Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf Chicago blues singer

Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett in arte Howlin’ Wolf (White Station, 10 giugno 1910 – Hines, 10 gennaio 1976) è stato un cantante, chitarrista e armonicista statunitense.
È considerato uno dei massimi esponenti della musica blues. Nel 2004, il magazine Rolling Stone lo piazzò al numero 51 nella sua lista dei 100 migliori artisti di tutti i tempi . Diversamente da molti altri musicisti blues, durante la sua scalata al successo, Wolf ottenne sempre un grosso riscontro commerciale e finanziario.
La sua vita è stata raccontata nel film del 2009 Cadillac Records.

Biografia

Nato a White Station vicino a West Point, nel Mississippi, è stato così chiamato in onore del ventunesimo Presidente degli Stati Uniti, Chester A. Arthur. Soprannominato da ragazzino anche Big foot e Bull Cow per la sua stazza imponente, adottò il nome d'arte con cui è divenuto celebre alla fine degli '20 in omaggio o alle storie sui lupi che era solito raccontargli il nonno o all'omonima canzone del contemporaneo bluesman Funny Papa Smith. Da giovane ascoltava Charlie Patton, che tra l'altro gli insegnò a suonare la chitarra, i Mississippi Sheiks, Tommy Johnson e Jimmie Rodgers, il cui "blue yodel" venne in futuro integrato nello stile dello stesso Wolf. Inoltre Sonny Boy Williamson II, che per un periodo visse assieme a lui e a sua sorella, gli insegnò a suonare l'armonica a bocca.
Negli anni trenta condusse una vita da agricoltore nell'Arkansas, mentre durante il periodo della seconda guerra mondiale servì l'esercito statunitense come addetto alla radio a Seattle. Nel 1948 formò una prima band con i chitarristi Willie Johnson e M. T. Murphy, l'armonicista Junior Parker, il batterista Willie Steeke ed un pianista ricordato solo come "Destruction". Più tardi Wolf iniziò a suonare nella radio KWEM a West Memphis, Arkansas, diventando una celebrità locale.
Le prime registrazioni risalgono al 1951 quando aveva simultaneamente firmato un contratto per la Modern e la Chess Records. Per quest'ultima registrò nell'agosto 1951 How Many More Years e per la Modern collaborò con l'artista Ike Turner. Alla fine la Chess vinse la sua "guerra" per rimanere l'unica etichetta discografica a tenere sotto contratto Wolf, il quale intorno al 1953 si stabilì definitivamente a Chicago, nell'Illinois. Formò una nuova band con il chitarrista Hubert Sumlin che nel corso degli anni rimase l'unico elemento stabile. Si avvicendarono infatti numerosi musicisti, fra i tanti Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy e Otis "Big Smokey" Smother. Durante gli anni cinquanta Wolf scrisse quattro canzoni che si piazzarono nelle classifiche Billboard R&B: How Many More Years, Moanin' at Midnight, Smokestack Lightning e I Asked for Water.
Nel 1962 fece uscire l'importante e influente album Howlin' Wolf, conosciuto anche come il "The Rockin' Chair Album" per via della copertina raffigurante una sedia a dondolo. Il disco conteneva le canzoni "Wang Dang Doodle", "Goin' Down Slow", "Spoonful", and "Little Red Rooster", pezzi che entrarono nel repertorio di tutte quelle band che si ispiravano al Chicago blues. Nel 1964 prese parte all'American Folk Blues Festival che lo portò a viaggiare in Europa mentre l'anno successivo si esibì nello show televisivo Shindig assieme ai Rolling Stones.
Nel 1971 Wolf e Sumlin si recarono a Londra per registrare l'album The Howlin Wolf London Sessions, al quale hanno collaborato anche Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman e Charlie Watts. Pubblicò il suo ultimo album per la Chess, The Back Door Wolf, nel 1973.
Morì il 10 gennaio 1976 al Veteran Administration Hospital ad Hines, nell'Illinois, dopo aver subito numerosi infarti ed essersi ammalato di tumore.
Eric Clapton pagò per la sua lapide.
Nel 1980 venne introdotto nella Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

Discografia principale

Periodo in attività

Album studio

• 1959 - Moanin' In The Moonlight
• 1962 - Howlin' Wolf
• 1966 - Big City Blues
• 1966 - The Real Folk Blues
• 1967 - More Real Folk Blues
• 1967 - The Super Super Blues Band (Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley)
• 1969 - The Howlin' Wolf Album
• 1969 - Evil
• 1971 - Message to the Young
• 1971 - The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
• 1973 - The Back Door Wolf
• 1974 - The London Sessions Revisited
• 1975 - Change My Way

Album live

• 1966 - Live in Cambridge, 1966
• 1972 - Live & Cookin' At Alice's Revisited

Raccolte

• 1972 - Chester Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf
• 1975 - Change My Ways

Periodo postumo

• 1990: Cadillac Daddy - Memphis Recordings 1952
• 1997: His Best

Photo of Howlin' Wolf performing in 1972.

Photographer-Doug Fulton

 Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi. With a booming voice and imposing physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists. The musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies'". Several of his songs, including "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful", have become blues and blues rock standards. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 51 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

Early life

Burnett was born on June 10, 1910, in White Station, Mississippi, near West Point. He was given the name Chester Arthur, after Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. His physique garnered him the nicknames "Big Foot Chester" and "Bull Cow" as a young man: he was 6 feet 3 inches (191 cm) tall and often weighed close to 300 pounds (136 kg). He explained the origin of the name Howlin' Wolf: "I got that from my grandfather", who would tell him stories about wolves in that part of the country and warn him that if he misbehaved the "howling wolves" would get him. The blues historian Paul Oliver wrote that Burnett once claimed to have been given his nickname by his idol Jimmie Rodgers.
Burnett's parents separated when he was only a year old. His mother, Gertrude, threw him out of the house when he was a child for refusing to work on the farm. He then moved in with his uncle, Will Young, who treated him badly. When he was thirteen, he ran away and claimed to have walked 85 miles (137 km) barefoot to join his father, where he finally found a happy home with his father's large family. At the peak of his success, he returned from Chicago to see his mother in Mississippi and was driven to tears when she rebuffed him: she refused to take money offered by him, saying it was from his playing the "devil's music".

Musical career

1930s and 1940s

In 1930, Burnett met Charlie Patton, the most popular bluesman in the Mississippi Delta at the time. He would listen to Patton play nightly from outside a nearby juke joint. There he remembered Patton playing "Pony Blues", "High Water Everywhere", "A Spoonful Blues", and "Banty Rooster Blues". The two became acquainted, and soon Patton was teaching him guitar. Burnett recalled that "the first piece I ever played in my life was ... a tune about hook up my pony and saddle up my black mare"—Patton's "Pony Blues". He also learned about showmanship from Patton: "When he played his guitar, he would turn it over backwards and forwards, and throw it around over his shoulders, between his legs, throw it up in the sky". Burnett would perform the guitar tricks he learned from Patton for the rest of his life. He played with Patton often in small Delta communities.
Burnett was influenced by other popular blues performers of the time, including the Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, Blind Blake, and Tommy Johnson. Two of the earliest songs he mastered were Jefferson's "Match Box Blues" and Leroy Carr's "How Long, How Long Blues". The country singer Jimmie Rodgers was also an influence. Burnett tried to emulate Rodgers's "blue yodel" but found that his efforts sounded more like a growl or a howl: "I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine". His harmonica playing was modeled after that of Sonny Boy Williamson II, who taught him how to play when Burnett moved to Parkin, Arkansas, in 1933.
During the 1930s, Burnett performed in the South as a solo performer and with numerous blues musicians, including Floyd Jones, Johnny Shines, Honeyboy Edwards, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Robert Johnson, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Willie Brown, Son House and Willie Johnson. By the end of the decade, he was a fixture in clubs, with a harmonica and an early electric guitar. On April 9, 1941, he was inducted into the U.S. Army and was stationed at several bases around the country. Finding it difficult to adjust to military life, he was discharged on November 3, 1943. He returned to his family, who had recently moved near West Memphis, Arkansas, and helped with the farming while also performing, as he had done in the 1930s, with Floyd Jones and others. In 1948 he formed a band, which included the guitarists Willie Johnson and Matt "Guitar" Murphy, the harmonica player Junior Parker, a pianist remembered only as "Destruction" and the drummer Willie Steele. Radio station KWEM in West Memphis began broadcasting his live performances, and he occasionally sat in with Williamson on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas.

1950s

In 1951, Sam Phillips recorded several songs by Howlin' Wolf at his Memphis Recording Service. Phillips praised his singing, saying, "God, what it would be worth on film to see the fervour in that man's face when he sang. His eyes would light up, you'd see the veins come out on his neck and, buddy, there was nothing on his mind but that song. He sang with his damn soul." Howlin' Wolf quickly became a local celebrity and began working with a band that included the guitarists Willie Johnson and Pat Hare. His first singles were issued by two different record companies in 1951: "How Many More Years" backed with "Moaning at Midnight", released by Chess Records, and "Riding in the Moonlight" backed with "Moaning at Midnight", released by RPM Records. Later, Leonard Chess was able to secure his contract, and Howlin' Wolf relocated to Chicago in 1952. There he assembled a new band and recruited the Chicagoan Jody Williams from Memphis Slim's band as his first guitarist. Within a year he had persuaded the guitarist Hubert Sumlin to leave Memphis and join him in Chicago; Sumlin's understated solos and surprisingly subtle phrasing perfectly complemented Burnett's huge voice. The lineup of the Howlin' Wolf band changed often over the years. He employed many different guitarists, both on recordings and in live performance, including Willie Johnson, Jody Williams, Lee Cooper, L.D. McGhee, Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, his brother Little Smokey Smothers, Jimmy Rogers, Freddie Robinson, and Buddy Guy, among others. Burnett was able to attract some of the best musicians available because of his policy, unusual among bandleaders, of paying his musicians well and on time, even including unemployment insurance and Social Security contributions. With the exception of a couple of brief absences in the late 1950s, Sumlin remained a member of the band for the rest of Howlin' Wolf's career and is the guitarist most often associated with the Chicago Howlin' Wolf sound.
Howlin' Wolf had a series of hits with songs written by Willie Dixon, who had been hired by the Chess brothers in 1950 as a songwriter, and during that period the competition between Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf was intense. Dixon reported "Every once in a while Wolf would mention the fact that, 'Hey man, you wrote that song for Muddy. How come you won't write me one like that?' But when you'd write for him he wouldn't like it." So, Dixon decided to use reverse psychology on him, by introducing the songs to Wolf as written for Muddy, thus inducing Wolf to accept them.
In the 1950s, Howlin' Wolf had five songs on the Billboard national R&B charts: "Moanin' at Midnight", "How Many More Years", "Who Will Be Next", "Smokestack Lightning", and "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)". His first LP, Moanin' in the Moonlight, was released in 1959. As was standard practice in that era, it was a collection of previously released singles.

1960s and 1970s

In the early 1960s, Howlin' Wolf recorded several songs that became his most famous, despite receiving no radio play: "Wang Dang Doodle", "Back Door Man", "Spoonful", "The Red Rooster" (later known as "Little Red Rooster"), "I Ain't Superstitious", "Goin' Down Slow", and "Killing Floor", many of which were written by Willie Dixon. Several became part of the repertoires of British and American rock groups, who further popularized them. Howlin' Wolf's second compilation album, Howlin' Wolf (often called "the rocking chair album", from its cover illustration), was released in 1962.
During the blues revival in the 1950s and 1960s, black blues musicians found a new audience among white youths, and Howlin' Wolf was among the first to capitalize on it. He toured Europe in 1964 as part of the American Folk Blues Festival, produced by the German promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau. In 1965, he appeared on the popular television program Shindig! at the insistence of the Rolling Stones, whose recording of "Little Red Rooster" had reached number one in the UK in 1964. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Howlin' Wolf recorded albums with others, including The Super Super Blues Band, with Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters; The Howlin' Wolf Album, with psychedelic rock and free-jazz musicians like Gene Barge, Pete Cosey, Roland Faulkner, Morris Jennings, Louis Satterfield, Charles Stepney and Phil Upchurch; and The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, accompanied by the British rock musicians Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and others.
The Howlin' Wolf Album, like rival bluesman Muddy Waters's album Electric Mud, was designed to appeal to the hippie audience. The album had an attention-getting cover: large black letters on a white background proclaiming "This is Howlin' Wolf's new album. He doesn't like it. He didn't like his electric guitar at first either." The album cover may have contributed to its poor sales. Chess co-founder Leonard Chess admitted that the cover was a bad idea, saying, "I guess negativity isn't a good way to sell records. Who wants to hear that a musician doesn't like his own music?"
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, like Muddy Waters's London album, proved more successful with British audiences than American.
Wolf's last album was 1973's The Back Door Wolf. Entirely composed of new material, it was recorded with musicians who regularly backed him on stage, including Hubert Sumlin, Detroit Junior, Chico Chism, Lafayette "Shorty" Gilbert and the bandleader Eddie Shaw. The album is shorter (a little more than 35 minutes) than any other he recorded, as a result of his declining health.

Personal life

Unlike many other blues musicians who left an impoverished childhood to begin a musical career, Burnett was always financially successful. Having already achieved a measure of success in Memphis, he described himself as "the onliest one to drive himself up from the Delta" to Chicago, which he did, in his own car on the Blues Highway and with $4,000 in his pocket, a rare distinction for a black bluesman of the time. Although functionally illiterate into his forties, Burnett eventually returned to school, first to earn a General Educational Development (GED) diploma and later to study accounting and other business courses to help manage his career.
Burnett met his future wife, Lillie, when she attended one of his performances at a Chicago club. She and her family were urban and educated and were not involved in what was considered the unsavory world of blues musicians. Nevertheless, immediately attracted when he saw her in the audience, he pursued her and won her over. According to those who knew them, the couple remained deeply in love until his death. Together they raised Bettye and Barbara, Lillie's daughters from an earlier relationship.
After he married Lillie, who was able to manage his professional finances, Burnett was so financially successful that he was able to offer band members not only a decent salary, but benefits such as health insurance; this enabled him to hire his pick of available musicians and keep his band one of the best around. According to his stepdaughters, he was never financially extravagant (for instance, he drove a Pontiac station wagon rather than a more expensive, flashy car).
Burnett's health began declining in the late 1960s. He had several heart attacks and suffered bruised kidneys in a car accident in 1970. Concerned for his health, the bandleader Eddie Shaw limited him to performing six songs per concert.

Death

In January 1976, Burnett checked into the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois, for kidney surgery. He died of complications from the procedure on January 10, 1976, and was buried in Oakridge Cemetery, outside Chicago, in a plot in Section 18, on the east side of the road. His gravestone has an image of a guitar and harmonica etched into it. He died at the age of 65.

Selected awards and recognition

Grammy Hall of Fame

A Howlin' Wolf recording of "Smokestack Lightning" was selected for a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, an award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and have "qualitative or historical significance".

Howlin' Wolf Grammy Award History
Year	Title	Genre	Label	Year Inducted
1956	"Smokestack Lightning"	Blues (Single)	Chess	1999

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed three songs by Howlin' Wolf in its "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

Year Recorded	Title
1956	"Smokestack Lightning"
1960	"Spoonful"
1961	"The Red Rooster"

The Blues Foundation Awards

Howlin' Wolf: Blues Music Awards
Year	Category	Title	Result
2004	Historical Blues Album of the Year	The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions	Nominated
1995	Reissue Album of the Year	Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog	Nominated
1992	Vintage or Reissue Blues Album—US or Foreign	The Chess Box—Howlin' Wolf	Winner
1990	Vintage/Reissue (Foreign)	Memphis Days	Nominated
1989	Vintage/Reissue Album (US)	Cadillac Daddy	Nominated
1988	Vintage/Reissue Album (Foreign)	Killing Floor: Masterworks Vol. 5	Winner
1987	Vintage/Reissue Album (US)	Moanin' in the Moonlight	Winner
1981	Vintage or Reissue Album (Foreign)	More Real Folk Blues	Nominated

Honors and inductions

On September 17, 1994, the U,S. Postal Service issued a 29-cent commemorative postage stamp depicting Howlin' Wolf.

Howlin' Wolf Inductions
Year	Category	Result	Notes
2003	Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame	Inducted
1991	Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Inducted	Early influences
1980	Blues Hall of Fame	Inducted
2012	Memphis Music Hall of Fame	Inducted	Inaugural class

Howlin' Wolf Foundation

The Howlin' Wolf Foundation, a nonprofit corporation organized under the US tax code, section 501(c)(3), was established by Bettye Kelly to preserve and extend Howlin' Wolf's legacy. The foundation's mission and goals include the preservation of the blues music genre, scholarships to enable students to participate in music programs, and support for blues musicians and blues programs.

Discography

Singles

Year	Titles (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated	US R&B	Album
1951	"How Many More Years" /	4	Moanin' in the Moonlight
	"Moanin' at Midnight"	10
	"Riding in the Moonlight" b/w "Morning at Midnight"		Howling Wolf Sings the Blues
	"Passing By Blues" b/w "Crying at Daybreak" (from Howling Wolf Sings the Blues)		Non-album tracks
1952	"The Wolf Is at Your Door" b/w "Howlin' Wolf Boogie"
	"My Baby Stole Off" b/w "I Want Your Picture"
	"Gettin' Old and Grey" b/w "Mr. Highway Man"
	"Saddle My Pony" b/w "Worried All the Time"
1953	"Oh Red!!" b/w "My Last Affair"
	"All Night Boogie" b/w "I Love My Baby" (from More Real Folk Blues)		Moanin' in the Moonlight
1954	"No Place to Go" b/w "Rockin' Daddy" (from More Real Folk Blues)
	"Baby How Long" b/w "Evil Is Goin' On"
	"I'll Be Around" b/w "Forty Four" (from Moanin' in the Moonlight)		More Real Folk Blues
1955	"Who Will Be Next" b/w "I Have a Little Girl"	14
	"Come to Me Baby" b/w "Don't Mess with My Baby"		Non-album tracks
1956	"Smokestack Lightning" b/w "You Can't Be Beat" (from More Real Folk Blues)	8	Moanin' in the Moonlight
	"I Asked for Water" b/w "So Glad" (non-album track)	8
1957	"Going Back Home" b/w "My Life"		Non-album tracks
	"Somebody in My Home" b/w "Nature" (from The Real Folk Blues)		Moanin' in the Moonlight
1958	"Sitting on Top of the World" b/w "Poor Boy"		The Real Folk Blues
	"I Didn't Know" b/w "Moanin' for My Baby" (from Moanin' in the Moonlight)		Change My Way
	"I'm Leaving You" b/w "Change My Way" (from Change My Way)		Moanin' in the Moonlight
1959	"I Better Go Now" b/w "Howlin' Blues"		Change My Way
	"I've Been Abused" b/w "Mr. Airplane Man"
	"The Natchez Burning" b/w "You Gonna Wreck My Life" (from More Real Folk Blues)		The Real Folk Blues
1960	"Tell Me" b/w "Who's Been Talking"		Howlin' Wolf
	"Spoonful" b/w "Howlin' for My Darling"
1961	"Wang-Dang Doodle" b/w "Back Door Man"
	"Down in the Bottom" b/w "Little Baby"
	"The Red Rooster" b/w "Shake for Me"
1962	"You'll Be Mine" b/w "Goin' Down Slow"
	"I Ain't Superstitious" b/w "Just Like I Treat You"		Change My Way
	"Mama's Baby" b/w "Do the Do" (from Change My Way)		Non-album track
1963	"Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" b/w "Built for Comfort"		The Real Folk Blues
1964	"Hidden Charms" b/w "Tail Dragger" (from The Real Folk Blues)		Change My Way
	"My Country Sugar Mama" b/w "Love Me Darling" (from Change My Way)		The Real Folk Blues
1965	"Louise" b/w "Killing Floor"
	"Tell Me What I've Done" b/w "Ooh Baby"
	"Don't Laugh at Me" b/w "I Walked from Dallas"		Change My Way
1966	"New Crawling King Snake" b/w "My Mind Is Ramblin'"
1967	"Pop It to Me" b/w "I Had a Dream"		Non-album tracks
1969	"Evil" b/w "Tail Dragger"	43	The Howlin' Wolf Album
1970	"Mary Sue" b/w "Hard Luck"		Non-album tracks
1971	"I Smell a Rat" b/w "Just As Long"		Message to the Young
1973	"Coon on the Moon" b/w "The Back Door Wolf"		The Back Door Wolf

Albums

• 1959: Moanin' in the Moonlight
• 1962: Howlin' Wolf Sings the Blues
• 1962: Howlin' Wolf
• 1966: The Real Folk Blues
• 1966: The Super Super Blues Band
• 1967: More Real Folk Blues
• 1969: The Howlin' Wolf Album
• 1969: Evil
• 1971: Message to the Young
• 1971: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
• 1972: Chester Burnett a/k/a/ Howlin' Wolf
• 1972: Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited
• 1973: The Back Door Wolf
• 1974: London Revisited
• 1975: Change My Way
• 1982: Muddy & the Wolf
• 1984: His Greatest Sides, Vol. One
• 1991: Howlin' Wolf – The Chess Box
• 1991: Howlin' Wolf Rides Again
• 1994: Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog: Chess Collectibles, Vol. 2
• 1997: His Best

 

 

 

 

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8

 

 

 

howlin wolf - spoonful - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nuGeF1kak

 

 

Testo

It could be a spoonful of coffee
It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me

Men lie about that spoonful
Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

It could be a spoonful of water
To save you from the desert sand
But one spoon of love1 from my forty-five
Will save you from another man
Men lie about that spoonful
Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

It could be a spoonful of sugar
It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me
Men lie about that spoonful
Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

It could be a spoonful of sugar
It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me

Compositori: Willie Dixon

Testo di Spoonful © BMG Rights Management US, LLC

 

 

 

Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster ( Chess ) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vr-DR5HdKw

 

 

Testo

Well, I got a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
Well, I got a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
Keep everything in the barnyard
Upset in every way

Well, the dogs begin to bark
Hound begin to howl
Well, the dogs begin to bark
Hound begin to howl
Oh, watch out, strange kind people
Little red rooster is on the prowl

Oh, if you see my little red rooster
Please drag him home
Well, if you see my little red rooster
Please drag him home
There no peace in the barnyard
Since the little red rooster been gone

I got a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
Oh, I got a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
Keep everything in the barnyard
Upset in every way

Compositori: Joseph Lee Williams

Testo di The Red Rooster © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Howlin' Wolf - Morning At Midnight (Moanin' At Midnight) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26FQJftlypk

 

 

Testo

Well, somebody knocking on my door
Well, somebody knocking on my door
Well, I'm so worried, don't know where to go

Well, somebody calling me, calling on my telephone
Well, somebody calling me, over my telephone
Well, keep on calling, tell them I'm not at home

Well, don't not worry, Daddy has gone to bed

Compositori: Chester Burnett

Testo di Moanin' at Midnight © BMG Rights Management US, LLC

 

 

 

 

Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVIA1n5ng4Y

 

 

I am, a back door man
I am, a back door man
Well the, men don't know, but the little girls understand

When everybody's tryin' to sleep
I'm somewhere making my, midnight creep
Yes in the morning, when the rooster crow
Something tell me, I got to go

I am, a back door man
I am, a back door man
Well the, men don't know, but little girls understand

They, take me to the doctor, shot full o' holes
Nurse cried, please save the soul
Killed him for murder, first degree
Judge's wife cried, let the man go free

I am, a back door man
I am, a back door man
Well the, men don't know, but little girls understand

Stand out there, cop's wife cried
Don't take him down, rather be dead
Six feets in the ground
When you come home you can eat, pork and beans
I eats mo' chicken, any man seen

I am, a back door man
I am, a back door man

Compositori: Willie Dixon

Testo di Back Door Man © BMG Rights Management US, LLC