«When I heard him, I said, This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies. His eyes would light up and you’d see the veins on his neck and buddy there was nothing on his mind but that song. He sang with his damn soul (…) Once the beat got going, he would hypnotize himself and he did things musically that you wouldn’t believe. He knew that he couldn’t really talk to people except to enclose it in music.»
Sam Phillips (WREC Memphis)
Howlin’ Wolf – Shake for me
Howlin’ Wolf – How many more years
Howlin’ Wolf – Evil
«He had a voice like shattered glass being dragged over hot asphalt. It enabled him to register rage, paranoia, loneliness and lust almost as a single emotion clenched into a taut vocal fist that punched like none other on earth (…) Their music looked less towards heaven than Earth and a resignation to the rhythms of nature in general (and harvest in particular). Nature, of course, can be both cruel and kind; Wolf embodied a torrential natural force of the sort before which lesser mortals are simply swept away. His music springs from a tradition which can be traced ultimately to Africa.»
Mark Humphrey
Howlin Wolf fue unos de los primeros bluesman que descubrí cuando empecá a escuchar a los grandes clásicos. No tiene despedicio su timbre de voz, muy poderoso y rasgado, a la vez que muy brillante y con un vibrato extraordinario. Gracias por copartir estos videos clasicos.
Yago
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