The Complete Recordings 1951–1969

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Moaning at Midnight
  2:56
• 2
  How Many More Years
  2:42
• 3
  The Wolf Is at Your Door
  3:01
• 4
  Howlin’ Wolf Boogie
  2:39
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 15
  Neighbors
  2:47
• 16
  I’m the Wolf
  2:53
• 17
  Rockin’ Daddy
  3:04
• 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
• 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
  5.0 ★
• 6
  You Can’t Be Beat
  3:08
• 7
  I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
  2:50
• 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
• 12
  Bluebird
  3:33
• 13
  My Life
  3:03
• 14
  You Ought to Know
  3:20
• 15
  Who’s Been Talking
  2:24
• 16
  Tell Me
  2:58
• 17
  Somebody in My Home
  2:26
• 18
  Nature
  2:57
• 19
  Walk to Camp Hall
  2:51
• 20
  Poor Boy
  2:35
• 21
  My Baby Told Me
  2:42
• 22
  Sittin’ on Top of the World
  2:33
• 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
• 3
  I’m Leaving You
  2:58
• 4
  Can’t Put Me Out
  3:00
• 5
  Change My Way
  3:34
• 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
• 12
  Back Door Man
  2:50
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Spoonful
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Little Baby
  2:46
• 15
  Down in the Bottom
  2:35
• 16
  Shake for Me
  2:16
• 17
  The Red Rooster
  2:27
  5.0 ★
• 18
  You’ll Be Mine
  2:29
• 19
  Just Like I Treat You
  2:58
• 20
  I Ain’t Superstitious
  2:55
  5.0 ★
• 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
  5.0 ★
• 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
• 4
  300 lbs of Joy
  3:06
• 5
  Joy to My Soul
  2:59
• 6
  Built for Comfort
  2:39
• 7
  Love Me Darlin’
  2:55
• 8
  Killing Floor
  2:51
• 9
  My Country Sugar Mama
  2:37
• 10
  Louise
  2:45
• 11
  I Walked from Dallas
  3:16
• 12
  Tell Me What I've Done
  2:50
• 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
• 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
• 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 [4.24, 5.1, 5.7-8]
• Abraham “Little Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [7-8]
• Adolph "Billy" Duncan
  tenor saxophone [7.2, 4.17, 5.2]
• 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) [4.1, 4.4-7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 7.2, 5.2, 3.15-21], 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 [5.18-21, 6.16-18, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6]
• Hosea Lee Kennard
  piano [7.2, 4.5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 4.24, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 3.8, 3.11-12]
• Howlin’ Wolf
  guitar [7.17, 5.17-18, 5.20], harmonica [5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 5.11-12, 5.15, 5.19-21, 5.24, 7.1-2, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18, 3.2-3, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.14-21, 2.5, 6.3, 6.6-14, 6.16-18, 6.21-23, 4.1, 4.4-7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 4.24], lead vocals [7.1-2, 7.17, 4.1, 4.4-7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 4.22, 4.24, 6.3-4, 6.7-14, 6.16-18, 6.21-23, 1.2-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18, 3.2-3, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11-12, 3.14-21, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 5.11-21, 5.24], vocal [1.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8, 3.19, 2.5, 4.10, 4.20, 5.11, 5.20, 5.23]
• Hubert Sumlin
  guitar [4.1, 4.4-6, 4.15-16, 4.22, 4.24, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 5.11-21, 5.23-24, 6.3-4, 6.6-14, 6.16-18, 6.21-23, 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 [5.23-24, 6.3-4, 6.6]
• 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, 3.14-21, 5.11-13]
• Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers
  guitar [4.7, 4.10, 4.17, 7.2]
• S.P. Leary
  drums (drum set) [5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.7-8, 4.24]
• Sam Lay
  drums (drum set) [5.14-21, 6.3-4, 6.6-14, 6.16-18]
• Walter "Tang" Smith
  trombone [10]
• Willie Dixon
  bass [23], double bass [3.14-21, 4.1, 4.4-6, 4.10, 4.24, 6.7-10, 5.1, 5.3, 5.11-21, 7.1], spoken vocals [21]
• Willie Johnson
  guitar [3.2-3, 3.5, 2.5, 4.5, 4.7, 4.10, 4.15-17, 7.2, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.16, 1.18]
• Willie Steele
  drums (drum set) [2.5, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18]
• [unknown]
  bass [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.16, 1.18, 2.5], electric bass guitar [17]
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Issues

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  The Complete Recordings 1951–1969

  7x CD
  17 June 1993