Howlin' Wolf - The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
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Artist: Howlin' WolfBrand: Dig
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Rockin' Daddy
- I Ain't Superstitious
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Worried About My Baby
- What a Woman!
- Poor Boy
- Built for Comfort
- Who's Been Talking?
- Red Rooster
- Do the Do
- Highway 49
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Goin' Down Slow (Bonus Track)
- Killing Floor (Bonus Track)
- I Want To Have A Word With You (Bonus Track)
- Worried About My Baby (Rehearsal Take)
- The Red Rooster (Alternate Mix)
- What A Woman (Alternate Take)
- Who's Been Talking (Alternate Take)
- Worried About My baby (Alternate Take)
- I Ain't Superstitious (Alternate Take)
- Highway 49 (Alternate Take)
- Do The Do (Alternate Take)
- Poor Boy (Alternate Take)
- I Ain't Superstitious (Alternate Take)
- What A Woman (Alternate Mix)
- Rockin' Daddy (Alternate Mix)
Music reviews of The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Music Review: a big disappointment
Rating: 2 Stars
Amazon's critic, Hal Horowitz, pretty much says it all here. Whether it was Wolf's health or any other set of circumstances, these recording sessions simply never found their groove, and the result is miserable. It seems perverse to use the word "boring" for an album headlining a performer whose voice alone would wake the dead, and some of the best - and certainly most famous - musicians of the time, but boring it is, at least for the most part. Honestly, I can't quite put my finger on the "why": everyone plays their best, supporting the big man with respect approaching reverence, but somehow the whole effort just fails to take off. There are a few notable exceptions, and if you program your CD player to play only a few of these numbers at a time, you'll get a glimpse of what the sum of it all could have been. "Who's Been Talking" works because the rhythm is almost the opposite of blues, bouncy and lilting, it owes more to rock than blues and is a lot of fun. It is undoubtedly endearing to hear the stars of the day buttering up the old man in order to get him to play acoustic guitar along with them on "The Red Rooster," even if the studio chatter is more exciting than the song that follows it. "Do the Do" is fast and tense, and "Wang Dang Doodle" snakes along at just the right pace, half-lazy and half-stompin'. Unfortunately, the 13 selections on the original issue of the recording were at least three or four too many, several dragging along listlessly, sounding one exactly like the other. It's hard to beieve that the indifferent "Sittin' on Top of the World" was once Wolf's signature number, and it's also with reluctance that one admits that, un-PC as this may sound, several of the songs were in a way ruined for Wolf by being made famous in blistering interpretations by Cream, Stones, et al. To've augmented this failed project by a whole second CD of rehearsals smells of either despair or overzealousness.
Description of The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Shipping sixtysomething blues icon Howlin' Wolf to England in May 1970, accompanied by his guitarist Hubert Sumlin, was a crapshoot. Wolf?s health was poor and he hadn?t recorded outside of Chicago since 1954. Not surprisingly, Wolf?s London excursion remains a mixed bag. Certainly, the participants? hearts were in their music--with the notable exception perhaps of Wolf's--but the result never quite gelled. When the Brit rockers such as Eric Clapton the Rolling Stones? Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts dug into his songs, they collided with the ornery bluesman. Producer Norman Dayron later overdubbed Steve Winwood and Lafayette Leake?s keyboards (along with horns on a few tracks) to salvage the sessions. Of all the classic Chess albums, this is an odd choice to expand with a second disc of outtakes, none of which are particularly revelatory. Still, Clapton is fiery throughout, and Wolf, although not in prime form, is never less than convincing. Though often criticized, most notably by Clapton himself, Howlin' Wolf's London Sessions offers a worthy--though not essential--snapshot of the legend in his waning years. -Hal HorowitzGeneral CDs
- Styles > Blues
- Chicago Blues
- Contemporary Blues
- Electric Blues Guitar
- Regional Blues > Memphis Blues
- Traditional Blues
- Classic Rock > Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
- British Invasion
- Hard Rock & Metal > General
- Jazz > General
- Bebop > Bebop General
- Pop > General
- By Decade > 1970s
- Adult Contemporary
- Rock > General
- Blues Rock
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