| Howling Wolf Sings the Blues | ||||
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| Released | 1962 (1962) | |||
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| Studio | KWEM Radio Station, West Memphis, Arkansas | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 30:08 | |||
| Label | Crown | |||
| Producer | Joe Bihari | |||
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Howling Wolf Sings the Blues is a compilation album by blues musicianHowlin' Wolf, which was released byCrown Records in 1962.[1][2] The original album included eight songs recorded forModern Records between 1951 and 1952, including those tracks that were released as singles by theRPM, and an additional two instrumentals byJoe Hill Louis.[2] The album was re-released in 1970 by United Records with the alternative titleBig City Blues.
AllMusic reviewerRichie Unterberger called it: "groundbreaking early electric blues, though not quite up to the peaks he'd scale with his bestChess sessions of the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s. The electric guitar had rarely been recorded with as much fuzzy power as it was here, for one thing, and Howlin' Wolf's vocals were already possessed of magnificent, sometimes scary intensity ... This has almost everything Howlin' Wolf cut forModern in the early '50s, and is thus an essential supplement to his more celebrated Chess catalog for the serious fan".[2]
All compositions credited to Chester Burnett except where noted
Additional tracks on CD reissue
Recorded in West Memphis at KWEM Radio Station in September 1951 (tracks 1 & 7–9), October 2, 1951 (tracks 3, 11 & 12), and in West Memphis on February 12, 1952 (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 13–16)
Tracks 5 & 10:
