The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (CD)

CD reissue. With a booming voice and imposing physical presence, Chester Burnett AKA. Howlin' Wolf is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists. The London Sessions was one of the series of recordings produced by Marshall Chess, nephew of Phil Chess, who, with his brother Leonard, started Chess Records. Four sessions recorded in May 1970 with Eric Clapton and Hubert Sumlin on guitars, Steve Winwood on piano, the Rolling Stones' rhythm section (Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts) - and a quasi-Beatles' rhythm section chipping in (!) (Klaus Voormann with an uncredited Ringo Starr) playing the blues and the 19 year old Jeffrey Carp, (who died shortly after this session) were among those appearing on the album. The London Sessions is essential blues.

Track List

1. Rockin' Daddy
2. I Ain't Superstitious
3. Sittin' on Top of the World
4. Worried About My Baby
5. What a Woman!
6. Poor Boy
7. Built for Comfort
8. Who's Been Talking?
9. The Red Rooster (False Start and Dialog)
10. The Red Rooster
11. Do the Do
12. Highway 49
13. Wang Dang Doodle
14. Goin' Down Slow
15. Killing Floor
16. I Want to Have a Word with You
17. Worried About My Baby
18. The Red Rooster
19. What a Woman! (A/K/A Commit a Crime)
20. Who's Been Talking
21. Worried About My Baby
22. I Ain't Superstitious
23. Highway 49
24. Do the Do
25. Poor Boy
26. I Ain't Superstitious
27. What a Woman (A/K/A Commit a Crime)
28. Rockin' Daddy