HOWLIN' WOLF The Howlin' Wolf Album LP on Cadet Psych Funk NM In Shrink
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Jun 8, 2020
Sold Date
Jun 1, 2020
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Howlin Wolf - The Howlin Wolf Album Cadet Concept ?– LPS-319 First Pressing
Sleeve: NM
Still in shrink! Beautiful!
Vinyl: NM
Looks like it has barely been played. Lovely copy.
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By 1968, Chicago blues was a dying art form and the Chess imprint desperately needed a shot in the arm. Marshal Chess, son of label founder Leonard, tackled the problem by forcing his two biggest stars, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, to record psychedelic albums. The results were messy affairs that buried their creators’ talents under layers of wah-wah and fuzz effects in the hope of sounding hip.
While Muddy’s Electric Mud (almost) succeeded because his wide grooves were easily translated into psych riffs, Wolf’s off-kilter stomp proved too eccentric for the session musicians, who replaced them with stale vamps and superfluous effects. There are a few occasions where singer and band synch up, such as the blistering remakes of Smokestack Lightning and Evil but, for the most part, he sounds uncomfortable.
Wolf hated the results, prompting Chess’ bizarre decision to address the issue on the album’s sleeve in bold text stating “This is Howlin’ Wolf’s new album. He doesn’t like it. He didn’t like his electric guitar at first either.” Four decades later, the album remains awful, but retains a curious novelty factor. Listeners in search of a psyched-out Howlin’ Wolf would be better off checking out early Captain Beefheart. ---Mat Croft, recordcollectormag.com
Born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, Chester Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, helped modernize the country blues with his powerful vocal style and harmonica work and his ability to connect with an audience no matter what stage he prowled. This album, though, originally released in 1969 on the Chess Records subsidiary Cadet Records, is hardly typical Wolf, and the bluesman himself hated it, which may in some way have contributed to the album's odd cult standing. The idea was as simple as it was probably misguided, an attempt to modernize Wolf's sound into psychedelic Jimi Hendrix land, and the results were, well, odd at best, and laughable and lamentable at worst, and through no fault of Wolf's, who obviously tried his best to make sense of all of it. Howlin' Wolf completists will want this for its novelty value, but it's far from an accurate portrait of this powerful bluesman's talent and appeal. ---Steve Leggett, AllMusic Review
Grading System:
MINT - Only an unplayed or sealed record gets this grade NM (Near Mint) - Shows very little sign of play with very minimal or no scratches EX (Excellent) - Close to near mint, but with more than one or two small scratches that do not impact play VG+ (Very Good+) - Only has hairline scratches that are not obtrusive, may play with some surface noise at parts VG (Very Good) - Has multiple hairline scratches of varying sizes, possibly a feel-able scratch that would impact play if noted G+ (Good plus) - Has many scratches, including feelable ones that impact play G (Good) - Never understood why this is called "good", a record with this grade is far from it. Many feelable scratches, possibly a skip P (Poor) - I typically do not auction records in this condition
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