HOWLIN' WOLF

Albums recorded by Howlin' Wolf, including release dates and current UK CD availability.

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Moanin' In The Moonlight [aka Evil]

--/58

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Howlin' Wolf [aka The Rocking Chair Album]

01/62

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Sings The Blues [aka Big City Blues]

--/62

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Live In Europe 1964

--/64

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The Real Folk Blues [compilation]

--/65

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More Real Folk Blues [compilation]

01/67

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Super Super Blues Band

05/68

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The Howlin' Wolf Album

01/69

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Going Back Home [compilation 1948-58]

05/70

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We Three Kings [compilation]

06/70

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Message To The Young

03/71

12

The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions

--/71

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Chester Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf [compilation]

03/72

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Live & Cookin' at Alice's Revisited

07/72

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The Back Door Wolf

11/73

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London Revisited

02/74

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Change My Way [compilation]

--/75

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Moanin' In The Moonlight
Moanin' At Midnight
How Many More Years
Smokestack Lightnin'
Baby How Long
No Place To Go
All Night Boogie

Evil
I'm Leavin' You
Moanin' For My Baby
I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
Forty-Four
Somebody In My Home

Evil
Forty Four
Evil
Smokestack Lightning
Somebody In My Home
How Many More Years
I'm Leavin' You

All Night Long
Moanin' For My Baby
Baby How Long
No Place To Go
I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
Moanin' At Midnight

Reissued in 1969 as Evil

Moanin'...


Evil


CD Reissue

Fred Below
Lee Cooper
Willie Dixon
Adolph "Billy" Dockins
Howlin' Wolf
Willie Johnson
Hosea Lee Kennard
SP Leary
LD McGhee
Earl Phillips
Otis "Smokey" Smothers
Otis Spann
Willie Steele
Hubert Sumlin
Ike Turner
Jody Williams

Producer:

Drums (Track 6)
Guitar (Track 5)
Bass (Tracks 3-5,7,8,11)
Tenor Saxophone (Track 9)
Vocals, Harmonica
Guitar (Tracks 1-3,10,11)
Piano (Tracks 3,6,8-10,12)
Drums (Track 8)
Guitar (Track 8)
Drums (Tracks 3-5,7,9-12)
Guitar (Track 10)

Piano (Tracks 4,5,7,11)
Drums (Tracks 1,2)
Guitar (Tracks 3-9,11,12)
Piano (Track 2)
Guitar (Tracks 4,6,7,9,11)

Leonard Chess, Phil Chess

Track numbers refer to
Moanin' In The Moonlight

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Shake For Me
The Red Rooster
You'll Be Mine
Who's Been Talking?
Wang Dang Doodle
Little Baby

Spoonful
Goin' Down Slow
Down In The Bottom
Back Door Man
Howlin' For My Baby
Tell Me

Howlin' Wolf


Rocking Chair


CD Reissue

Fred Below
Junior Blackman
JT Brown
Willie Dixon
Henry Gray
Buddy Guy
Donald Hankins
Howlin' Wolf
Willie Johnson
Little Johnny Jones
Hosea Lee Kennard
Sam Lay
Lafayette Leake
SP Leary
Sammy Lewis
Andrew Palmer
Earl Phillips
Freddy Robinson
Arnold Rogers
Jimmy Rogers
Otis Smokey Smothers
Otis Spann
Hubert Sumlin
Jody Williams

Producer:

Drums
Drums
Tenor Saxophone
Bass
Piano
Bass
Baritone Saxophone
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Guitar
Piano
Piano
Drums
Piano
Drums
Drums
Bass
Drums
Guitar
Tenor Saxophone
Guitar
Guitar

Piano
Guitar
Guitar

Ralph Bass

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Riding In The Moonlight
Worried About My Baby
Crying At Daylight
Brown Skin Woman
Twisting And Turning

House Rockin Boogie
Keep What You Got
Dog Me Around
Morning At Midnight
Backslide Boogie

Sings The Blues

Howlin' Wolf

Producer:

Vocals, Guitar

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Shake It For Me
Love Me
Dust My Broom
I Didn't Mean To Hurt Your Feelings
Rockin' The Blues
All My Life
Going Down Slow
Howlin' For My Darlin'
Forty Four

Recorded live in Bremen, West Germany on
6 November 1964 during the American Folk Blues
package tour

Willie Dixon
Howlin' Wolf
Sam Lay
Hubert Sumlin
Sunnyland Slim

Producer:

Upright Bass
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Drums
Guitar
Piano

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Killing Floor
Louise
Poor Boy
Sittin' On Top Of The World
Nature
My Country Sugar Mama [aka Sugar Mama]

Tail Dragger
Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
Natchez Burnin'
Built For Comfort
Ooh Baby Hold Me
Tell Me What I've Done

Howlin' Wolf
Willie Johnson
Willie Steel
Ike Turner

Producer:

Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Guitar
Drums
Piano

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Just My Kind
I've Got A Woman
Work For Your Money
I'll Be Around
You Can't Be Beat
You Gonna Wreck My Life

I Love My Baby
Neighbors
I'm The Wolf
Rocking Daddy
Who Will Be Next?
I Have A Little Girl

Howlin' Wolf

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Long Distance Call
Medley: Ooh Baby/Wrecking My Love Life
Sweet Little Angel

Spoonful
Diddley Daddy
The Red Rooster
Goin' Down Slow

Bo Diddley
Howlin' Wolf
Muddy Waters

Producer:

Guitar, Vocals
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Guitar, Vocals

Willie Dixon

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Spoonful
Tail Dragger
Smokestack Lightning
Moanin' At Midnight
Built For Comfort

The Red Rooster
Evil
Down In The Bottom
Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
Back Door Man

New versions of previously recorded songs

Gene Barge
Pete Cosey
Roland Faulkner
Howlin' Wolf
Morris Jennings
Donald Myrick
Louis Satterfield
Hubert Sumlin
Phil Upchurch

Producer:

Saxophone (Tracks 6,9)
Guitar
Guitar
Vocals, Harmonica
Drums
Flute (Track 3)
Bass
Guitar
Guitar (Tracks 7,9,10)

Gene Barge, Marshall Chess,
Charles Stepney

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Saddle My Pony
Worried All The Time
Howlin' Wolf Boogie
The Wolf Is At Your Door
My Last Affair
Oh Red
Mr Highway Man
Gettin' Old And Grey

Come To Me Baby
Don't Mess With Me Baby
So Glad
My Life
Going Back Home
I Didn't Know
Howlin' Blues
I Better Go Now

Fred Below
James Cotton
Willie Dixon
Adolph Dockins
Henry Gray
Howlin' Wolf
Willie Johnson
Hosea Lee Kennard
SP Leary
Abe Locke
Earl Phillips
Otis "Smokey" Smothers
Willie Steel
Hubert Sumlin
Ike Turner
Jody Williams

Producer:

Drums (Tracks 7,8)
Harmonica (Track 1)
Bass (Tracks 9,10,16)
Tenor Saxophone (Track 13)
Piano (Tracks 9,10)
Vocals, Guitar
Guitar (Tracks 1-6,11-13)
Piano (Tracks 7,8,11-16)
Drums (Tracks 15,16)
Tenor Saxophone (Track 16)
Drums (Tracks 9-14)
Guitar (Tracks 11-13)

Drums (Tracks 1-6)
Guitar (Tracks 7-10,14-16)
Piano (Tracks 1-6)
Guitar (Tracks 7-10,14)

The Firm

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She's Into Something
Take The Bitter With The Sweet
Read Way Back
I'm Your Doctor
Tiger In Your Tank
Meanest Woman
Lonesome Room Blues

Five Long Years
Twenty Four Hours
I Don't Play
Just You Fool
Change Your Way
I've Been Abused
Mister Airplane Man

Tracks 1-9: by Muddy Waters
Tracks 10,11: by Little Walter
Tracks 12-14: by Howlin' Wolf

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If I Were A Bird
I Smell A Rat
Miss James
Message To The Young

She's Looking Good
Just As Long
Romance Without Finance
Turn Me On

Bob Crowder
Howlin' Wolf
John Jeremiah
Bryce Roberson
Tyrone Smith
John Stocklin
Sonny Thompson

Producer:

Drums
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Organ
Guitar
Drums
Guitar
Piano

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Rockin' Daddy
I Ain't Superstitious
Sittin' On Top Of The World
Worried About My Baby
What A Woman!
Poor Boy

Built For Comfort
Who's Been Talking?
The Red Rooster [rehearsal]
The Red Rooster
Do The Do
Highway 49
Wang-Dang-Doodle

Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London on:
Track 2: 2 May 1970
Tracks 1,6,13: 4 May 1970
Tracks 3,11,12: 6 May 1970
Tracks 4,5,7-10: 7 May 1970

Jeff Carp
Eric Clapton
Howlin' Wolf
Dennis Lansing
Lafayette Leake
Joe Miller
Jordan Sandke
John Simon
Ringo Starr
Ian Stewart
Hubert Sumlin
Phil Upchurch
Klaus Voormann
Charlie Watts


Steve Winwood

Bill Wyman



Producer:

Harmonica (Tracks 3,5,6,12,13)
Guitar
Vocals, Harmonica (Tracks 4,8)
Tenor Saxophone (Tracks 2,7)
Piano (Tracks 3,4,9,10)
Baritone Saxophone (Tracks 2,7)
Trumpet (Tracks 2,7)
Piano (Track 8)
Drums (Track 2)
Piano (Tracks 1,7,11,13)
Guitar
Bass (Track 1)
Bass (Track 2)
Drums (Tracks 1,3-13),
Percussion (Track 8),
Congas (Track 8)
Piano (Tracks 2,6,12),
Organ (Tracks 5,8)
Bass (Tracks 3-13),
Cowbell (Tracks 2,11),
Shaker (Track 8)

Norman Dayron

 
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LP One
Smokestack Lightnin'
Down In The Bottom
No Place To Go
Moanin' At Midnight
Forty-Four
My Country Sugar Mama

Spoonful
The Red Rooster
Moanin' For My Baby
I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
How Many More Years
Louise

 
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LP Two
Killing Floor
Evil (Is Goin' On)
Back Door Man
Sitting On Top Of The World
Tail Dragger
Tell Me

Wang-Dang Doodle
Who's Been Talkin'
Built For Comfort
Ooh Baby Hold Me
Baby How Long

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When I Laid Down I Was Troubled
I Don't Know
Mean Mistreater
I Had A Dream

Call Me The Wolf
Don't Laugh At Me
Just Passing By
Sitting On Top Of The World

Recorded live at Alice's Revisited, Chicago,
Illinois, USA on 26 January 1972

Fred Below
Howlin' Wolf
SP Leary
Dave Myers
Eddie Shaw
Sunnyland Slim
Hubert Sumlin
LV Williams

Producer:

Drums
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Drums
Bass
Tenor Saxophone
Piano
Guitar
Guitar

Ralph Bass

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Moving
Coon On The Moon
Speak Now Woman
Trying To Forget You
Stop Using Me

Leave Here Walking
The Back Door Wolf
You Turn Slick On Me
Watergate Blues
Can't Stay Here

Detroit Junior
James Green
Willie Harris
Howlin' Wolf
SP Leary
Andrew McMahon
Eddie Shaw
Hubert Sumlin

Producer:

Piano, Harpsichord
Bass
Guitar
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Drums
Bass
Tenor Saxophone
Guitar

Ralph Bass

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Hard Days
Highway 41
I Almost Lost My Mind
Lovin' Man

Going Down Slow
The Killing Floor
I Want To Have A Word With You

Tracks 1-4 are by Muddy Waters
Tracks 5-7 are by Howlin' Wolf

Carey Bell
Garnett Brown
Eric Clapton
George Fortune
Rory Gallagher
Rick Grech
Rosetta Hightower
Howlin' Wolf
Sammy Lawhorn
Herb Lovelle
Mitch Mitchell
Joe Newman
Seldon Powell
Ernie Royal
Ringo Starr
Hubert Sumlin
Klaus Voormann
Steve Winwood
Muddy Waters
Billy C Wirtz
Bill Wyman

Producer:

Harmonica
Trombone
Guitar (Tracks 5-7)
Keyboards
Guitar
Bass
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Vocals, Guitar (Track 6)
Guitar
Drums
Drums
Trumpet
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet
Drums (Tracks 5,7)
Guitar (Track 7)
Bass (Tracks 5,7)
Keyboards
Guitar, Vocals
Organ, Piano
Bass (Track 6)

Esmond Edwards, Ian Green

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Mr Airplane Man
Love Me Darlin'
Change My Way
I Walked From Dallas
I Better Go Now
New Crawlin' King Snake
Just Like I Treat You

I've Been Abused
Don't Laugh At Me
I Didn't Know
I Ain't Superstitious
Howlin' Blues
My Mind Is Ramblin'
Do The Do
Hidden Charms

Junior Blackman
JT Brown
Willie Dixon
Adolph Dockins
Henry Gray
Buddy Guy
Donald Hankins
Howlin' Wolf
Little Johnny Jones
Hosea Lee Kennard
Sam Lay
Lafayette Leake
SP Leary
Abe Locke
LD McGhee
Andrew Palmer
Earl Phillips
Arnold Rogers
Jimmy Rogers
Otis Smokey Smothers
Hubert Sumlin
Jody Williams

Producer:

Drums
Tenor Saxophone
Bass
Tenor Saxophone
Piano
Bass
Saxophone
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Piano
Piano
Drums
Piano
Drums
Tenor Saxophone
Guitar
Bass
Guitar, Drums
Tenor Saxophone
Guitar
Bass

Guitar
Guitar

Leonard Chess, Phil Chess,
Willie Dixon