Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight [Blue Vinyl]

20TH CENTURY MASTERWORKS

£17.98

Cat. no: 350254
Format: LP Blue Vinyl
Barcode: 8436563184468
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Genre: Blues

Limited edition 180g blue coloured vinyl, original album + 4 bonus tracks

'Moanin' in the Moonlight'was Howlin' Wolf's frst collection of sides for the Chess label, packed with great tunes and untouchable performances.

One of the all- time cornerstones of the genre, Moanin' in the Moonlight(1959) features several of his early hits ('How Many More Years', 'Moanin' at Midnight', 'Smokes tack Lightnin', 'Forty Four', 'Evil', and 'I Asked for Water [She Gave Me Gasoline]'), a po tent collection to say the very least!

Born Chester Burnett (1910-1976), and named after President Chester Alan Arthur, Howlin' Wolf had blues credentials so authentic they seem parodic. As a teenager in the Mississippi Delta, he pestered Charley Patton (Mississippi's seminal blues singer) for lessons, and took on Patton's grainy voice and powerful, elemental slide guitar style. In the '30s and '40s, he became one of the Delta's many wandering entertainers, using the nom de guerre (Howlin' Wolf) he derived from a childhood nickname.

Tracks: Back Door Man / So Glad / Somebody In My Home / Forty-Four / I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) / Moanin' For My Baby / I'm Leavin' You / Evil (Is Goin' On) / Spoonful / The Red Rooster [aka Little Red Rooster] / All Night Boogie / No Place To Go (You Gonna Break My Life) / Baby, How Long / Smokestack Lightnin' / How Many More Years / Moanin' At Midnight