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While Robert Johnson's professional recording career can be measured in months, his musical legacy has survived more than 70 years. Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, the two most prominent Chicago bluesmen of the 1950s, both had their roots in the Delta: Muddy was influenced by Johnson's records, [20] and Wolf worked with Johnson around the Delta ...
Chester Burnette A.K.A. Howlin' Wolf: Howlin' Wolf Cadet 2CA-60017 The Heatin' System: Jack McDuff: Cadet 2CA-60018 Inside: Ramsey Lewis: Cadet 2CA-60019 Cool Cookin' Kenny Burrell: Chess CH-60020 The London Chuck Berry Sessions: Chuck Berry: Cadet CA-60021 12 X 6 The Hard Way: Various Artists Cadet CA-60022 12 X 6 The Easy Way: Various Artists ...
Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin.The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records.
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.
He is best known as the principal guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band from 1948 to 1953. [2] His raucous, distorted guitar playing is prominent on Howlin' Wolf's Memphis recordings during 1951–1953, including the hit song "How Many More Years" (recorded May 1951). [3] In 2017, Johnson was posthumously inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. [4]
Cadillac Records: Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack album for the film Cadillac Records.It features covers of classic songs from Chess Records' singers as performed by the film's actors including Beyoncé (as Etta James), Eamonn Walker (as Howlin' Wolf) and Jeffrey Wright (as Muddy Waters).
Charlie Rowe stars as the only son of Thomas Cromwell, Gregory, in the forthcoming season of Wolf Hall – a role formerly played by Tom Holland. Rowe has previously appeared in the sci-fi romance ...
Howlin' Wolf is the credited songwriter on the RPM release, but the Chess single was originally credited to Carl Germany, who was a disc jockey and dance promoter in Chicago. [6] Later reissues of the recordings have been revised to credit to Chester Burnett. [4] "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years" later appeared on Howlin' Wolf's ...