Search - Howlin Wolf :: 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection

Much, much too brief

Docendo Discimus | Vita scholae | 09/03/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This, like almost all the Millennium collections, is a mediocre collection which manages to include several of the artist's best songs, but leaves out about twice as many.Come on...a CD has room for eighty minutes of music, and these twelve songs don't even take up half of that space.Sure, "Smokestack Lightnin'" is here, as is "Evil", "I Ain't Superstitious", "The Red Rooster" and the magnificent "Killing Floor". But why include Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle", which Howlin' Wolf himself hated, and the silly "Built For Comfort", and leave out classics like "How Many More Years", "Forty-Four" and "Hidden Charms"?Get MCA/Chess' "His Best" instead. That one manages to pack twenty excellently selected songs onto one disc (and there's even a "His Best vol. II" once your appetite is whetted!)."