Howlin Wolf - The London Howlin Wolf Sessions Deluxe Edition 2CD (2003) APE

Howlin Wolf - The London Howlin Wolf Sessions Deluxe Edition 2CD (2003) APE


The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions is an album by blues musician Howlin' Wolf, released in the summer of 1971 on Chess Records, catalogue CH 60008 (Rolling Stones Records in Britain). It was one of the first of the super session blues albums, setting a blues master among famous musicians from the second generation of rock and roll, in this case Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman. It peaked at #79 on the Billboard 200.

On March 4, 2003, the current owner of the Chess catalogue Universal Music Group released a two-disc Deluxe Edition of the London Sessions. Included as bonus tracks on the first disc were three performances initially released on Chess CH 60026 in February 1974, London Revisited. The second disc featured outtakes and different mixes.

Track List

Disc One - The Original Album - The Original Mix (1970)

1. Rockin 'Daddy
2. I Ain't Superstitious
3. Sittin 'on Top of The World
4. Worried About My Baby
5. What a Woman!
6. Poor Boy
7. Built for Comfort
8. Who's Been Talkin '
9. The Red Rooster (False start and dialog)
10. The Red Rooster
11. Do The Do
12. 49 Highway
13. Wang Dang Doodle
Bonus Tracks From London Revisited - (Newly remixed from the multi-Sessions Tracks)
14. Goin 'Down Slow
15. Killing Floor
16. I Want to Have A Word With You

Disc Two

1. Worried About My Baby (Rehearsal take)
2. The Red Rooster (Alternate mix with alternate piano)
3. What a Woman! A / K / A Commit a Crime (alternate take)
4. Who's Been Talkin '(Alternate take with false start & dialog)
5. Worried About My Baby (Alternate take)
6. I Ain't Superstitious (Alternate take)
7. Highway 49 (Alternate take)
8. Do The Do (Extended alternate take)
9. Poor Boy (Alternate lyrics / mix)
10. I Ain't Superstitious (Alternate mix)
11. What a Woman! AKA Commit a Crime (alternate mix with organ overdub)
12. Rockin 'Daddy (Alternate mix)

Note (CD 2):
Tracks 1 through 8 are newly remixed from the sessions multi-tracks.
Tracks 9 through 12 are from the original 1970 mixdown sessions

Media Info

Country : EU
Genre : Blues
Year : 2003
Format : APE (image +. cue)
Bitrate : lossless