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"Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", [ 1 ] it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. [ 2 ]
At Chess' studio in Chicago in January 1956, Howlin' Wolf recorded "Smokestack Lightning". [1] The song takes the form of "a propulsive, one-chord vamp, nominally in E major but with the flatted blue notes that make it sound like E minor", and lyrically it is "a pastiche of ancient blues lines and train references, timeless and evocative". [1]
Howlin' Wolf: 1962 Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs "Don't Go No Further" Muddy Waters: 1956 The Doors, B.B. King, John P. Hammond "Don't You Tell Me Nothin'" Willie Dixon: 1986 used in the film The Color of Money "Down in the Bottom" Howlin' Wolf: 1961 Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, John P. Hammond, Siegel–Schwall Band, Barry McGuire "Eternity ...
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chicago blues, and over a four-decade career, recorded blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and psychedelic rock.
In 1966, Cream recorded "Spoonful" on their debut album Fresh Cream and included a live, 17-minute version on their 1968 album Wheels of Fire. In 1969 the songs "Shake for Me" and " Back Door Man " were used in the lyrics to the Led Zeppelin song " Whole Lotta Love ."
Howlin' Wolf's original "The Red Rooster" is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". [74] As well as being a blues standard , [ 75 ] Janovitz calls "Little Red Rooster" a "classic song [that] has been recorded countless times, a warhorse for most late-'60s and 1970s classic rock acts". [ 23 ]
"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. The lyrics draw on a Southern U.S. cultural term for an extramarital affair. The song is one of several Dixon-Wolf songs that became popular among rock musicians, including the Doors who recorded it for their 1967 self-titled debut album.
Live and Cookin', subtitled at Alice's Revisited, is a live album by blues musician Howlin' Wolf, released by Chess Records in 1972. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Reception