THE BEST OF HOWLIN' WOLF 1951-1958 4-CD Boxed Set
DISC 1 – VARIOUS ARTISTS:
Bluebird Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson / Pony Blues - Charley Patton / Poor Boy Long Way From Home - Gus Cannon / Roll And Tumble Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern / Oh! Red - Harlem Hamfats / Moon Goin' Down - Charley Patton / How Long How Long Blues - Leroy Carr / Sugar Mama Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson / Sitting On Top The World -
Mississippi Sheiks / Dust My Broom - Elmore James / Louise Louise Blues - Johnny Temple / A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton / Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson / I’m So Glad - Skip James / Blue Yodel (T For Texas) - Jimmie Rodgers / Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - Charley Patton / Goin' Down Slow - St. Louis Jimmy / Crawlin' King Snake - Tony Hollins / Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Skip James / 34 Blues - Charley Patton
DISC 2 – HOWLIN’ WOLF:
Moanin' At Midnight / How Many More Years / Riding In The Moonlight / Morning At Midnight / Passing By Blues / Crying At Daybreak / My Baby Stole Off / I Want Your Picture / The Wolf Is At Your Door / Howlin' Wolf Boogie / Worried All The Time / Getting Old And Grey / Mr. Highway Man / Saddle My Pony / Oh! Red / My Last Affair / All Night Boogie / I Love My Baby / No Place To Go / Rockin' Daddy
DISC 3 – HOWLIN’ WOLF:
Baby How Long / Evil / I'll Be Around / Forty Four / Who Will Be Next? / I Have A Little Girl / Don’t Mess With My Baby / Smokestack Lightnin' / You Can't Be Beat / I Asked For Water / So Glad / Going Back Home / My Life / Somebody In My Home / Nature / Poor Boy / Sitting On Top Of The World / I Didn't Know / Moanin' For My Baby / I'm Leaving You
DISC 4 – DVD
4 disc set revolving around legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf and featuring other
artists that influenced him. Included here are Howlin' Wolf's finest recordings made between 1951 and 1958, and a further CD featuring artists that influenced The Wolf including
Charlie Patton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Leroy Carr, Elmore James, Skip James, Jimmie
Rodgers and many more.
Howlin' Wolf, along with Muddy Waters, defined the Chicago sound of the 1950s and influenced generations of would be Rock stars in the process.