Fwd: [Harp-L] Howling Wolf

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Wolf was a powerful and tasty, though simple, harp player. he 
learned to play from his brother in law, Sonny Boy II.

As to his voice, he had at least three dramatically different vocal 
sounds in addition to his wolf howl, all of which which he used to 
great effect. There was the pinched, nasal sound, the hollow sound 
that seemed to be coming out an airshaft, and the flat out gravelly 
belt. Listen to his recordings of "Evil" and "How Many More Years" 
for a demonstration.

In his day he was as big as Muddy Waters and they had a rivalry going.

Do you know what network that's on? The channel numbers in my area 
are probably different.

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Joe and Cass Leone 
<leone@xxxx> wrote:

Anyone see the 90 min. profile on Howling (upper premium channel 
#168)? 
While predominately known as a singer/guit. player, he also did some 
harp. Supposedly being very big in the Chicago area in the late 40s 
to 
early 60s, I never followed him at the time because I was in "Blue 
Note" mode. Besides, he had a voice roughly equivalent to chalk 
screeching on a blackboard. I felt this was roughly analogous to 
having 
long hatpins stabbed into my ear drums. :)

  formerly known as smo-joe

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