Howlin' Wolf was BOTD in 1910 in White Station, Mississippi. Born Chester Arthur Burnett, something spooked young Chester, sending him howling upstairs, and he was given the nickname of Howlin' Wolf by his family.

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In 1952, Wolf drove to Chicago to join Chess Records,  bringing the music of the Mississippi Delta to Chicago. The current album The Super Super Blues Band is a collaboration between Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, & Bo Diddley, a meeting of blues titan.

Wolf's final live performance was in Nov 1975 at the Chicago Amphitheater, sharing the bill with guitar greats B.B. King and Albert King. Suffering from kidney disease requiring dialysis, Wolf died in Jan 1976. Without the blues there would be no rock and roll. And Howlin' Wolf was the blues.
 

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