"played at Earls Court on 21–23 & 27 May. ""Cherry Oh Baby"" was played in Paris on 7 June. The Rolling Stones also appeared at Knebworth Fair in August 1976, where they added ""(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"", ""Around and Around"", ""Little Red Rooster"", ""Stray Cat Blues"", ""Let's Spend the Night Together"", ""Dead Flowers"", ""Route 66"", a fragment of ""Country Honk,"" ""Wild Horses,"" and ""Rip This Joint"" to the above set list. The Rolling Stones Tour of Europe '76 The Rolling Stones' Tour of Europe '76 was a concert tour of Europe that took place in Spring 1976. Tickets were"
"Howlin' Wolf (album) Howlin' Wolf is the second studio album from Chicago blues singer/guitarist/harmonicist Howlin' Wolf. It is a collection of twelve singles previously released by the Chess label from 1960 through 1962. Because of the illustration on its sleeve (by Don S. Bronstein), the album is often called The Rockin' Chair Album, a nickname even added to the cover on some reissue pressings of the LP. In 1966, fellow Chess artist Koko Taylor recorded a cover version of ""Wang Dang Doodle"" which reached #4 on the Billboard's R&B Charts and became a minor crossover hit by making #58 on"
"Willie Johnson (guitarist) Willie Johnson (March 4, 1923 – February 26, 1995) was an American electric blues guitarist. He is best known as the principal guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band from 1948–53. His raucous, distorted guitar playing features on Howlin' Wolf's Memphis recordings of 1951–3, including the hit song ""How Many More Years"" (recorded May 1951). In 2017, Johnson was posthumously inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. Willie Lee Johnson was born in Senatobia, Mississippi. As the guitarist in the first band led by Howlin' Wolf, he appeared on most of Wolf's recordings between 1951 and 1953. He"
"The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions is an album by blues musician Howlin' Wolf released in 1971 on Chess Records, and on Rolling Stones Records in Britain. It was one of the first super session blues albums, setting a blues master among famous musicians from the second generation of rock and roll, in this case Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman. It peaked at #79 on the ""Billboard"" 200. Backstage at the Fillmore Auditorium, after a concert by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag, and Cream, Chess Records staff producer Norman Dayron"
"Waters and Howlin' Wolf was powerful and rebellious and had come out of struggle in a way that spoke to the British Working Class, who were not politically constrained as they were in white America. In 1962, The Rolling Stones formed and started playing in the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond. Their Blues with a British twist proved a hit with teenage audiences. The Rolling Stones began creating their own songs with lyrics loaded with arrogance and sex. Their space at the Crawdaddy club was taken by The Yardbirds, who attempted to produce their own twist on the blues, helped by"
"Rogers, Fenton Robinson, Lucky Peterson, John Lee Hooker, John Mayer, Bob Dylan, Gillan, Mike Harrison, Soundgarden, Widespread Panic, moe., Gov't Mule, Lester Butler, George Thorogood, Aerosmith, Bintangs, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Gun Club, Blues Creation and Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Smokestack Lightning ""Smokestack Lightning"" (also ""Smoke Stack Lightning"" or ""Smokestack Lightnin'"") is a blues song recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1956. It became one of his most popular and influential songs. It is based on earlier blues songs, and numerous artists later interpreted it. Wolf had performed ""Smokestack Lightning"" in one form or another at least by the"
"Rollin' Stone ""Rollin' Stone"" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1950. It is his interpretation of ""Catfish Blues"", a Delta blues that dates back to 1920s Mississippi. Although the single (with ""Walkin' Blues"" as the B-side) did not appear in the national record charts, it sold about 70,000 copies. ""Still a Fool"", recorded by Muddy Waters a year later using the same arrangement and melody, reached number nine on the Billboard R&B chart. ""Rollin' Stone"" has been recorded by a variety of artists, and both ""Rolling Stone"" magazine and the rock group the Rolling Stones are named"
"in January 1956, Howlin' Wolf recorded ""Smokestack Lightning"". The song takes the form of ""a propulsive, one-chord vamp, nominally in E major but with the flatted blue notes that make it sound like E minor"", and lyrically it is ""a pastiche of ancient blues lines and train references, timeless and evocative"". Longtime Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin is credited with the distinctive guitar line. Howlin' Wolf sang and played harmonica, backed by pianist Hosea Lee Kennard, guitarists Willie Johnson and Hubert Sumlin, bassist Willie Dixon, and drummer Earl Phillips. In 1956, ""Smokestack Lightning"" reached number 11 in the Billboard R&B chart."
"The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll is a 2003 documentary about the life of blues legend Howlin' Wolf. It features much new and rare material, including Howlin' Wolf performing ""How Many More Years?"" on the TV musical show ""Shindig!"", introduced by the Rolling Stones, drummer Sam Lay's home movies of stars of the Chicago Blues from the early 1960s, interviews with Howlin' Wolf's family, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold, Marshall Chess and many others, photographs of Howlin' Wolf and his band through"
"1968 album ""The Progressive Blues Experiment"". Taste in 1969 on their debut album released an arrangement of the song simply titled ""Catfish."" Humble Pie drew on the song for their 1971 albums ""Rock On"" and ""Performance Rockin' the Fillmore"". In 1993, Paul Rodgers with Jeff Beck recorded it for """". Rollin' Stone ""Rollin' Stone"" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1950. It is his interpretation of ""Catfish Blues"", a Delta blues that dates back to 1920s Mississippi. Although the single (with ""Walkin' Blues"" as the B-side) did not appear in the national record charts, it sold about"
"in the UK during this period). Although it appeared at the top of the British chart for one week, Jagger later commented, ""I still dig 'Little Red Rooster', but it didn't sell"". Egan believes that actual sales of the record may have fallen short of previous Stones' singles. Howlin' Wolf's original ""The Red Rooster"" is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the ""500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll"". As well as being a blues standard, Janovitz calls ""Little Red Rooster"" a ""classic song [that] has been recorded countless times, a warhorse for most late-'60s"
"King Snake"" became one of Hooker's most successful singles, reaching number six on the Billboard R&B chart in 1949. Hooker recorded several subsequent versions of the song, including one with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards for Hooker's 1991 album ""Mr. Lucky"". ""Crawling King Snake"" ""remained one of his signature songs and became a concert staple for dozens of blues-rock bands"". Various musicians have recorded their interpretations of ""Crawling King Snake"", including Howlin' Wolf (1966), Fear Itself (1969), Big Walter Horton (1970), and Muddy Waters (1971). American rock band The Doors, who had performed the song since the earliest days of"
"J. T. Smith (musician) John T. Smith (c. 1890 – c. 1940), variously known as the Howling Wolf, ""Funny Paper"" Smith, ""Funny Papa"" Smith, and Howling Smith, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released around ten singles in his own name or variants thereof. He also recorded with Bernice Edwards, Black Boy Shine, Magnolia Harris, and Dessa Foster. His best-known song was ""Howling Wolf Blues"", of which several variants were recorded. Many of his original recordings were unreleased at the time. All are now available on compilation albums. Little is known about Smith, and some reported details"
"Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf song) ""Killing Floor"" is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf. Called ""one of the defining classics of Chicago electric blues"", ""Killing Floor"" has been recorded by various artists and has been acknowledged by the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame. Howlin' Wolf recorded ""Killing Floor"" in 1964 and it was released as a single. According to blues guitarist and longtime Wolf associate Hubert Sumlin, the song refers to male-female relationships: ""Down on the killing floor – that means a woman has you down, she went out of her way to try to"
"Howlin' Wolf, recording with him such notable blues classics as ""Spoonful"", ""Back Door Man"" and ""Wang Dang Doodle"". In the mid-1960s, he played with R&B singers Jerry Butler and Syl Johnson, before joining Ray Charles' band in Los Angeles. While there, he recorded the instrumental ""Black Fox"", which became a minor pop hit reaching #56 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and # 29 on the R&B chart. In the early 1970s, he worked with English blues bandleader John Mayall, playing on the album ""Jazz Blues Fusion"", and recorded LPs with trumpeter Blue Mitchell. He also recorded two albums in his"
"Floor, took their name from the song's title. Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf song) ""Killing Floor"" is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf. Called ""one of the defining classics of Chicago electric blues"", ""Killing Floor"" has been recorded by various artists and has been acknowledged by the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame. Howlin' Wolf recorded ""Killing Floor"" in 1964 and it was released as a single. According to blues guitarist and longtime Wolf associate Hubert Sumlin, the song refers to male-female relationships: ""Down on the killing floor – that means a woman has you down, she"
"Super Blues Super Blues is a 1967 studio album by a blues supergroup consisting of Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter. The album was released in both mono and stereo formats by Checker Records in June 1967. A follow-up album ""The Super Super Blues Band"" was released later that year and featured Howlin' Wolf replacing Little Walter. The album was produced by Ralph Bass for Chess Records, although Marshall and Phil Chess were present at the sessions and were credited with supervision. The album's recording engineers were Doug Brand and Ron Malo. The song featured on the album were"
"Howlin' Wolf Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi. With a booming voice and imposing physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists. The musician and critic Cub Koda noted, ""no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits."" Producer Sam Phillips recalled, ""When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of"
"the central guitar lick in rock 'n' roll, and that's the first time we heard that played on a distorted guitar. It was an old big band lick, turned into something completely fresh. How Many More Years ""How Many More Years"" is a blues song written and originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf (born Chester Burnett) in July 1951. Recorded at the Memphis Recording Service – which later became the Sun Studio – it was released by Chess Records and reached no.4 on the ""Billboard"" R&B chart. Musician and record producer T-Bone Burnett has described ""How Many More Years"" as ""in"
"pop fame was diminished"". It was the band's last cover song to be released as a single during the 1960s. In 1964 and 1965, the Rolling Stones performed ""Little Red Rooster"" several times on television, including the British programs ""Ready Steady Go!"" (November 20, 1964) and ""Thank Your Lucky Stars"" (December 5, 1964); and the American ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" (May 2, 1965), ""Shindig!"" (May 20, 1965), and ""Shivaree"" (May 1965). On ""Shindig!"", Jagger and Jones introduced Howlin' Wolf as the first one to record ""Little Red Rooster"" and as one of their first influences. Although often reported that the"
"UK by Pye International Records that year, peaked at number 42 in the singles chart and was covered by the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Animals and The Who. On 5 December 1964 the Rolling Stones version of Willie Dixon's ""Little Red Rooster"", based on Howlin' Wolf's 1961 version and recorded at Chess Records in Chicago, topped the UK chart for one week. Willie Dixon-penned songs would continue to be covered by British artists. The most commercially successful act in the genre, were the Rolling Stones. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, who had renewed their childhood association after discovering a shared"
"some old levee camp number"": Howlin' Wolf recorded the song in June 1960 in Chicago during the same sessions that produced ""Back Door Man"" and ""Spoonful"". Backing Howlin' Wolf on vocals are Otis Spann on piano, Hubert Sumlin on guitar, Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on drums. Freddy King has been identified as possibly a second guitarist. In 1961, Chess issued the song as the B-side to ""Back Door Man""; neither song appeared on the record charts. Both songs are included on Howlin' Wolf's popular 1962 compilation album ""Howlin' Wolf"", also called ""The Rockin' Chair Album"", and many subsequent"
"country group, the Shelby Follin Band. Paul Burlison, guitarist for the Johnny Burnette Trio, had been performing on KWEM since 1949 and played with Howlin' Wolf. Johnny Cash's debut radio performance broadcast when he arrived in Memphis was at KWEM. He had his own weekly show with bandmembers Luther Perkins, and Marshall Grant. Ike Turner recorded Howlin' Wolf in the KWEM studios in 1951. Scotty Moore and Bill Black both made an appearance on KWEM in 1954. Johnny Cash recorded a demo of a song he wrote, ""Rock n Roll Ruby"" in the KWEM studios. The song was recorded by"
"such as drum machines. During their 2012 tour, Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters performed ""44 Blues"", which was ""most inspired by the Howlin' Wolf version"". Forty-Four ""Forty-Four"" or ""44 Blues"" is a blues standard whose origins have been traced back to early 1920s Louisiana. However, it was Roosevelt Sykes, who provided the lyrics and first recorded it in 1929, that helped popularize the song. ""Forty-Four,"" through numerous adaptations and recordings, remains in the blues lexicon eighty years later. ""The Forty-Fours,"" as its earlier form was sometimes referred to, was a piano-driven ""barrelhouse honky-tonk blues"" that was performed as"
"popular in the early '60s when Columbia Records released a collection of called ""King of the Delta Blues Singers."" Bluesmen like Clapton and Keith Richards viewed the release as something of a blues bible, considered by some to be the ""King of the Delta Blues Singers"" The Rolling Stones recorded ""Love in Vain"" on their 1969 album, ""Let It Bleed"", and ""Stop Breakin' Down"" on their ""Exile on Main St."" (1972) album. While Robert Johnson's professional recording career can be measured in months, his musical legacy has survived more than 70 years. Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, two prominent Chicago"
"1950s and early 1960s a British blues scene was developing recreating the sounds of American R&B and later particularly the sounds of bluesmen Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters. Initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, it reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s, when it developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar and made international stars of several proponents of the genre including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Cream, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin (who morphed out of The Yardbirds). A number of these moved"
"re-released as single-disc compilations. The Real Folk Blues The Real Folk Blues is a series of blues albums released between 1965 and 1967 by Chess Records, later reissued MCA Records. Each album in the series highlighted the music of one major Chess artist, including John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Sonny Boy Williamson II. The series, overseen by Marshall Chess, was a reaction to the increasing audience for the blues following the British Invasion. Companion discs, titled More Real Folk Blues, were released for many of the artists. Hooker's companion disc was not released until 1991. Beginning in"
"Smokestack Lightning ""Smokestack Lightning"" (also ""Smoke Stack Lightning"" or ""Smokestack Lightnin'"") is a blues song recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1956. It became one of his most popular and influential songs. It is based on earlier blues songs, and numerous artists later interpreted it. Wolf had performed ""Smokestack Lightning"" in one form or another at least by the early 1930s, when he was performing with Charley Patton in small Delta communities. The song, called ""a hypnotic one-chord drone piece"", draws on earlier blues, such as Tommy Johnson's ""Big Road Blues"" (1928, Victor 21279), the Mississippi Sheiks' ""Stop and Listen Blues"""
"later blues artists, among them Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, and Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf. Jimmie Rodgers was Wolf's childhood idol. Wolf tried to emulate Rodgers's yodel, but found that his efforts sounded more like a growl or a howl. ""I couldn't do no yodelin',"" Barry Gifford quoted him as saying in ""Rolling Stone"", ""so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine."" Rodgers' influence can also be heard in artists including Tommy Johnson, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Mississippi John Hurt, whose ""Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me"" is based on Rodgers' hit ""Waiting"
"legal action by Howlin' Wolf's publisher, his name was added to the credits for ""The Lemon Song"". In 1991, ""Killing Floor"" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the ""Classics of Blues Recordings"" category. The panel identified it as ""one of Wolf’s most recognizable songs. It has long been a staple among many blues bands and ranks as one of Wolf’s most often-covered songs, by both blues and rock acts."" In addition to the Hendrix and Led Zeppelin adaptations, the Electric Flag, a blues-rock group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, recorded the song for their 1968 album"
"""Billboard"" 200 album chart. It also appears on several Cooke compilation albums, including """", which was released in 2003. Chess Records Chicago artists, including Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, influenced the Rolling Stones, with the band taking their name from a Muddy Waters tune and playing from a repertoire of blues songs at the beginning of their career. In 1962, before they had recorded as a group, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards, attended the first American Folk Blues Festival, whose performers included Howlin' Wolf. Willie Dixon, another Festival player, later recalled ""When the Rolling Stones came to Chess"
"felt that he could revive the career of bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf by recording two albums of experimental, psychedelic blues with members of Rotary Connection as the backing band for the singers, producing the albums ""Electric Mud"" (1968) and ""The Howlin' Wolf Album"" (1969). Chess hoped the new albums would sell well among fans of psychedelic rock bands influenced by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. In place of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's regular musicians were Gene Barge, Pete Cosey, Roland Faulkner, Morris Jennings, Louis Satterfield, Charles Stepney and Phil Upchurch. Cosey, Upchurch and Jennings joked about calling"
"be more often in the Chicago blues style and bear Howlin' Wolf's influence. In 1968 ""Forty-Four"" was brought into the blues-rock age by Johnny Winter on his ""The Progressive Blues Experiment"" album. Winter's version was played at a faster tempo and had a more spare sound (trio of guitar, bass, and drums) dominated by Winter's guitar. Little Feat recorded ""Forty-Four Blues"" (coupled with another Howlin' Wolf song listed as ""How Many More Years,"" but actually ""No Place To Go"") on their 1971 debut album ""Little Feat"". Little Feat's version, with piano and harmonica, was closer to Howlin' Wolf's, but it"