Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett, known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi. With a booming voice and looming physical presence, he is one of the best-known Chicago blues artists. Musician and critic Cub Koda noted, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Producer Sam Phillips recalled, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth10 June 1910
CityWhite Station, MS
CountryUnited States of America
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.
The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot.
I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.
I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.
I eat more chicken any man ever seen,
Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.
I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.
Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.
I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.
When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is...