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Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist. 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.
Hubert Charles Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, [1] best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf 's band. [2] He was ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone ' s "100 Greatest Guitarists of All ...
Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon. " Sitting on Top of the World " (also " Sittin' on Top of the World ") is a country blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon. They were core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, who first recorded it in 1930. Vinson claimed to have composed the song one morning after playing at a white dance in ...
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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 ...
Saxophonist, songwriter. Instrument. Tenor saxophone. Years active. Early 1950s – 2018. Labels. Various. Eddie Shaw (March 20, 1937 – January 29, 2018) [1] was an American Chicago blues tenor saxophonist, arranger and bandleader. He led Howlin' Wolf 's band, the Wolf Gang, from 1972, both before Wolf's death in 1976 and subsequently.
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."
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.