From Howlin’ Wolf’s 1971 live blues performance at Big Duke’s Flamingo in Chicago. Wolf's music never lost its primal quality: some of his best songs, such as ''Smokestack Lightning,'' ''Commit a Crime'' and ''I Asked for Water, but She Gave Me Gasoline,'' are trancelike one-chord vamps reaching back to African-American music's pre-Western roots. ''That's something I got from the old music,'' he said. But this was a deliberate, even stubborn, artistic choice, as much as Wolf tried to commodify h

Howlin' Wolf Live 1971 | The Blues, The Devil's Music

Howlin' Wolf - 'Howlin' for My Darlin'' live [Colourised] 1964 I only saw this recently so it goes to show that there's still footage out there to be found! The legendary Howlin Wolf in full flow on the 'Big City Blues Tour" (that followed the 64 American Folk Blues Festival tour) on the 27th October 1964 in Warsaw, Poland. This night was sold as the "Jazz Jamboree" & luckily captured by Polish TV. I don't make anything colourising and putting these videos together so please support the channel