Friday Music

This Chicago blues singer, harmonica virtuoso and guitar player was born in Mississippi as Chester Arthur Burnett.  When his producer Sam Phillips first heard him he was said to say:  This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.   Phillips was spot-on as this is the guy who brought blues mainstream to America,

Several of his songs, including Smokestack Lightnin', Killing Floor and Spoonful, have become blues standards.  

Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 54 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.  This clip from the teeny bopper TV program Shindig is awesome.  He’s 55 years old and still has the moves.  What’s so cool about this short-take is you’ve got the Stones, Billy Preston tickling the ivories and  the incomparable Darlene Love sitting in the back! 

Howlin' Wolf…..