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Howlin' Wolf - A Proper Introduction to Howlin' Wolf: Memphis Days

Primary Artist
Howlin' Wolf
Album Title
A Proper Introduction to Howlin' Wolf: Memphis Days
Release Date
April 6, 2004 
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Review by Thom Jurek
The single disc, 25-track Proper Introduction to Howlin' Wolf anthology traces, in condensed form, Howlin' Wolf's seminal recordings at Sun Studios in Memphis. While other compilations have focused on exhaustively presenting all of the recordings Wolf did for Sun and Chess, and other single discs have picked one label or the other, Proper has decided to combine them in an idiosyncratic and wonderfully listenable way. These cuts are not sequenced chronologically, and the material here is mixed between labels, offering a brilliant cross-section of the material he cut during his seminal early years in the 1950s. Read More
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