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In 1985, the album won a Blues Music Award by The Blues Foundation for 'Classics of Blues Recordings—Album'. [10] In 2012, the album was ranked No. 238 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and described as "an outrageous set of sex songs written by Willie Dixon."
List of songs with title, first recorded by, year, and subsequently recorded by; Title First recorded by Year Subsequently recorded by "29 Ways" Willie Dixon: 1956 Koko Taylor, Marc Cohn, The Blues Band "As Long as I Have You" Little Walter: 1960 The Ford Blues Band, John P. Hammond, George Thorogood "Back Door Man" Howlin' Wolf: 1960
Howlin' Wolf's second compilation album, Howlin' Wolf—often called "the rocking chair album" from its cover illustration—was released in 1962. [ 34 ] During the blues revival in the 1950s and 1960s, black blues musicians found a new audience among white youths, and Howlin' Wolf was among the first to capitalize on it.
The Howlin' Wolf Album did not sell as well as Electric Mud. [7] The Howlin' Wolf Album peaked at number 69 on Billboard magazine's Black Albums chart. [12] The album's single, "Evil", peaked at number 43 on the R&B Singles chart. [12] In 2007, a digitally remastered compact disc edition was released as a limited edition in Japan.
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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]
Rather than re-recording the song with new musicians, on June 27, 1962, Waters overdubbed a vocal track to Hooker's 1961 recording to create "You Shook Me". [1] The song, using the arrangement from "Blue Guitar", is a moderately-slow tempo twelve-bar blues , notated in 12/8 time in the key of D. [ 9 ] For the melody line, Muddy Waters doubled ...
"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.