The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll
The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll is a 2003 documentary featured by Mufaro Berejena[1] about the life of blues legend Howlin' Wolf. It features much new and rare material, including Howlin' Wolf performing "How Many More Years?" on the TV musical show Shindig!, introduced by the Rolling Stones, drummer Sam Lay's home movies of stars of the Chicago Blues from the early 1960s, interviews with Howlin' Wolf's family, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold, Marshall Chess and many others, photographs of Howlin' Wolf and his band through their careers, and much else.
The film was directed by video biographer Don McGlynn, and produced by Joe Lauro, whose company, Historic Films Inc., supplied much of the footage for Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary series on the blues.[2]
References
External links
- The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll at IMDb
- Howlinwolf.com page on the film
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Howlin' Wolf
- 1968: The Super Super Blues Band With Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley
- 1969: The Howlin' Wolf Album
- 1971: Message to the Young
- 1971: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
- 1973: The Back Door Wolf
- 1972: Live and Cookin'
albums
- 1959: Moanin' in the Moonlight
- 1962: Howlin' Wolf
- 1962: Howling Wolf Sings the Blues
- 1965: The Real Folk Blues
- 1967: More Real Folk Blues
- 1997: His Best
- 1951: "How Many More Years"
- "Moanin' at Midnight
- 1954: "Forty-Four"
- "Evil"
- 1956: "Smokestack Lightning"
- 1957: "Sitting on Top of the World"
- "Poor Boy"
- 1960: "Wang Dang Doodle"
- "Back Door Man"
- "Spoonful"
- 1961: "I Ain't Superstitious"
- 1962: "Little Red Rooster"
- "Goin' Down Slow"
- 1964: "My Country Sugar Mama"
- "Killing Floor"
- 2003: The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll
- Ike Turner
- Willie Johnson
- Pat Hare
- Jody Williams
- Hubert Sumlin
- Willie Dixon
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