Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters

Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters

Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters
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Artist: Howlin Wolf
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2011-10-24
Music Label: Hip-O Select
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Moanin' At Midnight
  2. How Many More Years (alternate)*
  3. How Many More Years
  4. The Wolf Is At Your Door (Howlin' For My Baby)
  5. California Boogie*
  6. Smile At Me*
  7. Howlin' Wolf Boogie
  8. California Blues #1
  9. Look-A-Here
  10. Worried All The Time
  11. Gettin' Old And Grey
  12. Mr. Highway Man
  13. Everybody's In The Mood
  14. Color And Kind
  15. Bluebird (Blues)
  16. Saddle My Pony
  17. Dorothy Mae (alternate take)*
  18. Dorothy Mae
  19. Sweet Woman (a/k/a I Got A Woman)
  20. Well That's All Right
  21. Decoration Day (Blues)
  22. Oh Red
  23. My Last Affair
  24. I've Got A Woman
  25. Just My Kind
  26. Work For Your Money
Music CD 2
  1. I'm Not Joking
  2. Mama Died And Left Me
  3. All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
  4. I Love My Baby
  5. Highway My Friend
  6. Hold Your Money
  7. Streamline Woman
  8. California Blues #2
  9. Stay Here Til My Baby Comes Back
  10. Crazy About You Baby
  11. No Place To Go (You Gonna Wreck My Life)
  12. You Gonna Wreck My Life (No Place To Go) (alternate take)
  13. Neighbors
  14. I'm The Wolf
  15. Rockin' Daddy
  16. Baby How Long
  17. Evil (Is Goin' On)
  18. I'll Be Around
  19. Forty Four
  20. Who Will Be Next
  21. I Have A Little Girl
  22. Come To Me Baby
  23. Don't Mess With My Baby
  24. Smokestack Lightnin'
  25. You Can't Be Beat
  26. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
  27. So Glad
Music CD 3
  1. Break Of Day
  2. The Natchez Burning
  3. Going Back Home*
  4. Bluebird
  5. My Life
  6. You Ought To Know
  7. Tell Me
  8. Somebody In My Home (alternate take)*
  9. Somebody In My Home
  10. Nature (takes 1/4/6)*
  11. Nature (alternate take)
  12. Nature
  13. Walk To Camp Hall
  14. Poor Boy (alternate take)
  15. Poor
  16. My Baby Told Me
  17. Sittin' On Top Of The World
  18. I Didn't Know*
  19. I Better Go Now (Howlin' Blues) (alternate)*
  20. Howlin' Blues (I'm Going Away)
  21. I Better Go Now (multiple takes)*
  22. I Didn't Know
  23. Moaning For My Baby (Midnight Blues)
  24. Moaning For My Baby (Midnight Blues) (takes 3 & 4)*
Music CD 4
  1. I'm Leaving You (alternate take)*
  2. I'm Leaving You (takes 7-10)*
  3. I'm Leaving You
  4. Can't Put Me Out (alternate)*
  5. Can't Put Me Out (alternate)
  6. (You) Can't Put Me Out
  7. Change My Way
  8. Getting Late
  9. I've Been Abused (alternate take)*
  10. I've Been Abused (takes 4-12)*
  11. I've Been Abused
  12. Howlin' For My Baby (takes 1-7)*
  13. Howlin' For My Darling (Or Baby)
  14. Wolf In The Mood (instrumental)
  15. My People's Gone
  16. Mr. Airplane Man (takes 1-2)
  17. Mr. Airplane Man
  18. Wang-Dang-Doodle
  19. Back Door Man
  20. Spoonful *Previously unreleased in U.S.

Description of Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters

"When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me.' This is where the soul of man never dies."

--Sam Phillips Perhaps the most unique and powerful performer in the history of the blues, Chester Arthur Burnett, a/k/a Howlin' Wolf, created a remarkable catalog of music for Chess Records beginning 60 years ago, in 1951, right into the 1970s. The Mississippi native first brought his ferocious, attacking style to Sam Phillips's Memphis studio, and the legendary founder of Sun Records would then send the recordings to Chess in Chicago. Less than three years later, Wolf migrated to the Windy City and thereafter recorded directly for Leonard and Phil Chess. Within another year, Willie Dixon was brought in as studio bassist and contributing songwriter. The result of these musical interactions was Wolf creating a litany of masterworks throughout his first decade of recording, a stellar songbook that ranged from his great first Chess single, "Moanin' At Midnight" b/w "How Many More Years," through the last session presented on this box set featuring three classic Willie Dixon tunes: "Wang Dang Doodle," "Back Door Man" and "Spoonful." There's also "Evil," "Smokestack Lightnin'," "I Asked For Water," "Sittin' On Top Of The World" and so on. The 97 tracks here on these 4 CDs (including many rarities) are simply the recordings that established a legend --the crux of the reason The Wolf is celebrated by music fans of all stripes. Accompanying this music is a 45-page booklet filled with historic photos (many quite rare) and two sets of liner notes--one focusing on Sam Phillips and The Wolf by much heralded author Peter Guralnick, and a more general overview of Wolf's first decade of recording by noted blues expert and producer Dick Shurman.

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