Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960

Compilation by Howlin’ Wolf

Released 24 October 2011

blues chicago blues

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Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Moanin' at Midnight
2:53
2.0 ★
2
How Many More Years (alternate)
2:46
3
How Many More Years
2:40
2.0 ★
4
The Wolf Is at Your Door (Howlin' for My Baby)
2:56
5
California Boogie
2:57
6
Smile at Me
2:04
7
Howlin' Wolf Boogie
2:37
1.0 ★
8
California Blues #1
2:55
9
Look-A-Here Baby
2:08
10
Worried All the Time
3:06
11
Gettin' Old and Grey
2:36
12
Mr. Highway Man
2:46
13
Everybody's in the Mood
2:57
14
Color and Kind
3:09
15
Bluebird
2:48
16
Saddle My Pony
2:32
17
Dorothy Mae (alternate take)
2:42
18
Dorothy Mae
2:35
19
Sweet Woman (a.k.a. I Got a Woman)
3:23
20
(Well) That's All Right
3:00
21
Decoration Day
3:14
22
Oh! Red
2:35
1.0 ★
23
My Last Affair
2:56
24
I've Got a Woman
2:52
25
Just My Kind
2:57
26
Work for Your Money
2:16
Digital Media 2
1
I'm Not Joking
2:55
2
Mama Died and Left Me
3:11
3
All Night Boogie (All Night long)
2:11
5.0 ★
4
I Love My Baby
2:55
5
Highway My Friend
2:15
6
Hold Your Money
2:19
7
Streamline Woman
2:43
8
California Blues #2
2:20
9
Stay Here Til My Baby Comes Back
2:37
10
Crazy About You Baby
2:19
11
No Place to Go (You Gonna Wreck My Life)
2:53
1.0 ★
12
You Gonna Wreck My Life (alternate take)
2:34
1.0 ★
13
Neighbors
2:43
14
I'm the Wolf
2:50
1.0 ★
15
Rockin' Daddy
3:01
1.0 ★
16
Baby How Long
2:54
5.0 ★
17
Evil (Is Going on)
2:53
5.0 ★
18
I'll Be Around
3:11
19
Forty Four
2:48
1.0 ★
20
Who Will Be Next
2:32
21
I Have a Little Girl
2:33
22
Come to Me Baby
2:25
23
Don't Mess With My Baby
2:37
24
Smokestack Lightnin'
3:06
3.0 ★
25
You Can't Be Beat
3:09
1.0 ★
26
I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
2:49
1.0 ★
27
So Glad
2:07
2.0 ★
Digital Media 3
1
Break of Day
2:44
2
The Natchez Burnin'
2:09
3
Going Back Home
2:39
1.0 ★
4
Bluebird
3:31
5
My Life
3:01
1.0 ★
6
You Ought to Know
3:20
7
Who's Been Talking?
2:21
2.0 ★
8
Tell Me
2:56
1.0 ★
9
Somebody in My Home (alternate take)
2:34
10
Somebody in My Home
2:25
1.0 ★
11
Nature (Takes 1/4/6)
6:35
12
Nature (alternate take)
2:54
13
Nature
2:45
1.0 ★
14
Walk to Camp Hall
2:49
15
Poor Boy (alternate take)
2:26
16
Poor Boy
2:33
1.0 ★
17
My Baby Told Me
2:46
18
Sitting on Top of the World
2:32
1.0 ★
19
I Didn't Know
2:26
20
I Better Go Now (Howlin' Blues) [alternate]
3:11
21
Howlin' Blues
2:44
22
I Better Go Now (Multiple Takes)
4:23
23
I Didn't Know
2:34
24
Moaning for My Baby
2:47
1.0 ★
25
Moaning for My Baby (Midnight Blues) [Takes 3 & 4]
4:49
Digital Media 4
1
I'm Leaving You (alternate take)
2:43
2
I'm Leaving You (Takes 7-10)
7:39
3
I'm Leaving You
2:57
1.0 ★
4
Can't Put Me Out (alternate 1)
1:59
5
Can't Put Me Out (alternate 2)
2:57
6
(You) Can't Put Me Out
3:09
7
Change My Way
3:31
1.0 ★
8
Getting Late
3:04
9
I've Been Abused (Takes 4-12)
5:01
10
I've Been Abused
2:15
1.0 ★
11
Howlin' for My Baby (Takes 1-7)
5:39
12
Howlin' for My Darling (Or Baby)
2:30
13
Wolf in the Mood (instrumental)
5:48
14
My People's Gone
2:22
15
Mr. Airplane Man (Takes 1 & 2)
6:07
16
Mr. Airplane Man
2:43
17
Wang Dang Doodle
2:22
1.0 ★
18
Back Door Man
2:48
5.0 ★
19
Spoonful
2:42
5.0 ★

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Release credits

Abb Locke
tenor saxophone [10, 12]
Abraham “Little Smokey” Smothers
guitar [10, 12]
Adolph "Billy" Duncan
tenor saxophone [9-10, 24]
Albert Williams
piano [4, 7]
Alfred Elkins
double bass [18]
Charles Taylor
tenor saxophone [23]
Earl Phillips
drums (drum set) [3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 2.13-20, 2.23-26], membranophone [11-12]
Fred Below
drums (drum set) [4.17-19, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10]
Freddie King
guitar [17]
Henry Gray
piano [20, 23, 25]
Hosea Lee Kennard
piano [3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.24, 2.26]
Howlin’ Wolf
harmonica [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.20, 1.23, 1.25-26, 2.2-3, 2.7, 2.10-20, 2.23-26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12, 4.17-18], lead vocals [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.20, 1.23, 1.25-26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.12, 4.17-19, 2.2-3, 2.7, 2.10-20, 2.23-26], vocal [3.2, 3.16, 4.10, 4.17, 1.1, 2.17]
Hubert Sumlin
guitar [2.3, 2.7, 2.10-20, 2.23-25, 3.7-8, 3.18, 3.24, 4.3, 4.7, 4.10, 4.12, 4.17-19]
Ike Turner
piano [3]
James Cotton
harmonica [23]
Jody Williams
guitar [2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.16-20, 2.23, 2.25, 3.18, 3.24]
L.C. Hubert
piano [12]
L.D. McGhee
guitar [3, 7]
Lee Cooper
guitar [11-15]
Otis Spann
piano [2.11-19, 4.17-19]
Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers
guitar [3.2, 3.9-10, 2.26]
S.P. Leary
drums (drum set) [3, 7, 10, 12]
Walter "Tang" Smith
trombone [23]
Willie Dixon
double bass [3.2, 2.11-20, 2.23-25, 4.3, 4.17-19]
Willie Johnson
guitar [2.2, 2.24, 2.26, 3.2, 3.7-10, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15-16, 1.20, 1.25-26]
Willie Steele
drums (drum set) [1, 3-4, 7, 12, 15-16, 20, 23]
[unknown]
bass [4, 7, 15-16, 20]

Issues

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Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960
4x CD
24 October 2011
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Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960
4x CD (Limited Edition)
2011
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Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960
4x Digital Media (iTunes Version)
31 January 2012