harper
26 posts
Apr 21, 2010
5:15 PM
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Can anyone recommend a Howlin' Wolf CD that is heavy on the harmonica?
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conjob
50 posts
Apr 21, 2010
5:42 PM
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theres a compilation called the genuine article that i have enjoyed, i think its a best of from everything he did with chess records
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conjob
Last Edited by on Apr 21, 2010 5:42 PM
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Blues13
28 posts
Apr 21, 2010
5:50 PM
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I have Howlin' the Blues it's a 2 dics album and there's lots of harp on it. I listen to it every day in my mp3 player it's a really great album.
Martin
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htownfess
58 posts
Apr 21, 2010
6:15 PM
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You know, I like his last studio album, The Back Door Wolf, because it illustrates his harp approach well. Wolf used harp mainly in direct relation to songwriting, something like the also-underrated Slim Harpo did, and sometimes Jimmy Reed; in Wolf's case, he uses the harp to state a repeated melodic element of the song as well as to solo or intro, a motif that often relates to the vocal melody and/or a fundamental riff to the song--what I think of as a Delta hook. The band may or may not double it a la the perennial Muddy Waters triplet pattern. Wolf didn't tend to put that on Willie Dixon songs, just ones he or his bandmembers wrote. Hubert Sumlin handled the main soloing chores, so Wolf doesn't solo extensively on his records, but the way he uses harp motifs as a structural element in songs is worth looking at. Sumlin's guitar work is similarly hard to characterize when he's not soloing, doesn't clearly break down into rhythm vs. fill. I don't know that I articulated it very well, but it seems a relatively unique harp approach with roots in earlier Delta blues and you hear it in its matured form on his last record.
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Old Dog
35 posts
Apr 22, 2010
4:57 AM
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I really enjoy "Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' In The Moonlight". 2 albums on 1 CD.
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