Howlin' Wolf - Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs 1951-62 / 3CD set

Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, was one of the most important and influential figures in Chicago Blues through the 1950s, and along with Muddy Waters helped to establish the electric blues style that laid the foundations for rock music in subsequent decades. With his imposing physical presence and loud, almost fearsome voice, he was a powerful and impressive performer, who wrote and popularised songs which have become classic standards of the genre, like "Spoonful", "Smokestack Lightning", "Killing Floor" and "Red Rooster", which became fixtures in the repertoire of bands like The Rolling Stones, who very much championed his cause and widened his reputation in the latter years of his career. This collection brings together both sides of all the singles he released through the RPM and Chess labels during the first hugely important decade of his career, along with bonus tracks comprising recordings made at sessions during this period which were not released as singles at the time. It's a great-value 80-track 3-CD set, which showcases one of the major personalities of the blues.

    - 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 -
    1 Come to Me Baby
    2 Don't Mess with My Baby
    3 Smokestack Lightning
    4 You Can't Be Beat
    5 I Asked for Water
    6 So Glad
    7 Goin' Back Home
    8 My Life
    9 Somebody in My Home
    10 Nature
    11 Poor Boy
    12 Sittin' on Top of the World
    13 I Didn't Know
    14 Moaning for My Baby
    15 I'm Leaving You
    16 Change My Way
    17 Howlin' Blues
    18 I Better Go Now
    19 I've Been Abused
    20 Mister Airplane Man
    21 You Gonna Wreck My Life
    22 Natchez Burning
    23 Who's Been Talking
    24 Tell Me
    25 Spoonful
    26 Howlin' for My Baby
    27 Wang Dang Doodle
    - Disc 3 -
    1 Back Door Man
    2 Little Baby
    3 Down in the Bottom
    4 Shake for Me
    5 Red Rooster
    6 You'll Be Mine
    7 Goin' Down Slow
    8 Just Like I Treat You
    9 I Ain't Superstitious
    10 Mama's Baby
    11 Do the Do
    12 Keep What You Got
    13 California Blues
    14 California Boogie
    15 My Troubles and Me
    16 Worried About My Baby
    17 Brown Skin Woman
    18 House Rockin' Boogie
    19 Driving This Highway
    20 Sun Is Rising
    21 Stealing My Clothes
    22 I'm the Wolf
    23 Highway My Friend
    24 Hold Your Money
    25 Stay Here Till My Baby Comes Back
    26 Crazy About You Baby
    27 Streamline Woman