Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight - 8022

Moanin' In The Moonlight (Limited Edition Red Vinyl)

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Cat No: 950625

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Format Details: Limited Edition Red Vinyl

Release Date: 26 January 2018

Label: Blues Joint

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436544170411

Genres: Blues

Release Date: 01 May 2018

Label: Waxtime In Color

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436559464314

Genres: Blues

Release Date: 19 May 2023

Label: 20th Century Masterworks

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563184468

Genres: Blues

Release Date: 10 May 2024

Label: Blues Joint

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563185250

Genres: Blues

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Limited edition 180g blue coloured vinyl, original album + 4 bonus tracks. 'Moanin' in the Moonlight'was Howlin' Wolf's first collection of sides for the Chess label, packed with great tunes and untouchable performances.

One of the all-time cornerstones of the genre, Moanin' in the Moonlight(1959) features several of his early hits ('How Many More Years', 'Moanin' at Midnight', 'SmokesÂtack Lightnin', 'Forty Four', 'Evil', and 'I Asked for Water [She Gave Me Gasoline]'), a poÂtent collection to say the very least!

Born Chester Burnett (1910-1976), and named after President Chester Alan Arthur, Howlin' Wolf had blues credentials so authentic they seem parodic. As a teenager in the Mississippi Delta, he pestered Charley Patton (Mississippi's seminal blues singer) for lessons, and took on Patton's grainy voice and powerful, elemental slide guitar style. In the '30s and '40s, he became one of the Delta's many wandering entertainers, using the nom de guerre (Howlin' Wolf) he derived from a childhood nickname.

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180gram VIRGIN VINYL LIMITED EDITION - THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 6 BONUS TRACKS. Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett 1910 - 1976), was the primal force of blues music spun out to its ultimate conclusion. He was an imposing presence, blessed with a thunderous voice and enormous physical strength. Like his friend and rival Muddy Waters, Wolf transformed Mississippi's archaic country blues into the electric urban blues of Chicago, his adopted home.
Presented here is his outstanding debut album for Chess Records, Moanin' in the Moonlight (1959) - one of the all-time cornerstones of the genre. It includes the hit single Smokestack Lightnin', issued by Pye Records in the UK in 1964, where it peaked at number 42 in the singles chart.
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