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Howlin' Wolf - Cadillac Daddy: Memphis Recordings, 1952 (1952)

Track listing:
  1. Bluebird Blues 2:51
  2. Cadillac Dady 2:30
  3. Color And Kind 3:14
  4. Come Back Home 2:11
  5. Decoration Day Blues 3:18
  6. Dorothy Mae 2:40
  7. Drinkin' C.V. Wine 3:08
  8. Everybody's In The Mood 3:02
  9. I Got A Woman 3:30
  10. My Baby Walked Off 3:01
  11. My Last Affair (Take 1) 3:05
  12. Oh Red! (Take 2) 2:42

Notes

You can't possibly fault the material aboard this 12-song collection of Howlin' Wolf's Memphis recordings cut for Sam Phillips. The title track features some truly frightening guitar work from Willie Johnson,and all the material here is loaded with feral energy and a sense that it could fall apart at any second. It's totally intuitive music, with Wolf seemingly making it all up as he went along, which Sam Phillips had the patience to capture as it all went down. These are some of the great moments in blues history, but this part of Wolf's career is better documented on the two Bear Family volumes of the same material and the Flair/Virgin single disc of Memphis and West Memphis recordings.