HOWLIN' WOLF MINT "THE HOWLIN WOLF ALBUM" CULT CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC BLUES ROCK

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HOWLIN' WOLF MINT "THE HOWLIN WOLF ALBUM" CULT CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC BLUES ROCK!
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This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album Review by Steve Leggett

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Born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, Chester Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, helped modernize the country blues with his powerful vocal style and harmonica work and his ability to connect with an audience no matter what stage he prowled. This album, though, originally released in 1969 on the Chess Records subsidiary Cadet Concept Records, is hardly typical Wolf, and the bluesman himself hated it, which may in some way have contributed to the album's odd cult standing. The idea was as simple as it was probably misguided, an attempt to modernize Wolf's sound into psychedelic Jimi Hendrix land, and the results were, well, odd at best, and laughable and lamentable at worst, and through no fault of Wolf's, who obviously tried his best to make sense of all of it. Howlin' Wolf completists will want this for its novelty value, but it's far from an accurate portrait of this powerful bluesman's talent and appeal.

MY NOTES: THINK ABOUT THIS . . . IF AMERICAN AND BRITISH MUSICIANS WERE ELECTRIFYING YOUR SONGS, i.e., (SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING [THE YARDBIRDS], SPOONFUL [CREAM] & BACK DOOR MAN [THE DOORS], DON'T YOU THINK THE ARTIST MIGHT WANT TO RECLAIM HIS MUSIC IN WHAT WAS A VERY "ELECTRIC AGE?" . . . YEAH, I THOUGHT SO!

Howlin' Wolf – The Howlin' Wolf Album

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Label: Cadet Concept – LPS-319, Cadet Concept – LPS-319 DJ Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: Jan 1969 Genre: Rock, Blues Style: Electric Blues, Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist

A1 Spoonful 3:48 A2 Tail Dragger 4:20 A3 Smokestack Lightning 5:54 A4 Moanin' At Midnight 3:13 A5 Built For Comfort 5:07 B1 The Red Rooster 3:48 B2 Evil 4:06 B3 Down In The Bottom 2:43 B4 Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy 2:34 B5 Back Door Man 6:17

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Recorded At – Ter Mar Studios
Published By – Arc Music Corp.
Manufactured By – Chess Producing Corp.
Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis

Credits

Design – H. Blume*
Drums – Morris Jennings
Electric Bass – Louis Satterfield
Electric Guitar – Hubert Sumlin, Phil Upchurch (tracks: B2, B4, B5), Roland Faulkner
Electric Guitar, Guitar [Bowed] – Pete Cosey
Engineer – Ron Malo
Flute – Donald Myrick* (tracks: A3)
Photography By – Jeff Leowenthal
Producer – Charles Stepney, Gene Barge, Marshall Chess
Saxophone [Electric] – Gene Barge (tracks: A3)
Vocals, Harmonica – Howlin' Wolf
Written-By – Chester Burnett (tracks: A3, A4, B2), Willie Dixon (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B1, B3 to B5)

Notes

Promotional issue with "Promotion Copy NOT FOR SALE" printed on both labels.

First catalog number on cover, second on labels

Title on Cover: This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album. He Doesn't Like It. He Didn't Like His Electric Guitar At First Either.

Recorded November 1968 at Ter Mar Studios – Chicago. Cadet Concept Records, Chicago, Ill., 60616. Can be played on mono or stereo equipment.

Mfg. By Chess Producing Corp. Chicago, IL 60616