This, Wolf's last hurrah, is his final studio album. Cut with his regular working band, the Wolf Gang, everything here works well, despite Detroit Junior's annoying use of...
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Howlin' Wolf was certainly a master of the blues, and MCA Special Products' Bluesmaster, thankfully, does offer some evidence proving why that's an acknowledged fact, not...
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With the exception of a vinyl compilation issued in the early 1980s (His Greatest Sides, Volume 1), there's never really ever been a single-disc Howlin' Wolf best-of package...
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Not a bad collection of songs by any means, but most, if not all, can be found on more complete collections. Not a bad starter for someone looking for an inexpensive...
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If you're expecting these to be Wolf's celebrated Chess recordings, guess again. Despite the hyperbole in the title, what this 16-tracker offers instead is a package divided...
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Not one of the better Howlin' Wolf collections on the market, this live album is about as weak as any found in his vast catalogue. Mostly gone is the menacing growl and...
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A real hodgepodge of a budget set made up of tracks from The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions and horrible transfers of actual Chess originals like "I Ain't Superstitious,"...
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This double-disc set features 42 rare and unissued performances, effectively cleaning out the Chess vaults of all but alternate takes of alternate takes. But these are no...
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You can't possibly fault the material aboard this 12-song collection of Howlin' Wolf's Memphis recordings cut for Sam Phillips. The title track features some truly...
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While both Bear Family sets deal with a largely unissued wealth of material, this collection is devoted in the main to all the Memphis recordings from 1951 and 1952 that saw...
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Producer Sam Phillips recorded several sides with bluesman Howlin' Wolf in Memphis before Wolf moved to Chicago in the early '50s under contract to Chess (which had already...
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A compact-disc reissue of Wolf's 1972 live album with the addition of two stellar bonus cuts. The first one, "Big House," first showed up on a hodgepodge Wolf bootleg album...
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These are Wolf's earliest and rarest sides recorded at the Sun studios, as raw and explosive as blues records come. Much of this was issued on various European albums during...
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The second volume in this series collects up all the known Memphis recordings that were either issued or originally offered to Chess. As such, it stands as a marvelous...
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This two-fer would be the perfect Wolf collection, and would get a perfect 7 rating, were it not for the fact that the first album--the so-called "rocking chair album,"...
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Howlin' Wolf's first and second Chess albums are essential listening of the highest order. They were compiled -- as were all early blues albums -- from various single...
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This companion volume to the Real Folk Blues album was issued in 1967 (after the Wolf had appeared on network television with the Rolling Stones, alluded to in the original...
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This was originally released by Chess in 1966 to capitalize on the then-current folk music boom. The music, however -- a collection of Wolf singles from 1956 to 1966 -- is...
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Eric Clapton, a couple of Rolling Stones and sundry other Brits drag Wolf into Supersessionland. The result? Poorly-cooked remakes of tunes that were just fine, thank you,...
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In terms of song selection, Howlin' at the Sun is an exact replica of the 21 tracks featured on Bear Family's Memphis Days Vol. 1, although the liner notes are, predictably,...
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This three-CD box set currently rates as the best -- and most digestible -- overview of Wolf's career. Disc one starts with the Memphis sides that eventually brought him to...
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Although his tenure with Willie Dixon at Chess Studios is what made him a star, Howlin' Wolf's short-lived association with Ike Turner, Sam Phillips, and Sun Studios in the...
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Originally compiled and issued in 1975 as a vinyl album in the original Chess Blues Masters Series, this 19-tracker is some of Wolf's best middle-period (1959-1963)...
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Collectables could probably do a better job of selling this nine-song CD if they'd indicate somewhere on the outside that it's a live performance from Germany in 1964. That...
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Where Chess' two-volume Muddy Waters anthology His Best was divided according to chronological guidelines, the Howlin' Wolf series of the same name follows a different...
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The Real Folk Blues series on Chess wasn't really folk, but titled that way, perhaps to gain the attention of young white listeners who had started to get turned on to the...
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While this 12-track collection of Howlin' Wolf's prime Chess material is classic electric blues music, it's a distinctly less worthy deal than the 20-track His Best. The...
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