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Track Listing
1. Moanin' at Midnight
2. How Many More Years
3. Evil (Is Going On)
4. Forty-Four
5. Smokestack Lightnin'
6. I Asked For Water
7. Who's Been Talkin'
8. Sitting on Top of the World
9. Howlin' For My Darlin'
10. Wang Dang Doodle
11. Back Door Man
12. Spoonful
13. Shake For Me
14. Red Rooster, The
15. I Ain't Superstitious
16. Goin' Down Slow
17. Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
18. Hidden Charms
19. Built For Comfort
20. Killing Floor
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Recording information: 1951 - 1964.
The Howlin' Wolf best-of compilation DEFINITIVE COLLECTION sports the exact same track list as the CHESS 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. In fact, DEFINITIVE is a straight-up repackaging of that set, right down to the cover photo. Fortunately, CHESS 50th, and by extension DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, is staggeringly great, start to finish.
With a heavy emphasis on the Wolf's 1950s Chess classics such as "Smokestack Lightnin'," "I Asked for Water," and "Spoonful," it's impossible to go wrong with this collection. Wolf's band at the time, featuring the angular and inimitable Hubert Sumlin on guitar, could burn a house to the ground, but it's the Wolf's hulking vocal presence, replete with growls, groans, husky solicitations, and goosebump-raising yowls that earmark this material as some of the most compelling blues ever put to wax. Every track is essential, making the set a necessity for any fan of roots, blues, or rock.
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