A rare video of Howlin’ Wolf performing “Howlin’ For My Darlin’” in Warsaw, Poland, 1964 | Blues Compartido

From Howlin’ Wolf’s 1971 live blues performance at Big Duke’s Flamingo in Chicago. Wolf's music never lost its primal quality: some of his best songs, such as ''Smokestack Lightning,'' ''Commit a Crime'' and ''I Asked for Water, but She Gave Me Gasoline,'' are trancelike one-chord vamps reaching back to African-American music's pre-Western roots. ''That's something I got from the old music,'' he said. But this was a deliberate, even stubborn, artistic choice, as much as Wolf tried to commodify h

1M views · 63K reactions | Originally written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf in 1960, “Back Door Man” became a Blues-soaked staple of The Doors’ early live sets. Featured on their 1967 debut album, the band’s version turned the Chicago Blues classic into a raw, electrified performance. #TheDoors | The Doors | Facebook