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Howlin' Wolf
ハウリン・ウルフ

  • BORN: June 10, 1910, West Point, Mississippi
    1910年6月10日、ミシシッピ州ウェスト・ポイント生まれ
  • DIED: January 10, 1976, Hines, Illinois
    1976年1月10日、イリノイ州ハインで死去
  • vocals harmonica guitar

猛獣のようなブルースマンだったハウリン・ウルフ。ギターはドッカリー・プランテーションでチャーリー・パットンから教わったという。40年代後半にウェスト・メンフィスに出て、ギターのウィリー・ジョンソン、ピアノのディストラクション(破壊屋)といったメンバーから成るバンドを結成。その後ウェスト・メンフィスのラジオ局KWEMでDJ兼、演奏者となる。サム・フィリップスが所有するメンフィス・レコーディング・サーヴィスで初レコーディング。フィリップスはウルフのテープをシカゴのチェス・レコードに送った。また、同じ頃RPMのタレント・スカウトをしていたアイク・ターナーがウルフの再レコーディングを行い、そのテープをビハリ兄弟に送った。その結果、同じような曲がチェス、RPM両社から発売されてしまった。チェスとビハリ兄弟は裁判に訴え、熾烈な争奪戦に。最終的にはチェスがウルフを、ビハリが新人のロスコー・ゴードンを取ることで和解し、ウルフはシカゴへ移住。以後ウルフは、片腕的存在ヒューバート・サムリンのギターをバックに、チェスで「スモークスタック・ライトニン」「キリング・フロア」「イーヴル」など名曲を残し、死ぬ直前まで素晴らしいコンサートを続けた。

Recordings

early 1951, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The Moonlight)
May 14, 1951, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The Moonlight)
  • How Many More Years
circa June 1951
  • Baby Ride With Me (Ridin' In The moonlight) (take 1)
  • Baby Ride With Me (take 2)
  • Baby Ride With Me (take 3)
  • Baby Ride With Me (Riding In The Moonlight) (take 4)
  • Baby Ride With Me
  • How Many More Years (take 1)
  • How Many More Years (take 3)
July 1951, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
September 1951, West Memphis, Arkansas
  • Riding In The Moonlight
  • Morning At Midnight
  • Keep What You Got
  • Dog Me Around
October 2, 1951, West Memphis, Arkansas
  • Passing by Blues
  • Crying at Daybreak
  • My Baby Stole Off
  • I Want Your Picture - @YouTube
December 18, 1951, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
January 23, 1952, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
February 12, 1952, West Memphis, Arkansas
  • Worried About My Baby
  • House Rockin' Boogie
  • Brown Skin Woman
  • Chocolate Drop (alternate take)
  • Driving This Highway
  • The Sun Is Rising
  • My Friends
  • I'm the Wolf
April 17, 1952, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
October 7, 1952, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Oh Red (take 1)
  • Oh Red (take 2)
  • Oh Red
  • My Last Affair
  • My Last Affair
  • C.V. Wine Blues
  • Come Back Home (take 1)
  • Come Back Home (take 2)
  • Come Back Home (take 3)
1953, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
1953, Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
  • All Night Boogie
  • I Love My Baby
  • Highway My Friend
  • Hold Your Money
  • Streamline Woman
  • California Blues
  • Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back
  • Crazy About You Baby
March 1954, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • No Place to Go - @YouTube
  • You Gonna Wreck My Life
  • Neighbors
  • I'm the Wolf
  • Rockin' Daddy
May 25, 1954, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
October 1954, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
March 1955, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Who Will Be Next
  • I Have a Little Girl
  • Come to Me Baby
  • Don't Mess with My Baby
January 1956, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Smokestack Lightnin' - @YouTube
  • You Can't Be Beat
July 19, 1956, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • I Asked for Water - @YouTube
  • So Glad
  • Break of Day
  • The Natchez Burnin'
December 1956, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Going Back Home
  • Bluebird
  • My Life
  • You Ought to Know
June 24, 1957, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Who's Been Talking
  • Tell Me
  • Somebody in My Home
  • Somebody in My Home (alternate take)
  • Nature
  • Nature
  • Nature (alternate take)
December 1957, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Walk to Camp Hall
  • Poor Boy
  • Poor Boy (alternate take)
  • My Baby Told Me
  • Sittin' on Top of the World
March 1958, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • I Didn't Know
  • Howlin' Blues (I'm Going Away)
  • I Better Go Now
  • I Better Go Now
April 3, 1958, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • I Didn't Know
  • Moanin' for My Baby (Midnight Blues)
  • Midnight Blues
September 1958, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • I'm Leavin' You
  • I'm Leavin' You (alternate take)
  • I'm Leavin' You
  • You Can't Put Me Out
  • Can't Put Me Out
  • Can't Put Me Out (alternate take)
  • Change My Way
  • Getting Late
July 1959, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • I've Been Abused
  • I've Been Abused (alternate take)
  • I've Been Abused
  • Howlin' for My Baby
  • Howlin' for My Darling
  • Howlin' for My Darling (inst track)
  • Wolf in the Mood
  • My People's Gone
  • Mr. Airplane Man
  • Mr. Airplane Man
June 1960, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Wang Dang Doodle
  • Back Door Man
  • Spoonful
May 1961, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Little Baby
  • Down in the Bottom
June 1961, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Shake for Me
  • The Red Rooster
December 1961, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • You'll Be Mine
  • Just Like I Treat You
  • I Ain't Superstitious
  • Goin' Down Slow
September 27-28, 1962, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Mama's Baby
  • Do the Do
  • Tail Dragger
  • Tail Dragger (alternate take)
  • Long Green Stuff
July 26, 1963, Copa Cabana Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • Sugar Mama
  • May I Have a Talk With You
August 14, 1963, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Hidden Charms
  • Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
  • Joy to My Soul
  • Built for Comfort
August 1964, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Love Me Darlin'
  • Killing Floor
  • My Country Sugar Mama
  • Louise
September 28, 1964, American Folk Blues Festival, Germany
  • Shake for Me
  • Love Me Darlin'
  • I'll Be Back Someday
October 9, 1964, American Folk Blues Festival, Hamburg, Germany
  • Dust My Broom
November 6, 1964, American Folk Blues Festival, Bremen, Germany
  • Shake It For Me
  • Love Me
  • Dust My Broom
  • I Didn't Mean To Hurt Your Feelings
  • Rockin' The Blues
  • All My Life
  • Going Down Slow
  • Howlin' For My Darlin'
  • Forty-Four
April 15, 1965, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • I Walked from Dallas
  • Tell Me What I've Done
  • Don't Laugh at Me
  • Ooh Baby
April 11, 1966, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Poor Wind That Never Change
  • New Crawlin' King Snake
  • My Mind Is Ramblin'
  • Commit a Crime
1966, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 300 Pounds Of Joy
  • I Walked From Dallas
  • I Asked For Water
  • I Told My Baby
  • Tell Me What I've Done
  • Down In The Bottom
  • Dust My Broom
  • Goin' Down Slow
August 1966, Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
  • Dust My Broom
June 1967, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Pop It to Me
  • I Had a Dream
  • Dust My Broom
September 1967, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • The Red Rooster
  • Diddley Daddy
  • Ooh Baby/Wrecking My Love Life
  • Spoonful
  • Goin' Down Slow
  • Sweet Little Angel
  • Long Distance Call
November 1968, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Spoonful
  • Tail Dragger
  • Built for Comfort
  • Smokestack Lightnin'
  • Moanin' at Midnight
  • The Red Rooster
  • Back Door Man
  • Evil
  • Down in the Bottom
  • Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
November 1968, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Rollin' and Tumblin'
  • I'm the Wolf
  • Ain't Going Down That Dirt Road
  • Ain't Going Down That Dirt Road #2
  • I Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog No More
  • Woke Up This Morning
  • Talk Session (Interview)
  • More Howlin' Wolf Talks
July 14, 1969, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Mary Sue
  • Hard Luck
  • The Big House
  • Tired of Crying
May 2, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
May 4, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
May 6, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
May 7, 1970, Olympic Studios, London, England
September 1970, Chicago, Illinois
  • I Smell A Rat
October 6, 1970, Chicago, Illinois
  • Miss James
  • Just As Long
  • If I Were A Bird
  • Message To The Young
  • She's Looking Good
  • Romance Without Finance
  • Turn Me On
January 26, 1972, Alice's Revisited, Chicago, Illinois
  • I Had a Dream
  • Call Me the Wolf
  • I Don't Know
  • When I Laid Down I Was Troubled
  • Just Passing By
  • Sittin' on Top of the World
  • Mean Mistreater
  • Don't Laugh at Me
  • The Big House
  • Mr. Airplane Man
September 8, 1972, Ann Arbor Blues And Jazz Festival, Michigan
  • Highway 49
May 1973, Joe's Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Little Red Rooster
  • Going Down Slow
  • Evil
  • Blind Love
August 14 & 17, 1973, Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois
  • Leave Here Walking
  • Coon on the Moon
  • Watergate Blues
  • Trying to Forget You
  • Speak Now Woman
  • Speak Now Woman (alternate)
  • Can't Stay Here
  • Stop Using Me
  • Moving
  • The Back Door Wolf
  • You Turn Slick on Me
August 1973, Ebbets Field, Denver, Colorado
  • Little Red Rooster
July 25-27, 1975, 1815 Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • Take A Little Walk With Me
  • Big House
  • Highway 49
  • Laid Down Last Night
  • After A While
  • Checkin' Up On My Baby
  • Don't Laugh At Me