''Live and Cookin, subtitled ''at Alice's Revisited'', is a live album by blues musician

Howlin' Wolf Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. Over a four-decade care ...

, released by

Chess Records Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll ...

in 1972.Both Sides Now: GRT Consolidated Chess/Cadet Album Discography (1971-1975)
Bsnpubs.com, accessed September 20, 2019

Reception

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...

reviewer

Cub Koda Michael "Cub" Koda (born October 1, 1948 – July 1, 2000) was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine considered him best known for writing the song " S ...

wrote: "The 1972 live album ''Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited'' is a great document of Wolf toward the end, still capable of bringing the heat and rocking the house down to the last brick".

Track listing

All compositions credited to Chester Burnett except where noted # "When I Laid Down I Was Troubled" – 7:44 # "I Didn't Know" – 5:58 # "Mean Mistreater" (

McKinley Morganfield McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago ...

) – 6:51 # "I Had a Dream" – 4:58 # "Call Me the Wolf" – 5:45 # "Don't Laugh at Me" – 5:07 # "Just Passing By" – 5:20 # "

Sitting on Top of the World "Sitting on Top of the World" (also "Sittin' on Top of the World") is a country blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon. They were core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, who first recorded it in 1930. Vinson claimed to have com ...

" – 8:03 Additional tracks on CD reissue #

"The Big House" – 7:38 # "Mr. Airplane Man" – 7:31

Personnel

– vocals, harmonica *

Eddie Shaw Eddie Shaw (March 20, 1937 – January 29, 2018) was an American Chicago blues tenor saxophonist, arranger and bandleader. He led Howlin' Wolf's band, the Wolf Gang, from 1972, both before Wolf's death in 1976 and subsequently. Biography ...

– tenor saxophone * Albert Luandrew – piano *

Hubert Sumlin Hubert Charles Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin ...

, Willie Williams – guitar * David Myers – bass *

Fred Below Frederick Below, Jr. (September 6, 1926 – August 13, 1988) was an American blues drummer, best known for his work with Little Walter and Chess Records in the 1950s. According to Tony Russell, Below was a creator of much of the rhythmic stru ...

– drums

References

{{Howlin' Wolf 1972 live albums Howlin' Wolf live albums Chess Records live albums Albums produced by Ralph Bass