I met Wolf in Los Angeles around 1971. i introduced myself and shook his hand. He had a hand like a baseball players catchers mitt,,,HUGE,, and a vise grip. We had a good talk. He was a very nice man. Once in a lifetime experience.
Back in 1969 I was sweet sixteen. My elder sister called me and told her to meet her in the city at 6pm. She took me to see howlin wolf live in a nightclub in Birmingham England. I was beside myself with excitement.I had been playing his music since I was 14. At the club howlin stepped of the podium and sang smokestack lightning to me once two feet away.I thought I would die, itwas so fantastic.god bless you Chester and my sister.
You all in England, and Europe kept the Blues going while it was dying here in the States. I played with R.L. Burnside for years mostly as his harp player bit of guitar, and with other Bluesman in the 80s and 90s still the best gigs were in Europe... R.L. did some Wolf sonpppllllĺlĺĺlllgs who I truly loved you are very lucky....I did sit just a few feet away from Muddy Waters, and his band a couple nights in a row at a lubin Eugene, Oregon back in 79 maybe, then after Muddy's passing R.L., and I split sets a weekend with Muddys old band the Legindary Bluesl Band...being a touring musician is hard work....but there was Howling in your neighborhood how cool was thar? Well, I guess we both have some pretty fine memories.
I read a story from a Sailor who watched him play said when Wolf stood up he kept standing up up up and up he was so big of human being. He’s was man. Holds the record of longest standing ovation…. Chicago two weeks before he passed away. His mom disowned him for playing the blues, and didn’t even visit him while he was in the hospital dying. Long live the legend of the Wolf.
Wolf was a REAL interesting person. He provided his musicians with health care insurance. He often to a paternal interest in them, made sure they stayed out of trouble. He was functionally illiterate into his 40s, but then got a GED and studied business and finance. Never took advances from record companies.
Some years back, I read an article somewhere on line written by a college/university math professor who had know Wolf in his later years. He said that Wolf was, and I quote: "A mathematical genius". Even allowing for some kind-hearted hyperbole, it says a lot.
This is part of a movie by the late Len Sauer that was released in 1972. He showed it only a few times and then was sued by Wolf's widow, Lillie Burnett, because he didn't clear the song rights. He couldn't show it again, and he was bitter about it. I got a copy of this in 1995 through the blues geek grapevine, and even tried to get a copy of it from Sauer, who lived in Chicago but was, alas, an aging paranoiac who refused to show it for me. A few years later, I told one of Martin Scorsese's producers about this film and they bought a few minutes of it from Sauer for Scorsese's 6-part blues movie series that came out in 2003. I'm glad they used it. Sauer's nephew ended up with the whole film and may have released this copy of it. (I don't know that.) There was another film of Wolf shot over several hours on three consecutive nights in a club in Chicago in 1968. The guy who produced it, an amateur, ran out of money and couldn't pay to get it out of the film lab. What a loss! It was Wolf in his late prime. The guy who directed it, Leon Gast, who later won an Academy Award for "When We Were Kings," was aghast. It was his first film and he loved the Wolf. He told me it was the biggest disappointment of his film career. He did have one reel of it when I called him in the early 2000s: alas, without sound. I wonder what happened to it.
I love his personality and he was down to earth and very smart. These type of black men are a dying breed and they truly don’t make them like this anymore indeed.
Wolf seems like a straight shooter. Tell it how it is and my dad grew up listening to this kinda blues so I’d imagine he was listening to it with his dad. It doesn’t even surprise me hearing Wolf talk about the same things that happened back then that’s still going on now.
He should have deserved even more recognition during his lifetime. All the wealth and success and more, as he was a real king of music. His art is immortal
One of the most amazing humans to ever walk the planet! He sang and wrote from the heart and life experiences...true blues...his mother disowned him , never wanting to see him again. She was very religious and told him that he was playing the devils music... now that is the blues....and very sad
@@andreascano8533if you have the option, turn on CC, (closed captions). It doesn't show everything you hear people saying and what it does show isn't exactly a %100 accurate transcript of what it picks up. I'm talking about the English language setting on my devices. Hope this is helpful. And the blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad....
As if "conditions" ever stopped a black mans being voted in as president , - right ? Stop imagining yourself part of the civil rights struggle. It's an insult to anyone who ever actually fought and paid the price , just for you to sit here and snivel online , like a bitch.
This man wrote the gospel of heavy blues music it's a priviledge to play it and spread it. Bar none. The god damn Wolf. Chester Burnett. Rest in Power.
First time I have seen Howlin' Wolf speak and sing. Darn, he has always been my boyfriend in my dreams. What a legend!!!! Mmmm🔥I was a Lil creaspy cream girl with pigtails from Alabama. Lol Nobody better than Nobody. I always knew that.🎼🎵🎶🔥
Without him and all of the bluesman and woman music would not have enjoyed the life it has had. Thank God for all of them. Without the music I would have long ago become to sad to live. These are the real heroes of music.
Wolf didnt even have to _try_ --- all he had to do was just SPEAK, and he sent your entire body into a tremor, as if you were having a convulsion!!! Plus --- he was the handsomest man alive!!! 😍 Rest in eternal LOVE King ❤👑
To think you could just walk into a bar and see Howling Wolf playing with a band, the music is superb and just grabs you and makes you feel good The interview is so interesting and gives you an insight about the conict between blues artists we weren't aware of. And the added bonus of the footage being in colour
The Wolf was one of the first blues men I listened to back in 1975 when I was 14. Always loved his stuff and his guitarist on most of his tunes , Hubert Sumlin was great. All those guys from Chess Studios (Chicago) from Muddy to Buddy Guy and everyone in between always under the masterful eye of the great Willie Dixon (who pretty much ran the place for Phil and Leonard Chess. He also wrote so many tunes.
imagine him in the age of cellphones where you could have hours of footage like this. he looks great here. a few years later goin down slow was sadder i guess.
My all time favorite blues man Chester Burnett. Followed by Muddy, Albert King, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Mr. John Lee Hooker. They all playin' now at that big club in the sky.
howlin wolf is pretty cool . . . at each interview cut, the number of beer bottles on tables increases, and those blues songs you can hear it today, the meaning and understanding is the same as when they came out . . . interesting what he said about BB King . . .
There are those who've learned the songs perfectly, every riff; some can even imitate that gravelly tone, sort-of, but this blues is Wolf's, & Wolf's alone.
Some of those brothers were the real deal and u can tell he was the real deal .....I had older cousins were just like him , I'm 43 so I saw some of those kind of men in there last years and they were still sturn and stubborn but greaten no less .....I love Howling Wolf's music even when I didn't like my mom's music I loved the blues and she loves the blues greats and Wolf was at the top of the list RIP
I never got to witness the Wolf live something I'll always regret, but his music and soul have been a profound influence on my own musical journey, first time I heard him was like a punch to the heart. Thank you big man.
The Baddest of the Bad. Incredible bandleader. This is a great video to give a snapshot of the Wolf/Sumlin dynamic and the outstanding artistry of Hubert Sumlin. What a post. Big thanks from NC.
Wolf sang the blues on the stage, lived the blues off the stage. This is an idea of what it would've been like to hang with Howlin Wolf for an evening.
One of my all-time favorite artists! HOWLIN' WOLF is a national fuckin' treasure! It's a damn shame that a blues legend and an originator of rock and roll music is practically unknown. It makes me wonder why. On the one hand, the WOLF is telling the truth regarding the neglect that Black people have over our icons and art forms. Meanwhile, some of these same people, want to complain about Elvis, doors, and the Rolling Stones stealing our music! Not very smart. And then, there is the exploitation of these geniuses by white corporations. There is a reason why these brothers are so gifted and talented. I just love listening to the WOLF kick some knowledge. And then there's another reason why they sing the blues. It's about love and dedication!
I'm glad to see this put up. This clip appears to be colorized (?)... Wolf's nose is red in scenes and his overall skin tones seem a bit light. Perhaps it's something got 'off' in the print, however. I was Wolf's close friend, harp student and chosen photographer. Most of the iconic images of him as of 1968 you'll see are ones we collaborated in creating, both in San Francisco and when I went to visit him in Chicago. Wolf was progressive, in touch with the soul of humanity, expressive and charismatic, on stage and off. Wolf was an inspirational wounded healer who serves well as a profound role model in overcoming horrific childhood abuse, hardships and so many vile aspects of the Jim Crow south. ~ sgs (howlingwolfphotos)
I'd say it's not colourized but I'm mainly basing that on how the bass guitar looks. I've seen a lot of colourized stuff that happened to have sunburst finished fender instruments in them and they always look off and not like the finish would look normally. if it's colourized then at least judging by the look of the bass guitars finish, it's one of the best colorization jobs I've seen and if you ask me it looks too good and accurate to have been done after the fact. i don't know much about colorization though and maybe i just haven't seen many good jobs of it
Look up his Chess Box compilation and he looks the same. It's a miracle Wolf was born the way he was, sounded the way he did, and shared his gift to first America and then every corner of the world.
Wow! A full 50 years since I saw Wolf at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor and I'd seen only two film clips of him: that well produced tour in England- fabulous B/W production, all the greats: Willie D, Memphis etc etc. And then a few minutes of a backstage jam that (I think) was from Newport maybe(?). But NEVER seen live color film like this. What a TREAT! I'm a white Jew from Detroit, but I swear Wolf was my Uncle. Not sure how, but he was. In fact, my favorite Uncle. And I had some good ones!
@@jonnehayesjr.9299 A master class by Wolf or Sumlin? For a Sumlin Master Class, I would consult "Living the Blues." the Sumlin retrospective where his name is mentioned and he speaks about his craft.
Listen to Hollywood from 93 of the old days when my dad was alive you can't help from falling in love with somebody like Howlin Wolf and the old blues singers they sing from their heart and soul any just remind you of the uncle that care for you your grandfather I guess I was lucky kid there some point even though I never knew my grandfather is this older gentleman name brother Haines I miss him still today he treated me like I was his own Batman everything to me
What a superb 'discovery'/'find...! Which of course reminds me of my meeting the Mighty Wolf only just one year later at Big Duke's (1972), at his birthday party!!!( accompanied and introduced by the great Bob Koester). Sweet memories: the best blues performance I ever saw!!!!
All's I know is that once I heard Willie Dixon play spoonful - let's just say I got me a stand up bass and now I know why he had the blues- cuz them bass so expensive!!!! Got me like 20 harmonicas n gave away extras that weren't as good as others to blues lovin friends with less than. Dixon led me to sonny boy - muddy - n wolf of course. Man I love this video and hearing him speak candidly with others grabbin a drink. (I wonder if that well I digress I wonder if that record producer or whatever he had to throw in there you know like he didn't already know that he was recorded through him and he was like he was saying it for everybody else anyways like that record producer I wonder if he knew how stupid he would sound you know 40 years later hahaha he sure sound dumb don't he!!!!)
Smoke stack Lighting was my absolute favorite song by him but I just loved everything he did what a genius he was, I loved his speaking voice.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊❤❤
Damn... I've snapped up what little Howlin WOlf I've been able to track down over the years... that Cambridge '66 tape is still my favourite, but I'd never heard of this awesome video before and I used to trade with a few serious blues collectors. Awesome footage, I think I like the parts with Wolf holding court over drinks even more than the fine music performances. Thanks for uploading this.
As a small boy, I lived in a Bruce Lumber Company house in Columbus Mississippi, Mister Chester would stop by and visit every time he came through, I think he was related to half of the people who worked there. He would tell me some of the wildest stories, when he finally ran out of stories he bought a swing a-frame in West Memphis and had it trucked to Columbus on a flat bed, so I would go on and leave him alone. The last time I saw Mister Chester, I introduced him to Gore Vidal, that didn't go well. (Bruce Company was in receivership and Mister Chester demanded answers, Gore didn't have any).
When I was 14, back in the 60s, I was just getting into blues music, through white Europeans like John Mayall and my fellow Dutchman Harry Muskee. One day I found a record in a record store called "More Real Folk Bues" by this guy maned "Howlin'Wolf", which was an intriguing name of course. So I bought it (it wasn't too expensive, so I could afford out of my allowance) and took it home. When I played it wasn't at all what I expected. It was an almost frightening experience. I had never heard anything like it. And still haven't. It was a real man's music.
I was born in 1971. He died when I was 4. Don't think I first knew about him until I was in my 20s. Grateful Dead cover of Smokestack Lightning is what introduced me to his music...
Muddy and Wolf made each other the greatest blues players, they fed off each other and they were the reason there are English Blues, young musicians in England at that time idolized them😎
Darn awesome footage to be shared to the Blues fans of the world whom didn't get to see this man live, now can relive over and over million thanks for thevlove of Wolf and his music folks. 😎💙😎
I knew of the club in NOLA named after him before I knew about him. Over the years then came to know of him and his music. Just love the Wolf so much and can’t enough of these videos. May his music continue to live on.
@@MDLinzee Looks like a Kay K775 Jazz II to me, great tone from Hubert! He's probably most famous for playing an early Les Paul goldtop, but he played everything! Seen him with weird Italian guitars, Gibson Firebirds, you name it, always sounds the same.
Hubert has always killed me since I was the first time I heard him. Something totally different and almost surreal or ethereal about how he played. And the Wolf? Simply the greatest electric Blues ever recorded IMHO
Thanks for posting this! I needed to hear this. Wolf is such an amazing artist and has some substantial insight as well. There are some people you can learn a lot from just listening to; he is one of them.
I used to listen to BB King as a kid in the 80's but didn't hear about howlin' wolf until the Cadillac records movie and been listening to him ever since!! Not to mention I love wolfs so that smoke stack lighting is my favorite song of his!!! This video is dope!!! 🔥
I met Wolf in Los Angeles around 1971. i introduced myself and shook his hand. He had a hand like a baseball players catchers mitt,,,HUGE,, and a vise grip. We had a good talk. He was a very nice man. Once in a lifetime experience.
I'm jealous man. Very happy for you.
Thanks for sharing!
WOW!! TOO DAMN COOL!
Wow... just wow!!
I’m jealous too! I look up to that man like crazy!
Back in 1969 I was sweet sixteen. My elder sister called me and told her to meet her in the city at 6pm. She took me to see howlin wolf live in a nightclub in Birmingham England. I was beside myself with excitement.I had been playing his music since I was 14. At the club howlin stepped of the podium and sang smokestack lightning to me once two feet away.I thought I would die, itwas so fantastic.god bless you Chester and my sister.
Thankyou for the love!
Thankyou for the vote!
You all in England, and Europe kept the Blues going while it was dying here in the States. I played with R.L. Burnside for years mostly as his harp player bit of guitar, and with other Bluesman in the 80s and 90s still the best gigs were in Europe...
R.L. did some Wolf sonpppllllĺlĺĺlllgs who I truly loved you are very lucky....I did sit just a few feet away from Muddy Waters, and his band a couple nights in a row at a lubin Eugene, Oregon back in 79 maybe, then after Muddy's passing R.L., and I split sets a weekend with Muddys old band the Legindary Bluesl Band...being a touring musician is hard work....but there was Howling in your neighborhood how cool was thar? Well, I guess we both have some pretty fine memories.
I read a story from a Sailor who watched him play said when Wolf stood up he kept standing up up up and up he was so big of human being. He’s was man. Holds the record of longest standing ovation…. Chicago two weeks before he passed away. His mom disowned him for playing the blues, and didn’t even visit him while he was in the hospital dying. Long live the legend of the Wolf.
Wolf was a REAL interesting person. He provided his musicians with health care insurance. He often to a paternal interest in them, made sure they stayed out of trouble. He was functionally illiterate into his 40s, but then got a GED and studied business and finance. Never took advances from record companies.
Some years back, I read an article somewhere on line written by a college/university math professor who had know Wolf in his later years. He said that Wolf was, and I quote: "A mathematical genius". Even allowing for some kind-hearted hyperbole, it says a lot.
Yeah he was kicked out of the house by his mother at a real young age too and was taught by Charley Patton and Son House.
This is part of a movie by the late Len Sauer that was released in 1972. He showed it only a few times and then was sued by Wolf's widow, Lillie Burnett, because he didn't clear the song rights. He couldn't show it again, and he was bitter about it. I got a copy of this in 1995 through the blues geek grapevine, and even tried to get a copy of it from Sauer, who lived in Chicago but was, alas, an aging paranoiac who refused to show it for me. A few years later, I told one of Martin Scorsese's producers about this film and they bought a few minutes of it from Sauer for Scorsese's 6-part blues movie series that came out in 2003. I'm glad they used it. Sauer's nephew ended up with the whole film and may have released this copy of it. (I don't know that.)
There was another film of Wolf shot over several hours on three consecutive nights in a club in Chicago in 1968. The guy who produced it, an amateur, ran out of money and couldn't pay to get it out of the film lab. What a loss! It was Wolf in his late prime. The guy who directed it, Leon Gast, who later won an Academy Award for "When We Were Kings," was aghast. It was his first film and he loved the Wolf. He told me it was the biggest disappointment of his film career. He did have one reel of it when I called him in the early 2000s: alas, without sound. I wonder what happened to it.
Howlin' Wolf is my all time favorite blues singer.
Same here
Mine too baby. Fo sur
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Wolf is to Muddy as Albert King is to B.B. King...and both Wolf and Albert were 6 feet 5 inches...Big Blues men !
sorry i missed him when he was around in a class of his own.
This dude has been curing my sadness most recently I'm just grateful he was alive and he shared his gift with this planet
I found him through a cover, a band that I found at the end of this last year. The guy Josh Dion, with Paris monster
I feel ya
true that
Later bluesmen bore Me. after experiencing Wolf. Walter and Muddy early on. Check out Rev Gary Davis too!❤️
I'm with you
It's 2023 yet this music will never be old to me
No difference between his speaking voice, and his singing voice. Both were 36 grit baby!!
If I could share a beer with anyone. It would be Howlin' Wolf
I would share a bed with him in a minute. Gotta go, husband coming.
His kidneys were failing at this point in time but he still came through strong. He was amazing.
How appropriate did he ended the set with goin' down slow!
@@roberttaylor1663 yes he knew but still faced the world
They can't make a movie about this LEGEND because no one could play the part. One of a kind. Pioneer. Gift from God. Thank you!
Cadillac Records did a great job with Eamonn Walker as Wolf. Worth a watch.
The Actor on CHICAGO FIRE fire chief BODDIE
Think Macy gray related to him? Kinda just hit me
@@rossp3106 What was it the voice?
I love his personality and he was down to earth and very smart. These type of black men are a dying breed and they truly don’t make them like this anymore indeed.
And why is this White man trying to be hip and talk in Black dialect?😮
Wolf seems like a straight shooter. Tell it how it is and my dad grew up listening to this kinda blues so I’d imagine he was listening to it with his dad.
It doesn’t even surprise me hearing Wolf talk about the same things that happened back then that’s still going on now.
This is the closest ill ever get to having a drink with howlin wolf, what a legend
What a treat to hear candid conversations with such a legend.
He should have deserved even more recognition during his lifetime. All the wealth and success and more, as he was a real king of music. His art is immortal
I feel to believe that if B.B. King wasn't sitting next to him, it wouldn't be a interview like this one was. My opinion and thoughts...
Hubbert Sumlin was a beast on that guitar.
So good to see Wolf in color. Thanks for posting.
One of the most amazing humans to ever walk the planet! He sang and wrote from the heart and life experiences...true blues...his mother disowned him , never wanting to see him again. She was very religious and told him that he was playing the devils music... now that is the blues....and very sad
If you know where to listen, the Wolf is just dropping pearls throughout this interview
For Real,wise man he was!!
I'ld like to understand every single word he says, but I'm italian and I can understand just a few words..
Yup Howlin Wolf was speaking truth to the Black man and the white man was slipping in condescending remarks at every turn. Smdh
@@andreascano8533if you have the option, turn on CC, (closed captions). It doesn't show everything you hear people saying and what it does show isn't exactly a %100 accurate transcript of what it picks up. I'm talking about the English language setting on my devices. Hope this is helpful. And the blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad....
Howlin' Wolf: "Conditions...what make thangs like it is today"
Wolf! You ain't never lied. "Conditions" are worse. RIP
lol
As if "conditions" ever stopped a black mans being voted in as president , - right ?
Stop imagining yourself part of the civil rights struggle. It's an insult to anyone who ever actually fought and paid the price , just for you to sit here and snivel online , like a bitch.
@@paulrodgers5559 What Black man was voted President? Who was that?
There are lots of poor black people and more of them are not criminals than are. Stop making excuses for black criminals.
Yep. 75% of kids raised by single mothers takes a serious toll on the condition of a population
It don't get no better than this the man was a genius
This man wrote the gospel of heavy blues music it's a priviledge to play it and spread it. Bar none. The god damn Wolf. Chester Burnett. Rest in Power.
Yes, the man was a genius. All that study he did to learn to read music after he saw work in that as a job. He's never given credit for that.
Yes
Natural born man right here. Howling Wolf.
I first heard Smokestack Lightning when I was 14…that was in 1965. The man’s music has never left me since. I love this video. Thanks for posting it.
Wolf is a once in a lifetime kind of man, and musician. Thankful we have video's like this to see the legend with our own eyes.
complex, clear as day, majestic. a beautiful man.
“It’s blues time, now!” The Wolf don’t lie.😃
First time I have seen Howlin' Wolf speak and sing. Darn, he has always been my boyfriend in my dreams. What a legend!!!! Mmmm🔥I was a Lil creaspy cream girl with pigtails from Alabama. Lol Nobody better than Nobody. I always knew that.🎼🎵🎶🔥
He was most likely a wife beater.
Without him and all of the bluesman and woman music would not have enjoyed the life it has had. Thank God for all of them. Without the music I would have long ago become to sad to live. These are the real heroes of music.
I feel ya bro
This man draws you in. The G.O.A.T. rest in peace King.
Wolf didnt even have to _try_ --- all he had to do was just SPEAK, and he sent your entire body into a tremor, as if you were having a convulsion!!!
Plus --- he was the handsomest man alive!!! 😍
Rest in eternal LOVE King ❤👑
Rest in paradise wolf
To think you could just walk into a bar and see Howling Wolf playing with a band, the music is superb and just grabs you and makes you feel good
The interview is so interesting and gives you an insight about the conict between blues artists we weren't aware of.
And the added bonus of the footage being in colour
I read somewhere Muddy and Wolf played the same show once and Magic Sam was the entertainment between sets!
back when clubs/bars would pay good
$$$ for music because people used to actually COME OUT and PAY for live music!
watch the movie Cadillac Records on Netflix...
The Wolf was one of the first blues men I listened to back in 1975 when I was 14. Always loved his stuff and his guitarist on most of his tunes , Hubert Sumlin was great. All those guys from Chess Studios (Chicago) from Muddy to Buddy Guy and everyone in between always under the masterful eye of the great Willie Dixon (who pretty much ran the place for Phil and Leonard Chess. He also wrote so many tunes.
Seems blues men can drink up and just perform better!
Killing floor with Hubert was as good as any blues song ever laid down. In 500 years it will hit someone like a brick !
Willie was the architect, Chester was the contractor!
@@frankcoverjr.-jz3ne nice. Lol.
the best - we will never have another - HOWLIN..........
imagine him in the age of cellphones where you could have hours of footage like this. he looks great here. a few years later goin down slow was sadder i guess.
I thought I had all the Wolf's live videos, but then found this one. WOWZER! I really love the interview - its the real. Shake it baby!!
He had the most raw voice i've ever heard.
My all time favorite blues man Chester Burnett. Followed by Muddy, Albert King, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Mr. John Lee Hooker. They all playin' now at that big club in the sky.
Robert Johnson ain't...
Same guys but different order for me. B.B., Luther Allison, Little Milton in there, too.
@ robert leslie NOPE. Way down there below - Devil s music ! Wolf s ma told him so.
Willie Dixon
Wolf was a respectable man! He did things the right way! You cross him and you had to deal with him.
I love the Wolf, Mr. Howlin’ Wolf!!!
🎶🎙"Well I gotta woman, shake like jelly ona plate!" I can listen to Wolf all night. "NOBODY NO BETTER THAN NOBODY."
It will never get better than the Wolf, nobody was as unique or Powerful than this Great Blues Man bar none.
AGREED 200% . Evil , is goin on all the time all aroun. A metaphysical statement, the Schopenhauer of juke joints ....
howlin wolf is pretty cool . . . at each interview cut, the number of beer bottles on tables increases, and those blues songs you can hear it today, the meaning and understanding is the same as when they came out . . . interesting what he said about BB King . . .
There are those who've learned the songs perfectly, every riff; some can even imitate that gravelly tone, sort-of, but this blues is Wolf's, & Wolf's alone.
Some of those brothers were the real deal and u can tell he was the real deal .....I had older cousins were just like him , I'm 43 so I saw some of those kind of men in there last years and they were still sturn and stubborn but greaten no less .....I love Howling Wolf's music even when I didn't like my mom's music I loved the blues and she loves the blues greats and Wolf was at the top of the list RIP
No one had more feelings on the blues then Howlin Wolf he was the man # 1 nobody even close
waouh incredible footage, so precious!! And Hubert Sumlin and Fred Below on top of it!!
A big man but humble, the Wolf is my favorite blues guy of all time. Hubert Sumlin on lead guitar in the back.
I never got to witness the Wolf live something I'll always regret, but his music and soul have been a profound influence on my own musical journey, first time I heard him was like a punch to the heart. Thank you big man.
I love this! Great find! 🎸🎶
What a true gem!! Love that this is up on line, Howlin Wolf is amazing!
This is priceless!!! Howlin Wolf is a National Treasure for sho!!! Love this guys' sound. Thx so much for the post!!! 👍🌟👏
Doesn't get much better than this. That tackling a freight train punch line from Wolf was sublime!
Thanks for making this available.
The Baddest of the Bad. Incredible bandleader. This is a great video to give a snapshot of the Wolf/Sumlin dynamic and the outstanding artistry of Hubert Sumlin. What a post. Big thanks from NC.
Howlin Wolf yeah baby ! Man the blues at its rawness. Love it. ❤🎸💜
Amazing talent. This man fathered many of the signature sounds in the blues and what would become rock and roll!!!
Wolf sang the blues on the stage, lived the blues off the stage. This is an idea of what it would've been like to hang with Howlin Wolf for an evening.
Good ol' Howlin speaking truth to power
One of my all-time favorite artists!
HOWLIN' WOLF is a national fuckin' treasure!
It's a damn shame that a blues legend and an originator of rock and roll music is practically unknown.
It makes me wonder why. On the one hand, the WOLF is telling the truth regarding the neglect that Black people have over our icons and art forms. Meanwhile, some of these same people, want to complain about Elvis, doors, and the Rolling Stones stealing our music! Not very smart.
And then, there is the exploitation of these geniuses by white corporations.
There is a reason why these brothers are so gifted and talented. I just love listening to the WOLF kick some knowledge.
And then there's another reason why they sing the blues.
It's about love and dedication!
Can never get enough Howlin’ Wolf😅
I'm glad to see this put up. This clip appears to be colorized (?)... Wolf's nose is red in scenes and his overall skin tones seem a bit light. Perhaps it's something got 'off' in the print, however.
I was Wolf's close friend, harp student and chosen photographer. Most of the iconic images of him as of 1968 you'll see are ones we collaborated in creating, both in San Francisco and when I went to visit him in Chicago.
Wolf was progressive, in touch with the soul of humanity, expressive and charismatic, on stage and off. Wolf was an inspirational wounded healer who serves well as a profound role model in overcoming horrific childhood abuse, hardships and so many vile aspects of the Jim Crow south. ~ sgs
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I'd say it's not colourized but I'm mainly basing that on how the bass guitar looks. I've seen a lot of colourized stuff that happened to have sunburst finished fender instruments in them and they always look off and not like the finish would look normally. if it's colourized then at least judging by the look of the bass guitars finish, it's one of the best colorization jobs I've seen and if you ask me it looks too good and accurate to have been done after the fact. i don't know much about colorization though and maybe i just haven't seen many good jobs of it
Look up his Chess Box compilation and he looks the same. It's a miracle Wolf was born the way he was, sounded the way he did, and shared his gift to first America and then every corner of the world.
Wow! A full 50 years since I saw Wolf at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor and I'd seen only two film clips of him: that well produced tour in England- fabulous B/W production, all the greats: Willie D, Memphis etc etc. And then a few minutes of a backstage jam that (I think) was from Newport maybe(?). But NEVER seen live color film like this. What a TREAT! I'm a white Jew from Detroit, but I swear Wolf was my Uncle. Not sure how, but he was. In fact, my favorite Uncle. And I had some good ones!
Great clip! The amazing and influential Hubert Sumlin on guitar.
He's giving a clinic.
@@thebluesandothercolors6602 Master class
@@jonnehayesjr.9299 A master class by Wolf or Sumlin? For a Sumlin Master Class, I would consult "Living the Blues." the Sumlin retrospective where his name is mentioned and he speaks about his craft.
Hubert is my all time favorite guitar player.
Howlin Wolf in Colour.. thank you for this 😊
Legendary !
Right from the start of the interview honesty from the heart.
This is more than awesome,Mr Wolf always has & delivered cool music
This man is the top of the heap, absolutely
Listen to Hollywood from 93 of the old days when my dad was alive you can't help from falling in love with somebody like Howlin Wolf and the old blues singers they sing from their heart and soul any just remind you of the uncle that care for you your grandfather I guess I was lucky kid there some point even though I never knew my grandfather is this older gentleman name brother Haines I miss him still today he treated me like I was his own Batman everything to me
The Wolf is one bad ass Bluesman!!
Great Bluesman miss him they don't make em like the Wolf
What a superb 'discovery'/'find...! Which of course reminds me of my meeting the Mighty Wolf only just one year later at Big Duke's (1972), at his birthday party!!!( accompanied and introduced by the great Bob Koester). Sweet memories: the best blues performance I ever saw!!!!
All's I know is that once I heard Willie Dixon play spoonful - let's just say I got me a stand up bass and now I know why he had the blues- cuz them bass so expensive!!!! Got me like 20 harmonicas n gave away extras that weren't as good as others to blues lovin friends with less than. Dixon led me to sonny boy - muddy - n wolf of course. Man I love this video and hearing him speak candidly with others grabbin a drink. (I wonder if that well I digress I wonder if that record producer or whatever he had to throw in there you know like he didn't already know that he was recorded through him and he was like he was saying it for everybody else anyways like that record producer I wonder if he knew how stupid he would sound you know 40 years later hahaha he sure sound dumb don't he!!!!)
He was in the house at the Univ Ampitheater, Chitown with the Stones and I picked Milwaukee in '75, missing it by a couple days
Amazing Howlin wolf! Nobody like him. Love from Sweden💛💙
There’s only one word to describe Wolf, enormous. He was enormous in every way a man can be.
Every way?
GOOD LORD!@@MisterRlGHT
Smoke stack Lighting was my absolute favorite song by him but I just loved everything he did what a genius he was, I loved his speaking voice.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊❤❤
Wolf was the ultimate bad ass. His insight was special.
Damn... I've snapped up what little Howlin WOlf I've been able to track down over the years... that Cambridge '66 tape is still my favourite, but I'd never heard of this awesome video before and I used to trade with a few serious blues collectors. Awesome footage, I think I like the parts with Wolf holding court over drinks even more than the fine music performances. Thanks for uploading this.
As a small boy, I lived in a Bruce Lumber Company house in Columbus Mississippi, Mister Chester would stop by and visit every time he came through, I think he was related to half of the people who worked there. He would tell me some of the wildest stories, when he finally ran out of stories he bought a swing a-frame in West Memphis and had it trucked to Columbus on a flat bed, so I would go on and leave him alone.
The last time I saw Mister Chester, I introduced him to Gore Vidal, that didn't go well. (Bruce Company was in receivership and Mister Chester demanded answers, Gore didn't have any).
That sounds like a Blues song ... or a Dylan song ... or a dream ....
Best Wolf performance. That second song is beautiful, but of course it all is
Asked her for Water is a classic Wolf tune
The wolf dropping knowledge RIP
A very talented,naughty Howling Wolf.....😎
I am saving this
When I was 14, back in the 60s, I was just getting into blues music, through white Europeans like John Mayall and my fellow Dutchman Harry Muskee. One day I found a record in a record store called "More Real Folk Bues" by this guy maned "Howlin'Wolf", which was an intriguing name of course. So I bought it (it wasn't too expensive, so I could afford out of my allowance) and took it home. When I played it wasn't at all what I expected. It was an almost frightening experience. I had never heard anything like it. And still haven't. It was a real man's music.
I was born in 1971. He died when I was 4. Don't think I first knew about him until I was in my 20s. Grateful Dead cover of Smokestack Lightning is what introduced me to his music...
Cool.
Thanks For Sharing.
my all time favorite for ever blues-man, rip Chester "Howlin Wolf" Burnett
Chester Arthur "Howlin 🐺" Burnett
a total and complete bad ass, that's a man right here.
Muddy and Wolf made each other the greatest blues players, they fed off each other and they were the reason there are English Blues, young musicians in England at that time idolized them😎
" I don't need no Cadillac, just pay me what you owe me".....
Darn awesome footage to be shared to the Blues fans of the world whom didn't get to see this man live, now can relive over and over million thanks for thevlove of Wolf and his music folks. 😎💙😎
I knew of the club in NOLA named after him before I knew about him. Over the years then came to know of him and his music. Just love the Wolf so much and can’t enough of these videos. May his music continue to live on.
Hubert killing it!!🎸
Would love to know what kind of guitar Hubert’s playing
@@MDLinzee Looks like a Kay K775 Jazz II to me, great tone from Hubert! He's probably most famous for playing an early Les Paul goldtop, but he played everything! Seen him with weird Italian guitars, Gibson Firebirds, you name it, always sounds the same.
The GOAT.
Hubert has always killed me since I was the first time I heard him. Something totally different and almost surreal or ethereal about how he played. And the Wolf? Simply the greatest electric Blues ever recorded IMHO
For Real,Wolf fired him until he could learn how to play without a pick,and he aced it,Wolf brought him back
A primeira vez que eu escutei howlin Wolf foi en 2008 e escuto até agora muito bom esse blues
This is MUCH BETTER than the live album he did around the same time . WOW !
HI WOLF 🐺 what U say is so true 😊 U were just like a dad 2 alot of people OMG
Thats fucking swag there!!! All day long.
The King of swag!
Thanks for posting this! I needed to hear this. Wolf is such an amazing artist and has some substantial insight as well. There are some people you can learn a lot from just listening to; he is one of them.
I used to listen to BB King as a kid in the 80's but didn't hear about howlin' wolf until the Cadillac records movie and been listening to him ever since!! Not to mention I love wolfs so that smoke stack lighting is my favorite song of his!!! This video is dope!!! 🔥
A really dignified man! Thank you for this post
I am completely blown away
The whole thing, this is a real as it gets. I could smell that bar.
this conversation sounds like Gary talking to the old black guys in Weird Science.
This is pure gold! Thank you for sharing!!