Howlin’ Wolf

Howlin' Wolf (White Station (near West Point, Mississippi), 1910 – June 20, Chicago (Illinois), 10 January 1976), real name: Chester Arthur Burnett, was an American blues singer, guitarist and blues harp player who had that much influence on blues music.

Burnett worked on a cotton plantation at an early age and learned so the raw fringes of society know. After his mother him as 11-year-old boy out of the House threw, he sought refuge with his uncle who then battered him. After two years he fled the House of his uncle and ran 120 km to his father who him lovingly into his family. His father gave him his first guitar at the age of 18. Blues Pioneer Charley Patton taught him to play.

After the second world war, Burnett his own radio show at a local station. There it was discovered his raw and soulful voice. The record companies offered to get him under contract against each other. He was signed to Chess Records and moved to Chicago. The young guitarist Hubert Sumlin, who had followed him, became his permanent companion until his death in 1976.

Together with Muddy Waters, he was the leading blues musician of the 1950s. With its imposing stature, 1.98 m and 130 kilos ("Three hundred pounds of heavenly joy") was its occurrence on the stage impressive.With his sometimes vulgar, sometimes narrative occur with a voice like a ship buoy, he was a major influence on Tom Waitsand Captain Beefheart . In the opening track of the album Mirror Man (1972) quotes Beefheart played by Burnett for example from different songs, including "Wang Dang Doodle", specially written for Howlin' Wolf was by Willie Dixon.

Howlin' Wolf was a great example for the English music generation of the 1960s. For The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, he was an idol. In 1971 he took over the London Sessions on plate with Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starrand Bill Wyman . Although reviled by critics and connoisseurs, it became the best-selling blues plate in the world. It brought whole new generations first encountered the blues.

Some of his most famous songs are "Moanin' at Midnight", "Smokestack Lightning", "Wang-Dang-Doodle", "How Many More Years" and "Killing Floor".

Burnett suffered the last years of his life to failing kidneys. Nevertheless, he continued to occur until just before his death. His last concert was one of the most memorable he ever gave. A day later, he performed in his local club but had to be taken to hospital afterwards, that he would never leave.



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 * 2 Dvds
 * Book 3
 * 4 external links
 * Moanin' in the Moonlight (1958)
 * Howlin' Wolf (also known as The Rockin' Chair Album) (1962)
 * The Super Super Blues Band (Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley)
 * The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
 * His Best
 * The Howlin' Wolf Story-The Secret History of Rock & Roll (2003)
 * Howlin Wolf: In Concert 1970 (2007)
 * The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, vol. 1 (2003)
 * Devil Got My Woman
 * Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf (2005)