From Howlin’ Wolf’s 1971 live blues performance at Big Duke’s Flamingo in Chicago. Wolf's music never lost its primal quality: some of his best songs, such as ''Smokestack Lightning,'' ''Commit a Crime'' and ''I Asked for Water, but She Gave Me Gasoline,'' are trancelike one-chord vamps reaching back to African-American music's pre-Western roots. ''That's something I got from the old music,'' he said. But this was a deliberate, even stubborn, artistic choice, as much as Wolf tried to commodify h

5.6K views · 283 reactions | Will Wilde here with a break down of Howlin' Wolf's harmonica playing (his vibrato in particular) on the track 'How Many More Years' #harmonicaplayer #harmonica #harmonika #harmonicalessons #bluesharmonica #bluesharp #bluesmusic #harmonicablues #howlinwolf | Blues Harmonica Player | Facebook

266K views · 6.4K reactions | Howlin’ Wolf’s - “Highway 49”. 1970. Vocals/Harmonica: Howlin’ Wolf Guitar: Hubert Sumlin Bass: Randy Joe Fullerton Drums: S.P. Leary Keys: Sunnyland Slim. | Blues Compartido | Facebook