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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 ...
The Howlin' Wolf entry is possibly the best of the batch, and one of the best introductions to this mercurial electric bluesman. Opening with the savage 'Killing Floor,' the album doesn't let up in intensity, and it happily focuses on Wolf's less-anthologized sides, which gives the album a freshness a lot of blues compilations lack".
“Hard Times Killing Floor Blues” (Skip James song), 1931"Killing Floor" (Howlin' Wolf song), 1964 "Killing Floor", a song on Redgum's 1978 album If You Don't Fight You Lose
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.
His Best is a greatest hits album by American blues musician Howlin' Wolf.The album was originally released on April 8, 1997, by MCA/Chess Records, [1] and was one of a series of releases by MCA for the 50th anniversary of Chess Records that year (see 1997 in music).
Killing Floor are a British blues rock band, who formed in 1968. They released two albums and four singles before initially disbanding in 1972. They have issued another two albums since their reformation in 2002. The band name came from the title of Howlin' Wolf's 1964 track, "Killing Floor". [1]
A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the ...
Howlin' Wolf (1962) Howling Wolf Sings the Blues (1962) Singles from Howlin' Wolf "Tell Me" Released: February 10, 1960 "Spoonful" Released: July 18, 1960