff
- July 26, 1963, Copa Cabana Club, Chicago, Illinois
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- Sugar Mama
- May I Have a Talk With You
- August 14, 1963, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Hidden Charms
- Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
- Joy to My Soul
- Built for Comfort
- August 1964, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Love Me Darlin'
- Killing Floor
- My Country Sugar Mama
- Louise
- September 28, 1964, American Folk Blues Festival, Germany
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- Shake for Me
- Love Me Darlin'
- I'll Be Back Someday
- October 9, 1964, American Folk Blues Festival, Hamburg, Germany
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- Dust My Broom
- November 6, 1964, American Folk Blues Festival, Bremen, Germany
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- Shake It For Me
- Love Me
- Dust My Broom
- I Didn't Mean To Hurt Your Feelings
- Rockin' The Blues
- All My Life
- Going Down Slow
- Howlin' For My Darlin'
- Forty-Four
- April 15, 1965, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Walked from Dallas
- Tell Me What I've Done
- Don't Laugh at Me
- Ooh Baby
- April 11, 1966, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Poor Wind That Never Change
- New Crawlin' King Snake
- My Mind Is Ramblin'
- Commit a Crime
- 1966, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- 300 Pounds Of Joy
- I Walked From Dallas
- I Asked For Water
- I Told My Baby
- Tell Me What I've Done
- Down In The Bottom
- Dust My Broom
- Goin' Down Slow
- August 1966, Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
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- Dust My Broom
- June 1967, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Pop It to Me
- I Had a Dream
- Dust My Broom
- September 1967, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- The Red Rooster
- Diddley Daddy
- Ooh Baby/Wrecking My Love Life
- Spoonful
- Goin' Down Slow
- Sweet Little Angel
- Long Distance Call
- November 1968, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Spoonful
- Tail Dragger
- Built for Comfort
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- Moanin' at Midnight
- The Red Rooster
- Back Door Man
- Evil
- Down in the Bottom
- Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
- November 1968, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Rollin' and Tumblin'
- I'm the Wolf
- Ain't Going Down That Dirt Road
- Ain't Going Down That Dirt Road #2
- I Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog No More
- Woke Up This Morning
- Talk Session (Interview)
- More Howlin' Wolf Talks
- July 14, 1969, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Mary Sue
- Hard Luck
- The Big House
- Tired of Crying
- May 2, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
- May 4, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
- May 6, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
- May 7, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
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- The Red Rooster (false start and dialog)
- The Red Rooster
- The Red Rooster (alternate mix)
- What a Woman!
- What a Woman! (Commit a Crime) (alternate mix with organ overdub)
- What a Woman! (Commit a Crime) (alternate take)
- Who's Been Talking?
- Cause Of It All (Who's Been Talkin') (unedited)
- Who's Been Talking? (alternate take with false start & dialog)
- Built for Comfort
- Worried About My Baby (rehearsal take)
- Worried About My Baby
- Worried About My Baby (alternate take)
- Killing Floor
- September 1970, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Smell A Rat
- October 6, 1970, Chicago, Illinois
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- Miss James
- Just As Long
- If I Were A Bird
- Message To The Young
- She's Looking Good
- Romance Without Finance
- Turn Me On
- January 26, 1972, Alice's Revisited, Chicago, Illinois
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- I Had a Dream
- Call Me the Wolf
- I Don't Know
- When I Laid Down I Was Troubled
- Just Passing By
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Mean Mistreater
- Don't Laugh at Me
- The Big House
- Mr. Airplane Man
- September 8, 1972, Ann Arbor Blues And Jazz Festival, Michigan
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- Highway 49
- May 1973, Joe's Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Little Red Rooster
- Going Down Slow
- Evil
- Blind Love
- August 14 & 17, 1973, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
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- Leave Here Walking
- Coon on the Moon
- Watergate Blues
- Trying to Forget You
- Speak Now Woman
- Speak Now Woman (alternate)
- Can't Stay Here
- Stop Using Me
- Moving
- The Back Door Wolf
- You Turn Slick on Me
- August 1973, Ebbets Field, Denver, Colorado
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- Little Red Rooster
- July 25-27, 1975, 1815 Club, Chicago, Illinois
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- Take A Little Walk With Me
- Big House
- Highway 49
- Laid Down Last Night
- After A While
- Checkin' Up On My Baby
- Don't Laugh At Me