- chicago blues, blues
- 34 min
- 12 tracks
- Chess
Moanin' in the Moonlight is a compilation album and the first album by American blues artist Howlin' Wolf, released by Chess Records in 1959. It contains songs recorded between 1951 and 1959 previously issued as singles, including one of his best-known, "Smokestack Lightning". Rolling Stone ranked it number 477 on its 2020 list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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Classical in form, character-led, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- A1Moanin’ at Midnight2:56
- A2How Many More Years2:43
- A3Smokestack Lightnin’3:08
- A4Baby, How Long2:55
- A5No Place to Go2:58
- A6All Night Boogie2:15
- B1Evil2:53
- B2I’m Leavin’ You3:01
- B3Moanin’ for My Baby2:51
- B4I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)2:52
- B5Forty‐Four2:50
- B6Somebody in My Home2:27
12 tracks, 34 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Howlin’ Wolf
- Label
- Chess
- Released
- 1959
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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