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Howlin 'Wolf (1910-1976) Chester Arthur Burnett

aka Howlin' Wolf " Born in White Station in Mississippi June 10, 1910. Charlie Patton worked near him, he began to approach him on guitar. In 1928 he began playing in the south, and met Robert Johnson and Sonny Boy Williamson: it not only to marry his sister taught him to play harmonica.

In 1952 comes the crucial step of his career. Howlin Wolf goes to Chicago and started playing with Muddy Waters in the premises of the city. These were the years in which those premises were building a new musical style, which would soon be identified in the electric blues of Chicago, taken by the thread and sign all the great artists of the century white. Howlin Wolf form a fantastic team with pianist Otis Spann and Willie Dixon on bass, the latter a musician who has written much of the success of Wolf. Up to 1960 accounts then songs like "No Place to go ", " Forty Four", "Evil is going on," "Who's been talking ", "Moanin for my babe."

in 1960 is beginning to be requested by the greatest American Blues Festival, like St. Louis where he met Elmore James. In 1961 he published "Down in the bottom ," "Little Red Rooster ", " You'll Be Mine", " Built for comfort," "I is not superstitious . In 1961, there is also
time to go to England for some concerts, but even if it was appreciated by the critics did not like the success he had Muddy Waters.

In '73 he began his physical decline: a result of an accident is seriously ill with kidney problems, which led him only three years after his death following a desperate operation failed.
On January 10, 1976 is so sadly remembered as a day that took away from the world a voice like Howlin Wolf, unique in the world of Blues.