Genre: Blues
Places I remember: FOPP (Covent Garden)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Wang Dang Doodle
Gear costume: The Red Rooster
Active compensatory factors: This is ferocious and still as potent as when it was recorded back in 1960-1962. Timeless. Peerless.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Wang Dang Doodle
Gear costume: The Red Rooster
Active compensatory factors: This is ferocious and still as potent as when it was recorded back in 1960-1962. Timeless. Peerless.
Chester Burnett (a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf) released 12 singles back in the early sixties and Chess did the world a huge favour by collecting them onto this album.
The first time I heard Wang Dang Doodle I was transfixed. Scared out of my brain and transfixed.
As the musician and critic Cub Koda has 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". Spot on!
Where do they all belong? A blues titan. Every collection needs some Howlin' Wolf.
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