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

Why do wolves howl? Howling may be heard during the day or at night, it's not a behavior directed at the moon. Instead it's used as a social rally, a hail to hunt or as a territorial expression. Did you know that wolves have different howls that can be heard 6-7 miles away? A howl can also help a lost wolf find its way home. A wolf separated from it's pack uses a lonesome howl, a shortened call that rises in pitch, if answered the wolf then responds with deep, even howls to inform the pack of it