Howlin' Wolf, the blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, known for his amazing presence and contribution to blues and rock 'n' roll. Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all ...

From his locked room, Chester Burnett could hear the trains rattling up the tracks, one every half hour. They reminded him of home, back on Dockery Plantation, when he played on the porches of old ...

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— Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y. Late blues great Howlin’ Wolf’s 1971 album “The London’ Howlin’ Wolf Sessions” will be reissued March 4 via Chess/MCA. The digitally remastered set — which features ...

(Gibson) On this day in 1976, blues artist Howlin' Wolf (a.k.a. Chester Burnett) died of cancer, aged 66. The guitarist, singer and harmonica player's songs included "Smoke Stack Lightning," "Little ...

The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach drove up the costs of a documentary about Chicago blues icon Howlin' Wolf and then bailed on the project, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in L.A. County… ...

I’ve been listening to Howlin’ Wolf since I was seven or eight. At first, his voice entered me almost through osmosis, a feeling in the night air, bloody moonlight falling through the trees on the ...

You might have forgotten about (or never heard) these blues hits from the 1950s, but I bet your parents were obsessed with ...

Musselwhite, 82, reflects on 60 years of blues mastery in an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE at Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest ...