Howlin' Wolf, "Smokestack Lightning", 1964

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Published on: August 3rd, 2015

The late great Howlin' Wolf (born 1910 as Chester Arthur Burnett in West Point, Mississippi) doing "Smokestack Lightning" at the 1964 American Folk Blues Festival, a show that toured Europe as an annually during the 1960s. Other performers included blues greats Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson.

 

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