#Howlin' Wolf

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American blues singer and musician Howlin' Wolf (1910 - 1976), born Chester Arthur Burnett, circa 1965. (Photo by Don Paulsen Michael Ochs Archives Getty Images)

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It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

Howlin' Wolf, Spoonful

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Ian McLagan, 17, ridin' with Howlin' Wolf. Mac's pre-Faces band the Muleskinners backed Wolf on a U.K. tour circa '63. “When we met him, he put his arms around all five of us, pulled us towards him and said, `My boys.’” Photo from McLagan's thoroughly entertaining memoir "Best of British."

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Howlin'Wolf - Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969⁣.

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Howlin' Wolf, Janis Joplin, Big Brother, 1967

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It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

Howlin' Wolf, Spoonful

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my favourite genre transcendent lines that reference each other, the fact that i'm a huge fan of all of these artists is even better.

my papa raised me on howlin' wolf, mama raised me on zappa, they both got me into weird al. and well, MF DOOM, ratboygenius & the gecs were for me to uncover (⁠＾π＾⁠♪

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Wolf / Waters

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Jimmy Page 2023 Guitar Player Interview

“I Owe It to All of Them”: Jimmy Page Explains How His Love of the Blues Fueled the Fire for One of Rock’s Biggest Bands

You can read the full interview at the link above.

“The blues is scary,” Jimmy Page says. “It’s threatening. It’s saying: ‘I’m coming to get you.’”

“The blues – I mean, it’s just undeniable,” Page says. “It was just an undeniable element of everything that was going on in Led Zeppelin. If there hadn’t been that sort of movement in Chicago, back in the ’50s, and all that sort of riffing, then you wouldn’t have got what came through in various bands later – certainly for me and how it affected me in Led Zeppelin.

“In those days, all the guitarists were learning from records. I was lucky that I had a blues collector called Dave Williams. Through him I got to hear stuff like Elmore James. You weren’t going to hear that on the radio.”

Given his legacy, Page doesn’t owe anything to anyone as a guitarist, but he waves away the notion. “I owe it to all of them,” he explains. “That’s how I learned. My breakthrough was when I understood how to do bottleneck guitar. That’s the point when open tunings first come in for me. Boom! That’s it. And that whole world opened itself up for me. I wasn’t actually trying to play note for note what anyone else had done.”

How did Zeppelin’s treatment of the blues differ from, say, John Mayall’s and Eric Clapton’s three years before? “Well, it’s the atmosphere and it’s the attitude that’s created on something like Muddy Waters’ ‘Standing Around Crying,’” Page says. “It’s like Howlin’ Wolf: When you hear Wolf, he’s not messing about. It’s like, ‘I’m coming at you – and I’m gonna get you!’ And that’s why I love him.

“So let’s put it this way: Whether it was the first album or whether it was ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’ [from Led Zeppelin III] or ‘Tea for One’ [from Presence], whenever Led Zeppelin do a blues, it’s not like anybody else doing the blues.”

Remarkably, Page says he wasn’t Zeppelin’s biggest blues fan. “We all had our roots,” he explains. “Each and every one of us had played the blues in some sort of department or other.

“What I would say is that Robert was a blues aficionado, but he was very into the country blues. He was a damn fine harp player.

“He was used to playing that acoustically, but I was keen to get him playing it through an amp. So then you get things like ‘When the Levee Breaks,’ which is really gonna scare the pants off you with what he does on harmonica.”

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Howlin' Wolf, Don Paulsen

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Howlin' Wolf

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Howlin’ Wolf   † January 10, 1976

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It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

Howlin' Wolf, Spoonful