Classics 1952-1953 - Howlin' Wolf

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...My taste in music is Catholic. In hat my taste in music is wide and varied. Which is why you will find me writing reviews on a wide range of musical styles and genres. One of my passions is the Blues. This review is a review of Comin' Home to the Blues, volume II. This really is a classic CD if its type. It sounds like a Whose Who in Blues Hall of Fame. There are tracks my Howlin' Wolf, Bo Didley, sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Elmore James. Little Walter, Otis Rush, Etta James (who has one of the sexiest female voices ever. In any musical genre!) Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Rogers, Koko Taylor (who has the other sexiest female voices ever. In any musical genre!) Washboard Sam and Lowell Fulson. The CD begins with Howlin' Wolf's Red Rooster. This is laid back blues, filled with everything that the blues... Read review

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Advantages: Graet album from agreat artist
Disadvantages: Not to everyones taste

...and excellent vocal, a classic. Listen to the guitar solo – one of his best. Track fourteen, Standin’ round crying, has great harmonica backing and is slow, with good vocal from Clapton, and ably backed by the rest of the band. Doesn’t excite me, but give it a listen anyway, it might be your cup of tea. Back to acoustic for track fifteen with Driftin’ which has a minimal backing and could be an outtake from Unplugged. Good vocal. Track sixteen is the last on this album, with searing guitar and back to the Howlin’ wolf vocal from Eric, which spoils what would be an otherwise excellent song. A little long at 6.06mins, but gives room for the guitar solo. All in all a damn good album, if you liked unplugged, this is sort of the electric version, one of his best albums. Go buy it. Look at Amazon.co.uk and you can hear samples of the first five songs... Read review

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...This is a good and cheap selection of some of the greatest blues musicians ever. The collection opens predictably with a muddy waters track (rollin’ stone) although probably not his best and then there appears the great elmore james performance on slide guitar in ‘dust my broom’ – a fantastically modern style of blues for the time. The j l hooker song is not ‘boom, boom’ thank god and the howlin’ wolf track ‘smokestack lightning’ features as track 9, this is a great song and I think once a budweiser advert song. There is a beautifully rough recording of memphis slim’s ‘guess I’m a fool’ towards the end which is for me the pick of the tracks. This is a solid album, nothing too new, but touches all the bases and is successful.... Read review

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