The Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs: 1951-1962

by Howlin' Wolf

Overview

With his larger-than-life persona, roaring vocals, and the raw, skittering guitar lines of Hubert Sumlin behind him, Howlin' Wolf turned out dozens of stellar Chicago blues singles for RPM and Chess Records between 1951 and 1962, including "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Spoonful," "Red Rooster," and the magnificent "Killing Floor," among many others. All of these, along with his other classic and essential singles (both A- and B-sides) from the first decade of his career, are collected here in this expansive, three-disc, 80-track set, which also includes several sides recorded at sessions during this period but never released. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	06/03/2014
Label:	Acrobat Music
UPC:	0824046903923
Rank:	48853

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Moanin' at Midnight
2. How Many More Years
3. Riding in the Moonlight
4. Morning at Midnight
5. Passing by Blues
6. Crying at Daybreak
7. My Baby Stole Off
8. I Want Your Picture
9. Wolf Is at Your Door
10. Howlin' Wolf Boogie
11. Getting Old and Grey
12. Mr. Highway Man
13. Saddle My Pony
14. Worried All the Time
15. Oh, Red!
16. My Last Affair
17. All Night Boogie
18. I Love My Baby
19. No Place to Go
20. Rockin' Daddy
21. Baby How Long
22. Evil Is Going On
23. I'll Be Around
24. Forty-Four
25. Who Will Be Next
26. I Have a Little Girl

Disc 2

27. Come to Me Baby
28. Don't Mess with My Baby
29. Smokestack Lightning
30. You Can't Be Beat
31. I Asked for Water
32. So Glad
33. Goin' Back Home
34. My Life
35. Somebody in My Home
36. Nature
37. Poor Boy
38. Sittin' on Top of the World
39. I Didn't Know
40. Moaning for My Baby
41. I'm Leaving You
42. Change My Way
43. Howlin' Blues
44. I Better Go Now
45. I've Been Abused
46. Mister Airplane Man
47. You Gonna Wreck My Life
48. The Natchez Burning
49. Who's Been Talking
50. Tell Me
51. Spoonful
52. Howlin' for My Baby
53. Wang Dang Doodle

Disc 3

54. Back Door Man
55. Little Baby
56. Down in the Bottom
57. Shake for Me
58. The Red Rooster
59. You'll Be Mine
60. Goin' Down Slow
61. Just Like I Treat You
62. I Ain't Superstitious
63. Mama's Baby
64. Do the Do
65. Keep What You Got
66. California Blues
67. California Boogie
68. My Troubles and Me
69. Worried About My Baby
70. Brown Skin Woman
71. House Rockin' Boogie
72. Driving This Highway
73. The Sun Is Rising
74. Stealing My Clothes
75. I'm the Wolf
76. Highway My Friend
77. Hold Your Money
78. Stay Here till My Baby Comes Back
79. Crazy About You Baby
80. Streamline Woman

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Howlin' Wolf   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica,Sax (Tenor)
Sam Lay   Drums
Albert Williams   Piano
Otis Smokey Smothers   Guitar
Willie Dixon   Bass,Drums
Hosea Lee Kennard   Piano
Willie Steel   Drums
Adolph Duncan   Sax (Tenor)
Lee Cooper   Guitar
Junior Blackman   Drums
L.D. McGhee   Guitar
L.C. Hubert   Piano
Walter Smith   Trombone
Abb Locke   Sax (Tenor)
Charles Taylor   Sax (Tenor)
Abraham Smothers   Guitar
Jody Williams   Guitar
Earl Phillips   Drums
Freddy Robinson   Guitar
Johnny Jones   Piano
Jerome Arnold   Bass
Hubert Sumlin   Guitar
S.P. Leary   Drums
Otis Spann   Piano
Calvin Newborn   Guitar
Willie Johnson   Bass,Drums,Guitar
Henry Gray   Piano
Alfred Elkins   Bass
Jimmy Rogers   Guitar
Fred Below   Drums
Ike Turner   Piano
J.T. Brown   Sax (Tenor)

Technical Credits

Chester Burnett   Composer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Lonnie Graham   Composer
Sam Phillips   Engineer
Paul Watts   Liner Notes
J. Little Sanders   Composer
Joe Bihari   Engineer
James Oden   Composer
Sonny Boy Williamson II   Composer