''More Real Folk Blues'' is a compilation album by

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, cha ...

musician

Howlin' Wolf Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chica ...

, 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 an ...

in 1967. It includes songs that were recorded in Memphis and Chicago between 1953 and 1956.

Reception

In a review for

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, critic

Cub Koda Michael John "Cub" Koda (né Uszniewicz; October 1, 1948 – July 1, 2000) was an Americans, American rock and roll musician, songwriter, and critic. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine considered him best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys ...

wrote: "This companion volume to the ''Real Folk Blues'' album was issued in 1967 and couldn't be more dissimilar in content to the first one if you had planned it that way. Whereas the previous volume highlighted middle-period Wolf, this one goes back to his earliest Chess sessions, many of which sound like leftover Memphis side".

Track listing

All compositions are credited to Chester Burnett, also known as Howlin' Wolf. # "Just My Kind" – 2:50 # "I've Got a Woman" – 2:53 # "Work for Your Money" – 2:10 # "I'll Be Around" – 3:11 # "You Can't Be Beat" – 3:06 # "You Gonna Wreck My Life" – 2:34 # "I Love My Baby" – 2:55 # "Neighbors" – 2:43 # "I'm the Wolf" – 2:47 # "Rocking Daddy" – 3:00 # "Who Will Be Next?" – 2:30 # "I Have a Little Girl" – 2:35 *Recorded in Memphis in 1953 (tracks 1–3 & 7) and in Chicago in March 1954 (tracks 6 & 8–10), October 1954 (track 4), March 1955 (tracks 11 & 12) and January 1956 (track 5)

Personnel

– vocals, harmonica *

Henry Gray Henry Gray (1827 – 13 June 1861) was a British anatomist and surgery, surgeon most notable for publishing the book ''Gray's Anatomy''. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25. Biography Gray was born ...

(tracks 11 & 12), Hosea Lee Kennard (track 5–7),

Otis Spann Otis Spann (March 21, 1924, or 1930April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician many consider the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. Early life Sources differ over Spann's early years. Some state that he was born in Jackson, Mississippi, ...

(tracks 4 & 8–10) – piano *

Lee Cooper Lee Cooper is an English-American clothing and footwear manufacturing company, based in Shoreditch, that specialises in denim products. As well as its own production, the company licences the sale of many Lee Cooper-branded items worldwide. ...

(tracks 6 & 8–10), Willie Johnson (tracks 1–3, 5 & 7),

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 Howl ...

(tracks 4, 5, 11 & 12),

Jody Williams Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950) is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of securit ...

(track 4, 11 & 12) – guitar *

Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...

– bass (tracks 4–6 & 8–12) *Earl Phillips – drums (tracks 4–6 & 8–12) *Other unidentified musicians

References

{{Authority control Howlin' Wolf albums 1967 albums Chess Records albums Albums produced by Marshall Chess