Howlin' Wolf (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976) | Don's Tunes #Blues Legends #shorts

Remembering the blues legend Howlin' Wolf (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976)
The February 21, 1966, issue of Newsweek profiled Wolf, saying, “He’s a giant of a man, a powerful 6-foot 3-inch, 275-pounder, whose short, thick, black hair streaked with white is the only sign that he is 55 years old. When his hands grip a microphone, cup his ‘harp’ … or strong-arm his guitar, the instruments simply disappear from view. When he sings he almost swallows the microphone in his efforts to be heard above the noise of his band—electric guitars, tenor sax and drums, all amplified and played at a frenzied pitch and ear-splitting dynamic level. In his hoarse, rasping voice that sounds like a runaway bucket of nails, he sings ‘them mean old blues,’ songs about faithless women, loneliness, tomcatting men or nameless trouble ‘knockin’ on my door.’ ” In the article Wolf was quoted as saying, “It’s just low-down, gut-bucket blues, the old common music, pleasing to the ear. I just rhyme up a good back-rail sound. This here jingle-jangle stuff ain’t no good when you got problems, and a lot of people got problems. The blues ain’t never gonna change.” Wolf also bemoaned having to keep up with the modern sounds. “I’m on the modern style, all bands are on the modern style now with all the electric stuff,” he said. “Not as good as the old guitar. That one with the hole in it, it got a good, sweet sound. But if I walk in a place with it, they’d say, ‘Why don’t somebody buy that poor boy a guitar?’ In this here modern world you got to keep up with modern people.”
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