From Howlin’ Wolf’s 1971 live blues performance at Big Duke’s Flamingo in Chicago. Wolf's music never lost its primal quality: some of his best songs, such as ''Smokestack Lightning,'' ''Commit a Crime'' and ''I Asked for Water, but She Gave Me Gasoline,'' are trancelike one-chord vamps reaching back to African-American music's pre-Western roots. ''That's something I got from the old music,'' he said. But this was a deliberate, even stubborn, artistic choice, as much as Wolf tried to commodify h

905K views · 22K reactions | Howling Wolf - live [Colourised] 1964 The amazing Howlin' Wolf (otherwise known as Chester Burnett) recorded on the 19th October 1964 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall as part of the American Folk Blues Festival tour in the UK. What a line up this was with Sugar Pie De Santo, Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Boy Williamson on the same bill!! | Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives" | Facebook

Howlin' Wolf "Smokestack Lightning" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archives). Howlin' Wolf passed 47 years ago today at the age of 65. One of the all time greatest blues artists. A complete original. Visit cadillaczackpresents.com for a list of upcoming weekly LIVE BLUES EVENTS in Southern California featuring the world's greatest living blues artists. | Cadillac Zack Presents The Best Blues In Southern California