Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Days: Definitive Edition, Vol. 1

Title: Memphis Days: Definitive Edition, Vol. 1 Artist: Howlin' Wolf Release Date: 1989 Re-Released On: 7/27/1996 Label: Bear Family Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 4000127154606, 790051154608 Genre: Blues Styles: Electric Memphis 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: 4 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Oh, Red! [Take 1]
2. My Last Affair [Take 1]
3. Come Back Home [Take 1]
4. California Boogie
5. California Blues
6. Look-A-Here Baby
7. Smile at Me
8. My Baby Walked Off
9. Drinkin' CV Wine (CV Wine Blues)
10. My Troubles and Me
11. Chocolate Drop
12. Mr. Highway Man
13. Bluebird Blues
14. Color and Kind
15. (Everybody's) In the Mood
16. Dorothy Mae [Number 2]
17. I Got a Woman (Sweet Woman)
18. Decoration Day Blues
19. (Well) That's All Right
20. How Many More Years
21. Baby Ride with Me (Ridin' in the Moonlight)

Year Type Label Catalog # 1996 CD Bear Family 15460 1994 CD Bear Family 15460

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These are Howlin' Wolf's earliest and rarest sides recorded at the Sun studios, as raw and explosive as blues records come. Much of this was issued on various European albums during the '70s, always transferred off of muffled-sounding copy tapes. These 21 tracks (all but two of them off the master tapes) feature the amp-on-11 guitar work of Willie Johnson and the cave-man drumming of Willie Steele; they're loose and somewhat chaotic, with Wolf sounding utterly demonic. The real bonus on this volume is the first-time inclusion of both sides of the only known acetate of Wolf's first session at Sam Phillips' 706 Union Avenue studio from 1951. With only Johnson and Steele in support (no bass, no piano), these early versions of "How Many More Years" and "Baby Ride with Me (Riding in the Moonlight)" are Wolf at his most primitive. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide

Name Credits Albert Williams Piano Charles Taylor Sax (Tenor) Colin Escott Reissue Producer, Liner Notes Dave Sax Liner Notes Ernest C. Withers Photography Howlin' Wolf Harmonica, Guitar, Vocals Ike Turner Piano James Cotton Harmonica Jorg Siemer Mastering L.C. Hubert Piano Sam Phillips Producer Walter "Tang" Smith Trombone William "Cat" Johnson Piano William Johnson Piano Willie Johnson Guitar, Drums Willie Steel Drums