Biography

Charles "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett's menacing, guttural vocals are among the blues' most distinctive sounds. His Chess recordings, including "Smokestack Lightning" and "Little Red Rooster," are landmarks which altered the flow of blues history and helped pave the way for rock 'n' roll. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Howlin' Wolf never really faded away (only to be rediscovered), but continued to tour constantly almost up until his death in 1976 of natural causes. Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Sonny Boy Williamson make up the Holy Trinity of Chicago blues, an electrified, mid-20th century urban genre that profoundly influenced the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, and countless others.

Top Tracks

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• Baby Ride With Me

• Baby Ride With Me (ridin' In The Moonlight)

• Back Door Man

• Built For Comfort

• Call Me The Wolf

• Crying At Daybreak

• Dog Me Around

• Dorothy Mae

• Down In The Bottom

• Everybody's In The Mood

• Evil

• Evil (is Goin' On)

• Evil (is Going On)

• Evil Is Going On

• Forty Four

• Forty-four

• Goin' Down Slow

• Got My Mojo Working (encore)

• Highway 49

• Highway Man

• House Rockin' Boogie

• How Many More Years

• Howlin' Wolf Boogie

• I Ain't Superstitious

• I Ain't Superstitious [1970 Alternate Take]

• I Asked For Water (she Gave Me Gasoline)

• I Got A Woman (sweet Woman)

• I Have A Little Girl

• I'll Be Around

• I'm Ready

• I'm The Wolf

• Just My Kind

• Killing Floor

• Killing Floor [1974 London Revisited Version]

• Little Red Rooster

• Louise

• Manish Boy

• Mean Mistreater

• Moanin' At Midnight

• Moanin' For My Baby

• Moaning At Midnight

• Morning At Midnight

• Moving

• My Baby Walked Off

• My Country Sugar Mama

• My Troubles And Me

• Natchez Burning

• Nine Below Zero

• Oh, Red!

• Riding In The Moonlight

• Rockin' Daddy

• Shake For Me

• Sittin' On Top Of The World

• Sitting On Top Of The World

• Smokestack Lightnin'

• Smokestack Lightning

• Spoonful

• Stop Using Me

• The Killing Floor

• The Natchez Burning

• The Red Rooster

• The Wolf Is At Your Door

• Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy

• Wang Dang Doodle

• What A Woman! (a/k/a Commit A Crime) [alternate Take]

Discography

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• Heart Like a Railroad Steel

  Blues Ball

  1979

• Can't Put Me Out

  Blues Ball

  1979

• The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions

  Universal Distribution

  1974

• Muddy & the Wolf

  Chess / MCA/Chess

  1974

• London Revisited

  Chess

  1974

• Howlin' Wolf aka Chester Burnett

  Chess

  1974

• Message to the Young

  Universal Distribution

  1971

• Goin' Back Home

  Syndicate

  1970

• This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album

  Get on Down

  1969

• Evil

  Not Now

  1969

• The Super Super Blues Band

  Universal Special Products

  1968

• The Original Folk Blues

  1967

• Live in Cambridge, 1966

  New Rose

  1966

• Big City Blues

  Custom

  1966

• Poor Boy

  Chess

  1965

• Moanin' in the Moonlight [Chess]

  Universal Distribution

  1962

• Howlin' Wolf [1962]

  Universal Distribution

  1962

• The Rockin' Chair Album

  Vogue

  1962

• Howlin' Wolf Sings the Blues

  P-Vine Records

  1962