Results for Howlin' WolfThis Chicago blues great inspired the guitar playing of such musicians as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. His electric blues and his deep voice shaped rock and roll. Raised on a cotton plantation, he learned guitar as a child. The imposing six foot three and three-hundred-pound Wolf appeared at blues and rock festivals in the late sixties. He received an honorary doctorate from Columbia College in Chicago and lived the last years of his life in Chicago's crumbling South Side ghetto. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.“more
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by Denise Sullivan•March 10, 2009•
"Exhuming the bones of trash culture and rearranging them to fit the punk times, the Cramps brought life to late ’50s and ’60s exploitation."
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by Denise Sullivan•March 4, 2009•
"What the Ash Grove did," says Ed Pearl, "was change the face of popular music." So why would anyone want to burn it down three times?
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by Matt Clevenger•January 28, 2009•
Born in working-class Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England during World War II, Burdon says he first fell in love with American blues and rock after a chance encounter with Muddy Waters, who was in Europe on tour with the Chris Barber Jazz Band. “In the heart of my hometown there’s the city hall,” he explains. “It’s the premier performance place in North East England. One summer’s eve, I was coming home from exams to enter art school, and the doors leading to the stage
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by Denise Sullivan•January 14, 2009•
It's not as if I expected the film to imitate life exactly, but I hadn't anticipated just how unlike the story as it is generally known it would be.
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by Paul Williams•November 5, 2008•
The story about “Give Peace a Chance” is, I was traveling with Timothy and Rosemary Leary at the time; Tim was supposedly running for Governor of California, and my role for the week was campaign adviser. The first thing we did, after speaking to a college audience in San Luis Obispo, was fly to Hollywood, Florida for a rock festival on an Indian reservation, organized by the acid-dealing children of the Miami Mafia.
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11/15/2007
[quote user="Peter H"]
To paraphrase Max Yasgur, “I’m a rock fan.” My first album was the Beatles Second Album. 9th...
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1/11/2007
It would be a great thing to see Howlin' Wolf...maybe Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Mama Thornton sets, too.
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1/6/2007
Oldhippy,
Head up my…? With my old back I’d never be able to get my
head anywhere near my ass. There’s...
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12/31/2006
Do you have any Howlin Wolf shows in the archive?
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12/20/2006
I second that vote for more great blues performances (especially howlin
wolf and magic sam). A few other names I...
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