Moanin 'in the moonlight

Moanin 'in the moonlight
Howlin 'Wolf's studio album
Publication (s)	1959
Label (s)	Chess Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Chicago blues
Title (number)	12
running time	33m 53s
occupation	Howlin 'Wolf - vocals , harmonica Willie Johnson - guitar Jody Williams - guitar Willie Dixon - bass Otis Spann - piano Hubert Sumlin - guitar Willie Steele - drums Earl Phillips - drums Adolph “Billy” Dockins - tenor saxophone with Moanin 'for my Baby Lee Cooper - guitar at No Place to Go Fred Below - drums at All Night Boogie Ike Turner - piano in How Many More Years SP Leary - drums for I'm Leavin 'You Smokey Smothers - guitar with I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
Studio (s)	May 1951 or August 1951 on Sun Records March 1959 with Chess Records
chronology - Moanin 'in the moonlight Howlin 'Wolf (1962)

Moanin 'in the Moonlight is the first studio album by US blues musician Howlin' Wolf , released in 1959 on Chess Records . Strictly speaking, it is a compilation album that collects material that was previously released as a single . Therefore an unusually high number of different musicians can be heard on the album.

Moanin 'in the Moonlight was Wolf's first long-playing record. To date, his reputation had been based on various singles. Not all of the recordings on the album were produced by the Chess and / or Willie Dixon brothers . Two songs ( Moanin 'at Midnight and How Many More Years ) were recorded by Sam Phillips on Sun Records . Chess Records bought these recordings in order to be able to release them.

The album is considered one of the most important and best releases of the Chicago blues . The Rolling Stone lists it currently is ranked 154 of the 500 best albums of all time . Allmusic.com gives it five stars out of five.

Track list

All songs were written by Chester Burnett, aka Howlin 'Wolf. Exceptions are marked. On the original album, the authorship of the song Forty-Four Wolf is personally assigned; in fact, the piece was written by Roosevelt Sykes, who recorded it as 44 Blues .

1. Moanin 'at Midnight - 2:58
2. How Many More Years - 2:42
3. Smokestack Lightning - 3:07
4. Baby How Long - 2:56
5. No Place to Go - 2:59
6. All Night Boogie - 2:12
7. Evil ( Willie Dixon ) - 2:55
8. I'm Leavin 'You - 3:01
9. Moanin 'for my Baby - 2:47
10. I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) - 2:53
11. Forty-Four ( Roosevelt Sykes ) - 2:51
12. Somebody in My Home - 2:27

Web links

• Material for the album
• Review of the album on Allmusic.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Howlin 'Wolf,' Moanin 'in the Moonlight on rollingstone.com, accessed December 29, 2013. (English)
2. ↑ Howlin 'Wolf / Moanin in the Moonlight on allmusic.com, accessed on December 29, 2013. (English)