Howlin' Wolf - Wolf Is at Your Door

Title: Wolf Is at Your Door Artist: Howlin' Wolf Release Date: 10/30/1992 Re-Released On: 2/4/1997 Label: New Rose, Koch Records UPCs: 082333155725, 3347120027041 Genre: Blues Styles: Chicago Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Electric Delta Blues, Electric Memphis Blues, Harmonica Blues, Memphis Blues, Juke Joint Blues, Regional Blues Moods: Cathartic, Greasy, Gritty, Gutsy, Intense, Confrontational, Earthy, Fiery, Ominous, Passionate, Plaintive, Rousing, Rowdy, Sexual, Boisterous, Eerie, Manic, Rambunctious, Raucous, Rollicking, Volatile, Exuberant Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Moanin' at Midnight
2. How Many More Years
3. The Wolf Is at Your Door (Howlin' for My Baby)
4. California Blues
5. California Boogie
6. Look-A-Here Baby
7. Howlin' Wolf Boogie
8. Smile at Me
9. Getting Old and Gray
10. Mr. Highway Man
11. My Baby Walked Off
12. Champagne Velvet Blues (C.V. Wine Blues)
13. My Troubles and Me
14. Chocolate Drop
15. Highway Man
16. Everybody's in the Mood
17. Bluebird
18. Saddle My Pony

Year Type Label Catalog # 1997 CD Koch Records 5 ------ CD New Rose 5091

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Although his tenure with Willie Dixon at Chess Studios is what made him a star, Howlin' Wolf's short-lived association with Ike Turner, Sam Phillips, and Sun Studios in the early '50s produced some of the most powerful and raucous music ever recorded. (Muddy Waters' first electric recordings are downright tame in comparison.) The Wolf Is at Your Door is a sizeable chunk of Howlin' Wolf's Sun sessions -- a diverse slate of music recorded over the span of 11 months. Seven of these songs (including the legendary "Moanin' at Midnight" b/w "How Many More Years") were leased to Chess, while the rest were left unissued until the late '70s. This is about as unrestrained as Wolf ever got in a studio setting, thanks in part to the crude backing he got from guitarist Willie Johnson and drummer Willie Steel. Wolf often stuck to the same themes in his songwriting (he constantly gripes about getting old), but as a singer he could mix it up, at least to the extent that his producers let him. Only in Memphis -- and with Phillips at the helm -- would you be able to record Wolf doing a swinging, Louis Jordan-style rap (on "Look-a-Here Baby") or take after take of boogie-woogie. The material here will always be overshadowed by Wolf's Chicago recordings, but that doesn't make it any less vital. ~ Ken Chang, All Music Guide

Name Credits Albert Williams Piano Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band Piano Howlin' Wolf Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar Ike Turner Piano James Cotton Harmonica John Collis Liner Notes L.C. Hubert Piano Sam Phillips Producer Willie Johnson Guitar Willie Steel Drums