The Complete Recordings 1951–1969

Compilation by Howlin’ Wolf

Released 17 June 1993

blues chicago blues electric blues

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Moaning at Midnight
2:56
2.0 ★
2
How Many More Years
2:42
2.0 ★
3
The Wolf Is at Your Door
3:01
4
Howlin’ Wolf Boogie
2:39
1.0 ★
5
Getting Old and Gray
2:39
6
Mr. Highway Man
2:49
7
Saddle My Pony
2:34
8
Worried All the Time
3:08
9
Oh Red
2:37
1.0 ★
10
My Last Affair
2:58
11
Baby Ride with Me (Ridin’ in the Moonlight)
2:43
12
California Boogie
3:00
13
Look a Here Baby
2:11
14
Everybody’s in the Mood (All in the Mood)
2:59
15
Colour and Kind
3:12
16
Blue Bird
2:51
17
Sweet Woman (I Got a Woman)
3:29
18
Well That’s Alright
3:03
19
Decoration Day
3:17
20
Dorothy Mae (tk.2)
2:39
21
Come Back Home (tk.3)
2:10
CD 2
1
Smile at Me
2:08
2
California Blues
2:59
1.0 ★
3
My Baby Walked Off
3:02
4
My Troubles and Me
3:19
5
Chocolate Drop
2:40
6
Dorothy Mae (tk.1)
2:45
7
Drinkin’ C.V. Wine
3:08
8
How Many More Years (alt.)
2:51
9
Baby Ride With Me (alt.)
2:58
10
Baby Ride With Me (alt.)
2:38
11
Baby Ride With Me (alt.)
2:37
12
How Many More Years (alt.)
2:32
13
How Many More Years (alt.)
2:30
14
How Many More Years (alt.)
2:46
15
Mr. Highway Man (alt.)
2:29
16
My Last Affair (tk.1)
3:05
17
Come Back Home (tk.1)
2:37
18
Come Back Home (tk.2)
2:35
19
Oh Red (tk.1)
2:46
1.0 ★
20
Oh Red (tk.2)
2:42
CD 3
1
I’ve Got a Woman
2:57
2
Just My Kind
3:03
3
Work for Your Money
2:20
4
I’m Not Joking
2:58
5
Mama Died and Left Me
3:14
6
Highway Be My Friend
2:17
7
Hold to Your Money
2:22
8
Streamline Woman
2:44
9
California Blues
2:20
10
Stay Here ’Till My Baby Comes
2:38
11
Crazy About You Baby
2:22
12
All Night Boogie
2:15
5.0 ★
13
I Love My Baby
2:59
14
No Place to Go
2:55
1.0 ★
15
Neighbors
2:47
16
I’m the Wolf
2:53
1.0 ★
17
Rockin’ Daddy
3:04
1.0 ★
18
Baby How Long
2:55
5.0 ★
19
Evil
2:56
5.0 ★
20
I’ll Be Around
3:15
21
Forty Four
2:48
1.0 ★
CD 4
1
Who Will Be Next
2:36
2
I Have a Little Girl
2:36
3
Come to Me Baby
2:25
4
Don’t Mess with My Baby
2:39
5
Smokestack Lightnin’
3:08
3.0 ★
6
You Can’t Be Beat
3:08
1.0 ★
7
I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
2:50
1.0 ★
8
So Glad
2:10
2.0 ★
9
Break of Day
2:47
10
The Natchez Burning
2:11
11
Going Back Home
2:41
1.0 ★
12
Bluebird
3:33
13
My Life
3:03
1.0 ★
14
You Ought to Know
3:20
15
Who’s Been Talking
2:24
2.0 ★
16
Tell Me
2:58
1.0 ★
17
Somebody in My Home
2:26
1.0 ★
18
Nature
2:57
19
Walk to Camp Hall
2:51
20
Poor Boy
2:35
1.0 ★
21
My Baby Told Me
2:42
22
Sittin’ on Top of the World
2:33
1.0 ★
23
Howlin’ Blues
2:46
24
I Better Go Now
2:43
CD 5
1
I Didn’t Know
2:39
2
Moaning for My Baby
2:49
1.0 ★
3
I’m Leaving You
2:58
1.0 ★
4
Can’t Put Me Out
3:00
5
Change My Way
3:34
1.0 ★
6
Getting Late
3:05
7
I’ve Been Abused
2:38
8
Howlin’ for My Darling
2:33
9
My People’s Gone
2:25
10
Mr. Airplane Man
2:44
11
Wang Dang Doodle
2:25
1.0 ★
12
Back Door Man
2:50
5.0 ★
13
Spoonful
2:45
5.0 ★
14
Little Baby
2:46
1.0 ★
15
Down in the Bottom
2:35
1.0 ★
16
Shake for Me
2:16
1.0 ★
17
The Red Rooster
2:27
3.0 ★
18
You’ll Be Mine
2:29
1.0 ★
19
Just Like I Treat You
2:58
1.0 ★
20
I Ain’t Superstitious
2:55
3.5 ★
21
Goin' Down Slow
4:04
4.0 ★
22
Mama’s Baby
2:07
23
Do the Do
2:14
24
Tail Dragger
3:00
3.0 ★
25
Long Green Stuff
2:34
CD 6
1
Sugar Mama
3:58
2
May I Have a Talk with You
3:28
3
Hidden Charms
2:24
1.0 ★
4
300 lbs of Joy
3:06
1.0 ★
5
Joy to My Soul
2:59
6
Built for Comfort
2:39
1.0 ★
7
Love Me Darlin’
2:55
8
Killing Floor
2:51
2.0 ★
9
My Country Sugar Mama
2:37
1.0 ★
10
Louise
2:45
1.0 ★
11
I Walked from Dallas
3:16
12
Tell Me What I've Done
2:50
1.0 ★
13
Don’t Laugh at Me
3:16
14
Ooh Baby, Hold Me
2:39
15
Poor Wind That Never Change
2:50
16
New Crawlin’ King Snake
2:57
17
My Mind Is Ramblin’
2:53
18
Commit a Crime
3:08
1.0 ★
19
Pop It to Me
2:49
20
I Had a Dream
2:44
21
Dust My Broom
2:57
22
Mary Sue
3:05
23
Hard Luck
3:14
24
Tired of Crying
5:40
CD 7
1
You Gonna Wreck My Life (alt.tk)
2:36
1.0 ★
2
Somebody in My Home (alt.tk)
2:34
3
Nature (tks 1–6)
6:31
4
Nature (alt.tk)
2:57
5
I Didn’t Know
2:24
6
I Better Go Now (tk 1 only)
1:21
7
Moaning for My Baby (tks 3–4)
4:33
8
I’m Leaving You (alt.tk)
2:45
9
I’m Leaving You (tks 7–10)
7:33
10
You Can’t Put Me Out
2:15
11
I’ve Been Abused (tks 5–7)
4:58
12
Howlin’ for My Darling (tks 1–7)
5:35
13
Wolf in the Mood
4:47
14
Mr. Airplane Man (tks 1–2)
6:04
15
Rollin’ and Tumblin’
0:55
16
I’m the Wolf
5:08
17
Ain’t Goin’ Down That Dirt Road
5:52
18
Conversation
8:30

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Release credits

Abb Locke
tenor saxophone [5.1, 5.7-8, 4.24]
Abraham “Little Smokey” Smothers
guitar [7-8]
Adolph "Billy" Duncan
tenor saxophone [4.17, 5.2, 7.2]
Albert Williams
piano [3-4]
Alfred Elkins
double bass [22]
Andrew McMahon
bass [8]
Andrew Palmer
electric bass guitar [7-10]
Arnold Rogers
tenor saxophone [7-10]
Buddy Guy
bass guitar [3, 6], guitar [4, 11-14], guitar family [8]
Cassell Burrows
drums (drum set) [21-23]
Charles Taylor
tenor saxophone [10]
Donald Hankins
baritone saxophone [3-4, 6, 8], bass saxophone [3, 7-10]
Earl Phillips
drums (drum set) [3.15-21, 7.2, 5.2, 4.1, 4.4-7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22], membranophone [3.14, 7.1]
Eddie Shaw
tenor saxophone [11-14, 16-18, 21]
Fred Below
drums (drum set) [5.11-13, 3.8, 3.11-12]
Freddie King
guitar [11]
Henry Gray
piano [6.16-18, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6, 5.18-21]
Hosea Lee Kennard
piano [3.8, 3.11-12, 7.2, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 4.5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 4.24]
Howlin’ Wolf
acoustic guitar [17], guitar [17-18, 20], harmonica [6.3, 6.6-14, 6.16-18, 6.21-23, 7.1-2, 4.1, 4.4-7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 4.24, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18, 2.5, 3.2-3, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.14-21, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 5.11-12, 5.15, 5.19-21, 5.24], lead vocals [5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 5.11-21, 5.24, 4.1, 4.4-7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 4.24, 7.1-2, 7.17, 3.2-3, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.14-21, 1.2-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18, 6.3-4, 6.7-14, 6.16-18, 6.21-23], vocal [5.11, 5.20, 5.23, 1.1, 3.19, 2.5, 4.10, 4.20, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8]
Hubert Sumlin
guitar [6.3-4, 6.6-14, 6.16-18, 6.21-23, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 5.11-21, 5.23-24, 4.1, 4.4-6, 4.15-16, 4.22, 4.24, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.14-21, 7.1], guitar family [8]
Ike Turner
piano [1.2, 2.5]
J.T. Brown
tenor saxophone [6.3-4, 6.6, 5.23-24]
James Cotton
harmonica [10]
Jerome Arnold
double bass [24]
Jimmy Rogers
guitar [14-15, 18-21]
Jody Williams
guitar [5.2, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.18-21, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6, 4.22]
Junior Blackman
drums (drum set) [23-24]
L.C. Hubert
piano [6]
L.D. McGhee
guitar [3, 5]
Lafayette Leake
piano [3-4, 6-10, 22-23]
Lee Cooper
guitar [3.14-17, 7.1]
Lee Eggleston
piano [11-14]
Little Johnny Jones
piano [14-17, 23-24]
Otis Spann
piano [7.1, 5.11-13, 3.14-21]
Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers
guitar [7.2, 4.7, 4.10, 4.17]
S.P. Leary
drums (drum set) [4.24, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.7-8]
Sam Lay
drums (drum set) [6.3-4, 6.6-14, 6.16-18, 5.14-21]
Walter "Tang" Smith
trombone [10]
Willie Dixon
bass [23], double bass [7.1, 4.1, 4.4-6, 4.10, 4.24, 5.1, 5.3, 5.11-21, 3.14-21, 6.7-10], spoken vocals [21]
Willie Johnson
guitar [7.2, 4.5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 2.5, 3.2-3, 3.5, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.16, 1.18]
Willie Steele
drums (drum set) [1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18, 2.5]
[unknown]
bass [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.16, 1.18, 2.5], electric bass guitar [17]

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The Complete Recordings 1951–1969
7x CD
17 June 1993