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A Great Overview of The Wolf's Blues!,
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This review is from: The Howlin' Wolf Story (DVD)
Chester Burnett aka Howlin" Wolf was one of the giants of Blues (Literally!). His music set the standard for the whole Blues genre and led the way vis-a-vis the British Invasion for the 1960s Blues Revival that led to Hendrix, Heavy Metal, Jazz-Fusion, Funk, Rap and so on. Wolf's music was interesting and more varied than any other Bluesman at the time (witness "Evil", "Spoonful", "Back Doot Man" and "Little Red Rooster", all are different, unlike most of Muddy's tunes (except ones like "Walking In The Park"). The Wolf was an innovator and a good writer too. Willie Dixon actually wrote tunes for Wolf like he would have written for himself! Interesting! I had the pleasure of seeing Wolf live in New York in 1967 at the famous Cafe au Go Go's Blues Bag. I will never forget it. The band started playing "Smokestack Lightning" and Wolf came out with the spotlight BEHIND him looking like a mountain! He was the standard for all blues singers-rock not gospel like B.B. or soul, like Albert King. He was a great entertainer too. Well this DVD is fabulous and historical. It has a lot of extras and a good lenght (90 min). I give it fourstars because as a 40 year Blues fan I would have expected more film clips of his performances and if you couldn't find anymore this DVD should have included bits from his American Folk Blues appearances. In Scorsese's "Blues"(Road To Memphis) he has a curious version of Wolf doing "Evil" which is not in this DVD! The reason why I gave this fours stars is that there is not any new or complete concert footage or new tunes. The tunes shown in Black and White have all been released on the Vestapol DVD: "Devil Got My Woman" along with rare footage of the great Skip James (get this is it actually better than his DVD!) I was expecting some newly released footage of Wolf in color from some of his many appearances in the late 1960s and early seventies. Let's face it, like with the great Albert King-footage of these great Blues Innovators needs to be released in concert format- Like Albert's Ann Arbor Blues Festival set and Wolf's many Blues festival appearances like the Chicago Blues Festivals of the late 1960s.
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Beyond Great,
By "rbf1227" (NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Howlin' Wolf Story (DVD)
If you are a Howlin' Wolf fan or a Blues fan or a documentary film fan, this DVD gets 5 stars on all 3 levels. It is just beautifully done and I don't think I could find one negative thing to write about it. Too bad it is not easily available for all to see it. The closest music documentary I have seen in quality is Buena Vista Social Club.
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the great howlin' wolf,
By Ronnie Cowlishaw Sr. (AUBURN WASHINGTON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Howlin' Wolf Story (DVD)
i just got this dvd what a treat! it blew me away it is way better than i expected by far, i hope there is more footage out there of the wolf. this is a must have for any true lover of good old american roots music, you wont be sorry!living in utah the (closed society )i may be the only one here who knows who he is.what a shame!
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