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Moanin in the Moonlight & Howlin Wolf

Howlin' WolfAudio CD
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The blues has been a wellspring for rivers of pop, rock and R&B and there's nothing quite like returning to the source. In the mid-'60s, Chess Records released a series of legendary "best of" albums for Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin' Wolf. Under each artist's name, The Real Folk Blues was issued in 1966 and a More Real Folk Blues ... Read more in Amazon's Howlin' Wolf Store

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  • Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Chess
  • ASIN: B000002O3I
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,769 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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This package combines blues giant Howlin' Wolf's first two albums, themselves compilations of his singles released between 1951 and 1962. Apart from two tracks cut in Memphis with Ike Turner, these Chess Studios recordings are landmarks in the development of electric Chicago blues. The Mississippi Delta native's gruff persona towers over "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Red Rooster," "Spoonful," "Evil," "Wang Dang Doodle," "Back Door Man," and others that have become standards since being "discovered" by the Rolling Stones, Clapton, The Doors, et al. Almost as influential as Wolf's bottomless growl are the guitar playing of Hubert Sumlin and the writing and direction of Willie Dixon. An exceptional twofer value for such a weighty slice of American musical history. --Ben Edmonds

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The Wolf's first two long-playing albums for the Chicago-based Chess label. Incl Red Rooster, Wang Dang Doodle, Moanin' At Midnight, How Many More Years, Smokestack Lightnin', I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline), Evil & more.

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That makes this a must have for anyone with an interest in blues. Virgil  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
One song has been omitted due to the lenght of the original albums, the liner notes say. Docendo Discimus  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Wolf November 25, 2004
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This is the most essential single Howlin' Wolf CD there could possibly be and would make an excellent first purchase for a Howlin' Wolf novice. It comprises The Wolf's first two long-player releases, both what we would now regard as compilations, and was put out by Chess/MCA in 1986.

Moanin' In The Moonlight came out in America in 1959 and was made up of 12 selected A-sides and B-sides from the many 78's he released between 1951 and 1958, all monaural, including such classics as Smokestack Lightnin' and I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline). The LP kicks off with Moanin' At Midnight and How Many More Years, comprising both sides of his first Chess single, recorded in Memphis by Sam Phillips at what would become the Sun studios, long before Howlin' Wolf moved to Chicago. The songs on this LP are among the most elemental, eerie and powerful pieces of music ever committed to tape.

Equally compelling is the second collection, usually known as the Rocking Chair album, released in the US in January 1962, when the genre was presented as the root of "Music Americana". It contained 3 previously unreleased songs recorded between May and December 1961, and 9 that were on 45's released in 1960 and 1961 (though two were recorded in 1957), but all in stereo.

Famous songs include The Red Rooster, Wang Dang Doodle, Back Door Man and the Wolf's famous variation of Spoonful (he would have learned the original, fairly dissimilar Spoonful Blues from Charlie Patton) - though all staple fare for a million blues and rock bands ever since, none could match the intensity and darkness of these originals (although the Rolling Stones' Little Red Rooster came close). Most were written by Willie Dixon, who plays bass throughout, though there are a couple credited to Howlin' Wolf and a cover of St Louis Jimmy Oden's Goin' Down Slow, on which, unusually, the recitation is spoken by Willie Dixon.

The division of stereo and mono recordings is not declared anywhere on the CD and seems somewhat arbitrary, especially since Who's Been Talkin' (stereo), Tell Me (stereo) and Somebody In My Home (mono) were all recorded on 24 June 1957.

A note in the sleeve reads, "In our effort to bring you the originals for the cost of a single CD, we have omitted one selection due to the length of the combined original albums." Given the playing time of 66 minutes this is a very irritating message, but in my quest to discover the identity of the missing selection, after consulting several online discographies as far as I can tell it seems that all tracks are present and correct
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the best buy you'll ever do August 18, 2000
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Here are two classic Howlin' Wolf original albums collected on one CD, and it is some of the best blues music ever recorded. The Rocking Chair album must certainly have been one of Stevie Ray Vaughan's favourite album, because he recorded several songs from this one. I beleive this must be the best chicago blues album of all time. Moanin the Blues is just as great with songs as 'Evil', 'All night boogie' and 'Smokestack Lightning'. I have been a fan of Howlin' Wolf since I started listening to the blues in my teens, and his music continues to thrill and amaze me. I think you get your money's worth and more so if you get this one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wolf at his best October 2, 2004
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You could say that MCA/Chess' various Wolf compilations ("His Best", "His Best vol. 2", "The Genuine Article") have made this twofer-CD obsolete, but as an introduction to the great Howlin' Wolf it still ranks among the best.

The sound quality is not stellar (no remastering), and neither is the packaging, but the songs certainly are.
"Howlin' Wolf / Moanin' In The Moonlight" brings together Wolf's first two LPs, one of them being the self-titled one usually called "The Rockin' Chair Album" due to the peaceful-looking picture on the cover of a rocking chair with an acoustic guitar propped up against it...misleading cover art if I ever saw it!
One song has been omitted due to the lenght of the original albums, the liner notes say. A completely meaningless excuse since this CD only runs for 65 minutes, but what's even more odd is that the material from Wolf's first album comes after the songs from his second one, putting latter-day Willie Dixon-penned material before early Wolf-penned songs (these two albums were not conceived as such; they were merely collections of previously issued singles as was customary at the time).

But those are minor quibbles. This certainly isn't everything you could ever want from the Wolf, but it is an excellent place to start. Many of his most accessible "mainstream" blues tunes are here, often written by Willie Dixon: "The Red Rooster" with its muscular, slinky slide guitar riff, the propulsive "Down In The Bottom", the gleeful "Back Door Man", the catchy hard-rocking "Howlin' For My Darlin'" (erroneously titled "Howlin' For My Baby"), and the slightly-too-cute "Wang Dang Doodle", which became very popular even though Wolf himself didn't like the song.
But Wolf's own compositions are here as well, and plenty of them, and those remain his most powerful: From the Rockin' Chair album comes the swaggering groove of "Tell Me", one of the most underexposed Wolf singles, and the Chicago blues classic "Who's Been Talking", a supremely funky arrangement with some powerful, syncopated drumming from Earl Phillips and a great piano part by Hosea Lee Kennard.

And "Moanin' At Midnight" is almost all Wolf, opening with his first hit single, the monster combination of the smouldering, piano-driven "How Many More Years" and the eerie "Moanin' At Midnight". The classic "Smokestack Lightnin'" is here, one of the pillars of early electric blues singles, and so is the menacing "Forty-Four", Wolf's take on Tommy Johnson's desperate "Cool Drink Of Water Blues" (retitled "I Asked For Water"), and a slew of rough, tough lesser-known songs like "I'm Leavin' You" (later covered by J.B. Hutto), "Somebody In My Home", "Baby How Long", and the wonderful early Dixon-composition "Evil".

Howlin' Wolf might not have caried himself with the statesman-like dignity of Muddy Waters, but his performances were the stuff of legend. A huge, intimidating man with a voice like heavy machinery operating on a gravel road, Wolf's early Chicago sides are some of the most awesome electric blues ever recorded, and no-one could match the Wolf when it came to rocking the house down to its foundations (and scaring the audience out of their wits at the same time).

Wolf is not for everyone...even if you like a good dose of Muddy Waters, you may still be turned off by Wolf's glass-gargling roar of a voice and sometimes bleak - or downright frightening - lyrics. But if you are interested in prime time Chicago blues, Wolf's classic Chess sides are a must-own. Chester Burnett in his prime remains the most overwhelming performer the genre has ever seen - alongside Son House, of course.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wolf at his best!!!
very good selection of some of The Wolf's best bues tunes ~ I'd reccommend for anybody that digs the blues!!!
Published 2 months ago by rexxxxx1
5.0 out of 5 stars love me some wolf
the wolf is one of my favorite blues men,i love his harmonica playing,his singing as well as his giutar playing,also the woman love to hear him howl. this cd has it all buy it now.
Published 4 months ago by lonzo lyles
5.0 out of 5 stars Love his gritty voice
I had to mention Howlin' Wolf in my upcoming book because the heroine Ana Corelli who grew up in Italy but is of African American and Italian heritage is just discovering the blues... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Janice Sims
5.0 out of 5 stars The wolf grows on you
years ago when the Stones made their first TV appearance on BBC, they asked the BBC if they would also invite Howlin Wolf because they owed a huge debt of gratitude to him for... Read more
Published 16 months ago by JOHN DUROSE
5.0 out of 5 stars Howlin' Wolf Was One Of The Giants Of Mid 20th Century American Blues...
This is a compilation of two 1950s Howlin' Wolf albums on the Chess label. It contains a number of tracks that have become blues and rock standards since they were discovered and... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mark Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars If you love the blues and classic rock, you have to have this album
If someone told me I could only listen to one album out of my collection for the rest of my life, I'm pretty certain I would have to pick this one. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Erick Fleury
5.0 out of 5 stars Two great albums for the price of 1.
Every song is great on these two albums on one disc Howlin Wolfs voice is very powerful and deep what great artists. Read more
Published on February 27, 2011 by jeffery parsons
5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling, Electrifying and Awful Damned Good
Though it's been a couple decades since I've played "Moanin' in the Moonlight", I'm playing it as I'm writing this and it's all coming back. Read more
Published on February 19, 2010 by Ken Douglas
5.0 out of 5 stars You must own this music one way or another
The ideal compilation is the one you assemble yourself. And at this point in technological history, you don't have to pay David Geffen for the privilege. Read more
Published on September 4, 2009 by Eric Krupin
5.0 out of 5 stars American Music. This is the Howlin' Wolf CD to get.
Great deal at just several bucks and you get two albums. Contains Howlin' Wolf's greatest work. Nobody sang like Howlin' Wolf and nobody has since. Read more
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