Recent searches
Search options
Administered by:
#HowlinWolf
Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 19
How Many More Times
A collaborative Ted Tocks with looking back at ‘Led Zeppelin I' with special attention to the blues inspired closing track.
“I was a young man, I couldn't resist
Started thinkin' it over, just what I had missed”
#ledzeppelin #howlinwolf #albertking #AlexisKorner #robertplant #jimmypage #johnpauljones #johnbonham #dreadzeppelin #laguns #pattravers #joebonamassa
#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Blues #ElectricBlues #ChicagoBlues
Among the most recognisable blues songs of the 20th century, "Smokestack Lightning" by #HowlinWolf deserves a sound museum all it's own. In it, I'd dedicate an entire room to #ChesterArthurBurnett's iconic #falsetto - as haunting, mysterious, and transcendent as anything my ears have ever heard.
#OnThisDay in 1976, #HowlinWolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], American blues musician (Smokestack Lightnin', Killing Floor), died of complications during kidney surgery at 65. 
#RIP
ON THIS DATE (yesterday), (47 YEARS AGO)
January 10, 1976 - Howlin' Wolf/Chester Arthur Burnett died of complications from kidney surgery, aged 65.
Howlin' Wolf (born Chester Arthur Burnett, June 10, 1910) was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player. Originally from Mississippi, he moved to Chicago in adulthood and became successful, forming a rivalry with fellow bluesman Muddy Waters. With a booming voice and imposing physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists.
Wolf was an bluesman who formulated a wide range of moods and possibilities for his songs. His raw, rasping, fierce voice, combined with his imposing physical presence and wild stage abandon, made him unforgettable. His influence stretched far beyond the realm of the blues, and many songs popularized by him such as "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Back Door Man" and "Spoonful", have become standards of blues and blues rock. He is portrayed by Eamonn Walker in the 2008 motion picture Cadillac Records. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed 1956 Smokestack Lightning, 1960 Spoonful and 1962's The Red Rooster by Howlin' Wolf of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll and his Smokestack Lightning was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
