MY PERSONAL GUIDING LIGHT FOR ALL THINGS BLUES, THE COMPLETE MASTER OF HIS CHOSEN MEDIUM, STILL AS FRESH AND TIMELESS TODAY AS IT WAS SEVENTY FIVE YEARS AGO, A VITAL AND UNDENIABLE CONDUIT FOR ALL WHO CAME AFTER . . . . ALWAYS SEEMED PRETTY FUCKED UP TO ME THAT MEN LIKE HOWLIN' WOLF GOT NO RESPECT OR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM THE BROADER, WHITE DOMINATED MUSIC COMMUNITY IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY UNTIL IT WAS PRETTY WELL TOO FUCKING LATE . . . . IN FACT, IT WAS THE LIKES OF THE STONES AND THE FAB FOUR WHO FINALLY SHONE THE LONG OVERDUE SPOTLIGHT ON THIS APPALLING STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE SIXTIES . . . . RACISM SUCKS BALLS, THEN, NOW AND FOREVER . . . . HOWL ON MAN !!! RIP.
Wednesday 12 September 2012
HOWLIN' WOLF - "SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING" [BRETTMARVINBLUES] . . . . SOME FOLK REQUIRE NO REAL INTRO AT ALL . . . . SUFFICE TO SAY THE ORIGINAL 'WOLFMAN' IS EMBLEMATIC OF A GENERATION OF BLUES PIONEERS WHO BARELY GOT THEIR DUE BEFORE THEY SHUFFLED OFF TO THE BIG GIG IN THE SKY . . . . WITHOUT HOWLIN' WOLF AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, MODERN MUSIC WOULD BE NOTHIN AT ALL !!!
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Hello Mr WLP :D
ReplyDeleteYes i'm back onto the blogosphere and happy to read this nice post about the big bad Wolf.
In a more modern rockin style you should check the work of the British band "the Excellos". i swear you gonna dig it :)
Bye bye honey.
Ollie.
Hey baby, the original Wolfman, nothin more real . . . I'll get onto The Excellos and check it out, thanks for the tip surfer girl, aurevoir mon cherie. XX
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