Thursday music corner: Howlin' Wolf (aka Chester Arthur Burnett, 1910-76) was a Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist who attained considerable fame as a progenitor of electric Chicago blues, and who was revered by the British blues exponents like Cream, the Rolling Stones and Steve Winwood. Howlin' Wolf released 14 studio albums during his lifetime, and scored four US R&B chart top ten singles: How Many More Years and Moanin' At Midnight (both 1951) and Smokestack Lightning and I Asked For Water (both 1956).
The Willie Dixon-penned Spoonful was a 1960 Howlin' Wolf single on the Chess label. It features on the Rolling Stone '500 Greatest Songs of All Time' list, and has been inducted into the Blues Foundation's 'Hall of Fame'.
Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful (1960)
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