Name: The Real Folk Blues
Brand: Howlin' Wolf

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DOL1502H

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-09-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Lasgo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0889397515027

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Howlin' Wolf

Genre GB

Blues / Gospel

Label GB

In the mid-'60s, Chess Records released a great series of compilations of '40s and '50s singles by some of its best blues artists, all of them called <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-real-folk-blues-mw0000200053">The Real Folk Blues</a>. The <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/howlin-wolf-mn0000276085">Howlin' Wolf</a> entry is possibly the best of the batch, and one of the best introductions to this mercurial electric bluesman. Opening with the savage "Killing Floor," the album doesn't let up in intensity, and it happily focuses on <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wolf-mn0000276085">Wolf</a>'s less-anthologized sides, which gives the album a freshness a lot of blues compilations lack. From the sly "Built for Comfort" and "Three Hundred Pounds of Fun" to the apocalyptic "Natchez Burning," every track is pure Chicago blues at its finest. The album's only flaws are its skimpy 32-minute running length and the inexplicable omission of perhaps <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/wolf-mn0000276085">Wolf</a>'s greatest single, the amazing "How Many More Years." 

The Real Folk Blues

Music GB