Moanin' in the Moonlight

Occupation

  • Howlin 'Wolf - vocals, harmonica
  • Willie Johnson - Guitar
  • Jody Williams - Guitar
  • Willie Dixon - Bass
  • Otis Spann - piano
  • Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
  • Willie Steele - drums
  • Earl Phillips - drums
  • Adolph "Billy" Dockins - tenor saxophone with Moanin ' for my baby
  • Lee Cooper - guitar with No Place to Go
  • Fred Below - drums on All Night Boogie
  • Ike Turner - piano with How Many More Years
  • S. P. Leary - drums at I'm Leavin 'You
  • Smokey Smothers - guitar when I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)

Production

Studios

  • May 1951 or August 1951 with Sun Records until March 1959 at Chess Records

Moanin ' in the Moonlight is the first studio album by the American blues musician Howlin ' Wolf, which was released by Chess Records in 1959. Strictly speaking, it is a compilation album, the material collected, which was previously released as a single. Hence is heard on the album an unusually high number of different musicians.

Moanin ' in the Moonlight was Wolf's first long- playing record. To date, his reputation was based on various singles. Not all recordings on the album were produced by the brothers Chess and / or Willie Dixon. Two songs ( Moanin ' at Midnight and How Many More Years ) were still recorded by Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Chess Records bought these shots to share as they can.

The album is considered one of the most important, and best releases of the Chicago blues. The Rolling Stone lists it currently ranks 154 of the 500 best albums of all time. Allmusic.com rated it five out of five stars

Title list

All songs were from Chester Burnett, Howlin 'Wolf aka written. Exceptions are marked. On the Originalablum the authorship of the song Forty -Four Wolf will speak personally, actually dates the piece from the pen of Roosevelt Sykes, who had recorded it as 44 Blues ".

Record label Genre Singing Willie Johnson (guitarist) Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers Smokestack Lightning Evil (Howlin' Wolf song)
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