LP - Limited Edition 180g Blue Vinyl with four bonus tracks.
'Moanin' in the Moonlight' was Howlin' Wolf's first collection of sides for the Chess label, packed with great tunes and untouchable performances. One of the all- time cornerstones of the genre, Moanin' in the Moonlight (1959) features several of his early hits ('How Many More Years', 'Moanin' at Midnight', 'Smokestack Lightnin', 'Forty Four', 'Evil', and 'I Asked for Water [She Gave Me Gasoline]'), a potent collection to say the very least!
Born Chester Burnett (1910-1976), and named after President Chester Alan Arthur, Howlin' Wolf had blues credentials so authentic they seem parodic. As a teenager in the Mississippi Delta, he pestered Charley Patton (Mississippi's seminal blues singer) for lessons, and took on Patton's grainy voice and powerful, elemental slide guitar style. In the '30s and '40s, he became one of the Delta's many wandering entertainers, using the nom de guerre (Howlin' Wolf) he derived from a childhood nickname.
Tracklist:
A1. Moanin' At Midnight
A2. How Many More Years
A3. Smokestack Lightnin'
A4. Baby, How Long
A5. No Place To Go
A6. All Night Boogie
A7. The Red Rooster (aka 'Little Red Rooster)*
A8. Spoonful*
B1. Evil (is goin' on)
B2. I'm Leavin' You
B3. Moanin' For My Baby
B4. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
B5. Forty-Four
B6. Somebody In My Home
B7. So Glad*
B8. Back Door Man*
* = Bonus Tracks