His Best

Tracklist

• 1
  Moanin' at Midnight
  2:56
  2.0 ★
• 2
  How Many More Years
  2:43
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Evil
  2:55
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Forty-Four
  2:49
  1.0 ★
• 5
  Smokestack Lightnin'
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 6
  I Asked for Water
  2:52
  1.0 ★
• 7
  Who's Been Talkin'
  2:24
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Sitting on Top of the World
  2:34
  1.0 ★
• 9
  Howlin' for My Darling
  2:33
• 10
  Wang Dang Doodle
  2:25
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Back Door Man
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Spoonful
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Shake for Me
  2:18
  1.0 ★
• 14
  The Red Rooster
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 15
  I Ain't Superstitious
  2:56
  3.5 ★
• 16
  Goin' Down Slow
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
  3:07
  1.0 ★
• 18
  Hidden Charms
  2:23
  1.0 ★
• 19
  Built for Comfort
  2:39
  1.0 ★
• 20
  Killing Floor
  2:49
  2.0 ★

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Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Howlin’ Wolf 1952-1953

Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Howlin’ Wolf 1952-1953 2008

Electric Blues

Electric Blues 2000

His Best, Volume 2

His Best, Volume 2 1999

The Gold Collection

The Gold Collection 1997

Release credits

• Abb Locke
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Abraham “Little Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [9]
• Alfred Elkins
  double bass [8]
• Andrew McMahon
  bass [20]
• Andrew Palmer
  electric bass guitar [20]
• Andy McKaie
  compiler, producer
• Arnold Rogers
  tenor saxophone [20]
• Buddy Guy
  bass guitar [18-19], guitar [17], guitar family [20]
• Donald Hankins
  baritone saxophone [17-20], bass saxophone [18, 20]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [3-8]
• Erick Labson
  mastering
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [10-12]
• Freddie King
  guitar [10]
• Henry Gray
  piano [15-16]
• Hosea Lee Kennard
  piano [5-9]
• Howlin’ Wolf
  guitar [14-15], harmonica [1-11, 15-16, 18-20], lead vocals [2-18, 20], vocal [1, 3, 10, 15, 18-20]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [3-5, 7-20], guitar family [20]
• Ike Turner
  piano [2]
• J.T. Brown
  tenor saxophone [17-19]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [15-16]
• Jody Williams
  guitar [3-4, 8]
• Lafayette Leake
  piano [17-20]
• Little Johnny Jones
  piano [13-14]
• Mike Fink
  design/illustration
• Otis Spann
  piano [3-4, 10-12]
• Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [6]
• S.P. Leary
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Sam Lay
  drums (drum set) [13-20]
• Vartan
  art direction
• Willie Dixon
  double bass [3-5, 10-16, 20], spoken vocals [16]
• Willie Johnson
  guitar [1-2, 5-7]
• Willie Steele
  drums (drum set) [1-2]
• [unknown]
  electric bass guitar [14]
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Issues

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  His Best

  CD (Remastered)
  8 April 1997
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  His Best

  CD
  1997