The Absolutely Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Smokestack Lightnin’
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Moaning at Midnight
  2:57
• 3
  How Many More Years?
  2:43
• 4
  Riding in the Moonlight
  2:37
• 5
  Passing By Blues
  2:44
• 6
  My Baby Stole Off
  2:59
• 7
  I Want Your Picture
  2:51
• 8
  The Wolf Is at Your Back Door
  3:00
• 9
  Howlin Wolf Boogie
  2:39
• 10
  Getting Old and Grey
  2:38
• 11
  Mr.Highway Man
  2:49
• 12
  Saddle My Pony
  2:34
• 13
  Worried All the Time
  3:08
• 14
  Oh Red
  2:45
• 15
  My Last Affair
  2:58
• 16
  All Night Boogie (All Night Long)
  2:15
• 17
  I Love My Baby
  2:59
• 18
  No Place to Go
  2:54
• 19
  Rockin’ Daddy
  3:03
• 20
  I’m the Wolf
  2:53
• CD 2
• 1
  Spoonful
  2:44
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Baby How Long
  2:54
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Evil
  2:55
• 4
  I’ll Be Around
  3:13
• 5
  Forty Four
  2:50
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Who Will Be Next?
  2:33
• 7
  I Have a Little Girl
  2:36
• 8
  Come to Me Baby
  2:22
• 9
  Don’t Mess With My Baby
  2:39
• 10
  You Can’t Be Beat
  3:06
• 11
  I Asked for Water
  2:52
• 12
  So Glad
  2:06
• 13
  Going Back Home
  2:43
• 14
  My Life
  3:02
• 15
  Somebody in My Home
  2:28
• 16
  Nature
  2:45
• 17
  Poor Boy
  2:38
• 18
  Sitting on Top of the World
  2:36
• 19
  I Didn’t Know
  2:24
• 20
  Moaning for My Baby
  2:47
• CD 3
• 1
  The Red Rooster
  2:28
• 2
  Wang Dang Doodle
  2:25
• 3
  I’m Leaving You
  3:00
• 4
  Change My Way
  3:28
• 5
  Howlin’ Blues
  2:44
• 6
  I Better Go Now
  2:42
• 7
  I’ve Been Abused
  2:14
• 8
  The Natchez Burnin’
  2:09
• 9
  Who’s Been Talking
  2:20
  2.0 ★
• 10
  Tell Me
  2:55
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Howlin’ for My Baby
  2:32
• 12
  Back Door Man
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Little Baby
  2:43
• 14
  Down in the Bottom
  2:08
  1.0 ★
• 15
  Shake For Me
  2:13
• 16
  You’ll Be Mine
  2:19
• 17
  Goin’ Down Slow
  3:22
• 18
  Just Like I Treat You
  2:47
• 19
  I Ain’t Superstitious
  2:52
• 20
  Do the Do
  2:10

More by Howlin’ Wolf

Smokestack Lightnin' ... The Best Of Howlin’ Wolf

Smokestack Lightnin' ... The Best Of Howlin’ Wolf 2016

The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Howlin’ Wolf

The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Howlin’ Wolf 2012

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 [6]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [2.2, 2.5, 1.1, 3.9-10]
• Fred Below
  drums (drum set) [1.18, 2.1, 3.12]
• Hosea Lee Kennard
  piano [1.1, 3.6, 3.9-10]
• Howlin’ Wolf
  harmonica [1.1, 1.18, 2.2, 2.5, 3.6, 3.9-10, 3.12], lead vocals [1.1, 1.18, 3.6, 3.9-10, 3.12, 3.14, 2.1-2, 2.5]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [3.6, 3.9-10, 3.12, 3.14, 1.1, 2.1-2, 2.5]
• Jimmy Rogers
  guitar [14]
• Jody Williams
  guitar [2, 5]
• Lee Cooper
  guitar [18]
• Little Johnny Jones
  piano [14]
• Otis Spann
  piano [2.1-2, 2.5, 3.12, 1.18]
• S.P. Leary
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Sam Lay
  membranophone [14]
• Willie Dixon
  bass [18], double bass [2.1-2, 2.5, 1.1, 3.6, 3.12, 3.14]
• Willie Johnson
  guitar [3.9-10, 1.1]

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  The Absolutely Essential Collection

  3x CD
  26 January 2015