Howlin Wolf- Ebbets Field, 1973 (Bootleg)(blues)(mp3@320)[rogerc

Howlin Wolf Ebbets Field, 1973
Recorded live at Ebbets Field, Denver, Colorado. August 23, 1973
Released: 1994
Label: Boootleg
Format: Mp3@ 320


HowlinΓΓé¼Γäó Wolf (born Chester Arthur Burnett) was one of the great blues singers and guitarists, together with the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters, who helped build Chess Records in Chicago. By the time he played Ebbets Field in Denver in 1973, he was already a legend.
Long admired by the Rolling Stones, the 1962 HowlinΓΓé¼Γäó Wolf album was a must for anyone into Chicago blues and, in 1970, the bluesman recorded the HowlinΓΓé¼Γäó Wolf London Sessions LP, with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts in attendance.
While then young upstarts Rolling Stones covered Little Red Rooster and Led Zepplin and Jimi Hendrix covered Killing Floor, Chess executives, in turn, wanted the ageing bluesmen such as Muddy Waters and HowlinΓΓé¼Γäó Wolf to record what they imagine to be ΓΓé¼┼ôpsychedelicΓΓé¼┬¥ versions of their greatest hits. As critic Charles Shaar Murray notes: ΓΓé¼┼ôWatersΓΓé¼Γäó Electric Mud turned out to to an abomination, and HowlinΓΓé¼Γäó WolfΓΓé¼Γäós New Album was worseΓΓ鼪 Wolf told everyone who would listen that the album was ΓΓé¼╦£dog shit.ΓΓé¼Γäó He probably blamed the whole ghastly business on Hendrix
HowlinΓΓé¼Γäó WolfΓΓé¼Γäós last album was The Back Door Wolf, which was finished in August 1973. However, he did not perform any songs from the new album at Ebbets Field. Instead he played a best-of set. Wolf was rather sick in the early ΓΓé¼Γäó70s (his kidneys were failing him and he received dialysis treatments every three days - Wolf passed away in 1976 at the age of 65). But that did not show on the Ebbets Field set. He was stoic then as he was when he played his last gig in 1975.
Instead, fans got the whole works - from swinging blues to low-down dirty blues, albeit within a span of 10 songs. And not only is Wolf in form, the band is cooking up a storm. For the fans, a good way to remember the bluesman; for newcomers, a good introduction to electric blues.
And for those who are wondering, Ebbets Field was a small but influential club in Denver in the ΓΓé¼Γäó70s that hosted some of the biggest names in the music scene.
ΓΓé¼┼ôIf you think it was a field, you werenΓΓé¼Γäót there.ΓΓé¼┬¥

Tracklist
01. Talk To My Baby 4:52
02. I Can't Stop Loving You 4:15
03. Your Love is Creeping Away From Me 5:00
04. Baby Workout 3:04
05. How Blue Can You Get 6:48
06. What'd I Say 5:32
07. Little Red Rooster 4:38
08. Goin' Down Slow 9:26
09. Killing Floor 4:12
10. Shake For Me & Outro 6:46

Howlin' Wolf - Guitar & Vocals
Eddie Shaw - Tenor Sax & Vocals
Detroit Junior - Piano & Vocals
Hubert Sumlin - Guitar
Andrew McMahon - Bass
S.P. Leary - Drums