Lycanthropy

This is a very useful cd featuring 24 tracks by Howlin' Wolf, basically taken from two old vinyl albums, one just called Howlin' Wolf the other called Moanin' At Midnight. The compilation just seems to be called Two on One. It includes Wolf's most famous material such as Smokestack Lightenin', Spoonful, How Many More Years, Evil, The Red Rooster, Moanin' For My Baby. Real name Chester Burnett, Wolf was the big rival to Muddy Waters in late fities Chicago blues. A unique gravel voice, Wolf was a huge imposing individual who ran his band with a rod of iron. There are many stories about a violent past and Wolf did nothing to discourage these; a reputation was useful in the Chicago of those days. His material has been much covered but nothing compares to the raw power of the originals. This compilation does the man justice and conjures up a dark mysterious and slightly forbidding world.