[Harp-L] RE: Checkin' Up On My Baby Vocals/Harp?

[tom ball <havaball@xxxxxxx>]

> Bill writes:
> I have a Chess Records 50th Anniversary Collection CD "Sonny Boy
> Williamson: His Best". It has a studio track from The Real Folk Blues LP
> (1960) "Checkin' Up On My Baby" which sounds just like Howlin' Wolf
> singing, but the credits for this song don't indicate that. The harp
> playing is also great. So does anyone know if this is Wolf or SBWII
> imitating him (doubtful)? And if it is Wolf (likely), is that SBWII
accompanying him on the harp (likely)?
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It's Sonny Boy, with Otis Spann on piano, Eddie King & Luther Tucker 
on guitars, Willie Dixon on bass, Fred Below on drums.  Recorded 
April 14, 1960.
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BBQ Bob added:
> I have this on vinyl and it definitely IS Rice Miller himself, as he also
> cut another tune (can't recall the name of it at the moment) where he also
> does a vocal impersonation of Howlin' Wolf, but doesn't imitate the Wolf
harp sound, which needs a loud, very slow, nasty vibrato to do the job right.
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That would be the song "Like Wolf," from Feb 8, 1957.

cheers ta all,

Tom Ball
Santa Barbara