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The Howlin' Wolf Foundation, a nonprofit corporation organized under the US tax code, section 501(c)(3), was established by Bettye Kelly to preserve and extend Howlin' Wolf's legacy. The foundation's mission and goals include the preservation of the blues music genre, scholarships to enable students to participate in music programs, and support ...
Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf song) " Killing Floor " is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf. Called "one of the defining classics of Chicago electric blues ", [1] "Killing Floor" became a blues standard with recordings by various artists. It has been acknowledged by the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, which ...
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 is the second album from the Chicago blues singer ... In 1969 the songs "Shake for Me" and "Back Door Man" were used in the lyrics to the Led Zeppelin ...
Evil (Howlin' Wolf song) " Evil ", sometimes listed as " Evil (Is Going On) ", is a Chicago blues song written by Willie Dixon. [1] Howlin' Wolf recorded the song in Chicago for Chess Records in 1954. [2] It was included on the 1959 compilation album Moanin' in the Moonlight.
Howlin' Wolf singles chronology. " Moanin' at Midnight ". (1951) "Riding In The Moonlight". (1951) " Moanin' at Midnight " is a blues song written and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1951. The recording was released on Chess Records as his debut single. It charted on Billboard 's R&B chart, but the B-side, " How Many More Years," became the popular ...
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). Ten years later – on April 17, 2007 – the album was reissued by Geffen ...
Moanin' in the Moonlight is a compilation album and the first album by American blues artist Howlin' Wolf, released by Chess Records in 1959. It contains songs previously issued as singles, including one of his best-known, "Smokestack Lightning". Rolling Stone ranked it number 477 on its 2020 list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".