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Howlin' Wolf recorded "Killing Floor" in Chicago in August 1964, which Chess Records released as a single. [2] According to blues guitarist and longtime Wolf associate Hubert Sumlin, the song uses the killing floor – the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are killed – as a metaphor or allegory for male-female relationships: "Down on the killing floor – that means a woman has you down ...
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.
The Real Folk Blues is a series of blues albums released between 1965 and 1967 by Chess Records, later reissued MCA Records.Each album in the series highlighted the music of one major Chess artist, including John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Howling Wolf Sings the Blues is a compilation album by blues musician Howlin' Wolf, which was released by Crown Records in 1962. [1] [2] The original album included eight songs recorded for Modern Records between 1951 and 1952, including those tracks that were released as singles by the RPM, and an additional two instrumentals by Joe Hill Louis. [2]
It should only contain pages that are Howlin' Wolf songs or lists of Howlin' Wolf songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Howlin' Wolf songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
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 ...
Hooker also used the song as basis for several of his own songs, such as "Sally Mae". [2] In 1964, Howlin' Wolf recorded the song as "My Country Sugar Mama". [12] It was performed as a Chicago blues shuffle with lyrics from the Yank Rachell, Tampa Red, and Sonny Boy Williamson songs. The song was credited to Wolf as are many subsequent versions.
"Spoonful" has a one-chord, modal blues structure found in other songs Dixon wrote for Howlin' Wolf, such as "Wang Dang Doodle" and "Back Door Man", and in Wolf's own "Smokestack Lightning". It uses eight-bar vocal sections with twelve-bar choruses and is performed at a medium blues tempo in the key of E. [ 5 ] Music critic Bill Janovitz ...