tracks

Moanin' At Midnight
How Many More Years
Riding In The Moonlight
Crying At Daybreak
Passing By Blues
My Baby Stole Off
I Want Your Picture
The Wolf Is At Your Door
Howlin' Wolf Boogie
Getting Old And Gray
Mr. Highway Man
Saddle My Pony
Worried All The Time
Oh! Red
My Last Affair
All Night Boogie
No Place To Go [You Gonna Wreck My Life]
Rockin' Daddy
Baby How Long
Evil Is Going On

notes

Mastered by Clear Sound and Vision.
Album has the tracks sequenced according to dates of recording.
Track 4 [Crying At Daybreak] is an early version of the latter Howlin' Wolf hit "Smokestack Lightning".
Tracks 1 to 16 recorded 1951-1953 in Memphis, Ten.
Tracks 17 to 20 recorded 1954 in Chicago Ill.
Tracks 1 to 7 originally appeared on RPM Records, all others were first issued on Chess.

credits

Bass – Willie Dixon (tracks: 17 to 20)
Drums – Earl Phillips (tracks: 19, 20), Fred Below (tracks: 17, 18), Willie Steele (tracks: 5 to 16)
Guitar – Hubert Sumlin (tracks: 19, 20), Jody Williams (tracks: 19, 20), Willie Johnson (4) (tracks: 5 to 16)
Harmonica – James Cotton (tracks: 12)
Liner Notes – Neil Slaven
Piano – Albert Williams (2) (tracks: 8), Ike Turner (tracks: 5, 6, 7), Otis Spann (tracks: 17 to 20)
Tenor Saxophone – Charles Taylor (tracks: 14)
Trombone – Walter "Tang" Smith (tracks: 14)
Vocals, Harmonica – Howlin' Wolf

companies

Distributed By – SPV GmbH
Pressed By – Sonopress – 51909242
Mastered At – Clear Sound And Vision

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