absolutely incredible. This is the best video of The Wolf. The videography is not bad either, we get a lot of close-ups to take a gander at that famous skin of his.
The Wolf crushes all written word, machines, and even rock. The Wolf shows that he can even come back from the dead and crush you. I believe that is Hubert Sumlin on guitar and it may be Willie Dixon on keys - if it weren't for these folks, music would be very different.
It's just not fair is it? People forty, fifty years ago got musicians like, Howlin' Wolf, Fred McDowell, John Lee Hooker and all those other great Blues artists. Who do I get as a young man? Justin Bieber, N-Dubz, and countless other anonymous clones.
Quit looking for The Biebs to satisfy, check out The Black Keys, R.L. Burnside, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ... so many more, man. There is only one Wolf, though.
@Dieselcrunch there is still a great blues scene in Cincinnati . People should check it out if they truly love the blues . The Wolf died long ago but his spirit and the blues lives on in Cincinnati
He's playing with his physicality all the time in other footage, like a man born to act... so he's probably well capable of playing a good drunk.. or a bad one... it fits perfectly with the song... credit him with the brains to devise this incredible little show, i.e. this is an artist working his bollocks off, not some old drunkard. Not that he'll be that bothered about it either way now.
@arthurbissolotti Ummm...drunk? I read and heard that he wouldnt allow his band to drink before any gig but after and that included himself. Maybe I read wrong or heard wrong after serveral review. Oh well.
@cedricleecason Yeah, you are probably right, he was very professional, however you have to agree with me, he seems to be on something....................... hell, we'll never know man!!!!
@maxitismakedon That's true! Another thing that makes me laugh is that a lot music was dubbed the "devil's music". Today most of the people thinks this name should go with all the brutal kind of heavy metal music, played by ridiculous people dressed like idiots with spikes, bones, fake blood and shit, trying to look and sound mean...then you think about a man like Howlin' Wolf, who surely did not care about looking mean and evil, but he could have scared them silly kids to death...
@atomicguitar123 People that play the blues look like nobody. That's what makes the blues so damn great it's played by people that have nothing and look the part
What do you mean had nothing? The Wolf was very successful. He was a smart businessman and made a lot of money. He was proud of that. It's a stereotype that these black musicians weren't able to make any money.
@ktrfeb23 Ok let me rephrase it he came from nothing EXCUSE ME. Most blues musicians came from hard lives, that's why they play the blues so well and I WASN'T referring to his skin color EVEN though the blues is prominently black . Ever heard of Steve Ray Vaughn? He's white or Johnny Lange or even better yet Eric Clapton
Ruth Brown was fuckin huge in the 50's but bad business deals fucked her over. She built Atlantic Records but got absolutely nothing from it.
@ktrfeb23 so before you run your fuckin mouth think first cause your makin me out to be a fuckin racist towards blacks musicians and that aint the case OK
I'm making you out to be somebody who don't know what you're talking about and making this great musician out to be just another stereotype. You used the word racist. The word I would use is ignorant. Are you happier with that?
Who gives a shit. I wish I was drunk right now.
pumpnethyl 1 month ago
@pumpnethyl - well...get a job-work-buy booze....done.
optionout 1 month ago
only hwy i've ever seen that runs north,south,east and west.
1967cbd 2 months ago
massive,, yes , he was stone cold sober,, a genius folks...
jamesraymondsmith 2 months ago
The wolf didn't drink before his shows.
alonda27 2 months ago
of course he was drunk i mean hes a bluesman aint he???
diegocostarica21 3 months ago
wow! a lot of uptight comments! whats the deal with so much anger? get a life & enjoy the music!
1966PIK 4 months ago 2
i take 49 everyday ...the longest road in mississippi
presidential1985 5 months ago
this is why the USA is king
TheInboil 7 months ago
@TheInboil im not a "native american" but th blues was is US made, n proud
pcthirtyone1986 5 days ago
that goddamn woman got me walkin'
TheFenderplecre 8 months ago
Da Wolf didn't drink before shows. Check out his biography. Had the hardest life of any bluesman: his MAMA kicked him out before his teen years!
revypoo 8 months ago
I don't know. He does have that drunk look. And the timing between his stare and the mention of his appreciation seemed a bit off too..
spoolproductions 8 months ago in playlist fuck you blues
Wolf+Hubert=Magic!
MrRGanja 10 months ago
This is amazing
Kawazanga 10 months ago
Love Howlin ripped or not this is the real shit.
monktrane325 10 months ago
I love howlin' but the man is ripped here and I still love him.
monktrane325 10 months ago
@monktrane325
What do you mean ripped?
He was always sober, if that's what you mean. That's why he was rich and his peers weren't.
ktrfeb23 9 months ago 3
absolutely incredible. This is the best video of The Wolf. The videography is not bad either, we get a lot of close-ups to take a gander at that famous skin of his.
odalanizi 10 months ago
i fuckn love it!!
brianKRAZY1 10 months ago
Ok nobody can deny that he is a legend but he is drunk as a skunk =)
dobikle 10 months ago
Ok nobody can deny that he is a legend but he is drunk as a skunk =)
dobikle 10 months ago
The Wolf was a 100%, blood and guts badass. That's all.
dgbxny66 11 months ago
The Wolf crushes all written word, machines, and even rock. The Wolf shows that he can even come back from the dead and crush you. I believe that is Hubert Sumlin on guitar and it may be Willie Dixon on keys - if it weren't for these folks, music would be very different.
Dieselcrunch 11 months ago
Wolf is not drunk, he is in total control of the stage.
SmokindaBlues 1 year ago
The Wolf is the BLUES.
walkindead7 1 year ago
The master!
blusismylife 1 year ago
he looks younger here than he did in 1965
rbardell 1 year ago
I'm going to make my unborn child listen to this shit.
RankAndFileGuy 1 year ago
@RankAndFileGuy Hope you got a good one?Just discovering it and being "re-born".
ssballs 11 months ago
none better HOWLIN
colu1492 1 year ago
This song is not by howlin wolf. It's by a singer called the tail dragon-please edit title.
Thanksx
redface626 1 year ago
It's just not fair is it? People forty, fifty years ago got musicians like, Howlin' Wolf, Fred McDowell, John Lee Hooker and all those other great Blues artists. Who do I get as a young man? Justin Bieber, N-Dubz, and countless other anonymous clones.
Unpackthat 1 year ago 5
@Unpackthat you should check out Blind Boy Paxton. i share your grief and i find he is the closest thing to a real blues player we have today.
CanadianFolkBlues 1 year ago
@Unpackthat Wolf will always be here little brother... and so will Muddy
kyleafornia 1 year ago
@Unpackthat
Quit looking for The Biebs to satisfy, check out The Black Keys, R.L. Burnside, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ... so many more, man. There is only one Wolf, though.
Dieselcrunch 11 months ago
@Dieselcrunch there is still a great blues scene in Cincinnati . People should check it out if they truly love the blues . The Wolf died long ago but his spirit and the blues lives on in Cincinnati
Cincinnatus1869 10 months ago
Drunk or not the Wolf is the best entertainer of all the Blues man and most fun to watch. He's the REAL DEAL.
HoboGus 1 year ago 2
You can keep on watching him sing,and feel the music with your eyes!
SupersonicMojoJojo 1 year ago
What a rhythm section
samadjhi 1 year ago
He's playing with his physicality all the time in other footage, like a man born to act... so he's probably well capable of playing a good drunk.. or a bad one... it fits perfectly with the song... credit him with the brains to devise this incredible little show, i.e. this is an artist working his bollocks off, not some old drunkard. Not that he'll be that bothered about it either way now.
MangoZapp 1 year ago 2
I doubt he's drunk, Wolf liked to clown around like that when he had a crowd... check out the live at Newport.
playon51 1 year ago
HOWLIN at it's best!
stanleysoldman 1 year ago
Listen to that tone! Not many notes played by Wolf on harp, but what tone. He didnt need many notes to play. I love his tone!!
cedricleecason 1 year ago
he's just drunk as a skunk, the great Chester Arthur Bernet AKA Howlin' Wolf
arthurbissolotti 1 year ago
@arthurbissolotti Ummm...drunk? I read and heard that he wouldnt allow his band to drink before any gig but after and that included himself. Maybe I read wrong or heard wrong after serveral review. Oh well.
cedricleecason 1 year ago
@cedricleecason Yeah, you are probably right, he was very professional, however you have to agree with me, he seems to be on something....................... hell, we'll never know man!!!!
arthurbissolotti 1 year ago
@arthurbissolotti I think you're confusing excitement and enthusiasm for narcotics
busessuck1 11 months ago
When the Wolf howls, everything stops in the forest and listen to overtake.
YoGroucho 1 year ago
You can tell he must have been drinking but ol' tail dragger got it though.
dunkman357 1 year ago
wolf was on full in this video
soulexperence 1 year ago
What a great clip! Can almost forgive the bass player for being so out of tune!!!
rockindillo 1 year ago
Let's go ,Wolf, I got shotgun. Pedal to the metal, bluesman
staticviewer 1 year ago
"you got the right tail dragger tonight"
classic Wolf !!
379groundpounder 1 year ago
The big Eazy! The Only Real Blues in The World . Howlin-Wolf ! ! !
airbrush504 1 year ago
A lesson to all youngsters out there.
maxitismakedon 2 years ago
@maxitismakedon That's true! Another thing that makes me laugh is that a lot music was dubbed the "devil's music". Today most of the people thinks this name should go with all the brutal kind of heavy metal music, played by ridiculous people dressed like idiots with spikes, bones, fake blood and shit, trying to look and sound mean...then you think about a man like Howlin' Wolf, who surely did not care about looking mean and evil, but he could have scared them silly kids to death...
Lukeblueslover 1 year ago 4
Classic wolf footage when he just gettin a small taste of the crossover period during the late 60's and early 70's. Classic.
BluesGeek 2 years ago
Blues at it's finest.
hootinouts 2 years ago
this guy looks creepy... this what i call blues man...
aloysibaik 2 years ago 23
This has been flagged as spam show
Makes me feel so happy...thanks !
1raymio 2 years ago
Once again , 100% brilliant
jj10princess 2 years ago 3
big bad woooooooof huffin n' puffin the blues what a character... 4:09... 7:40 haha
thesoftparade3 2 years ago 3
My God what a Showman .This is the Real SHIT
atomicguitar123 2 years ago 28
@atomicguitar123 People that play the blues look like nobody. That's what makes the blues so damn great it's played by people that have nothing and look the part
freebird1974 10 months ago
@freebird1974
What do you mean had nothing? The Wolf was very successful. He was a smart businessman and made a lot of money. He was proud of that. It's a stereotype that these black musicians weren't able to make any money.
ktrfeb23 9 months ago
@ktrfeb23 Ok let me rephrase it he came from nothing EXCUSE ME. Most blues musicians came from hard lives, that's why they play the blues so well and I WASN'T referring to his skin color EVEN though the blues is prominently black . Ever heard of Steve Ray Vaughn? He's white or Johnny Lange or even better yet Eric Clapton
Ruth Brown was fuckin huge in the 50's but bad business deals fucked her over. She built Atlantic Records but got absolutely nothing from it.
freebird1974 8 months ago
@ktrfeb23 so before you run your fuckin mouth think first cause your makin me out to be a fuckin racist towards blacks musicians and that aint the case OK
freebird1974 8 months ago
@freebird1974
I'm making you out to be somebody who don't know what you're talking about and making this great musician out to be just another stereotype. You used the word racist. The word I would use is ignorant. Are you happier with that?
ktrfeb23 8 months ago
► Hi. It came from Howlin Wolf: In Concert 1970 ~ Howlin Wolf (DVD - Aug 27, 2007)
TejanoChimbo 3 years ago 3
where was this taken from?
gilrchibk 3 years ago