Moanin' at Midnight The Life and Times of

This new and revised edition is full of harrowing anecdotes about legendary Howlin' Wolf's early years, entertaining stories about his decades at the top, and never-before-seen photographs of the artist onstage.

James Segrest has written for Blues Access magazine and cowrote the liner notes for the Grammy-nominated album A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf. He lives in Alabama.

Mark Hoffman has written for Blues Access, Living Blues, and Blues to Do magazines and narrated the prizewinning film The Howlin' Wolf Story. He lives on an island near Seattle.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xiii

Poor Boy

3

(10)

Down in the Bottom

13

(20)

Saddle My Pony

33

(17)

How Many More Years

50

(12)

House Rockin' Boogie

62

(21)

I'm the Wolf

83

(17)

Smokestack Lightnin'

100

(31)

Better Go Now

131

(21)

Howlin' for My Darling

152

(20)

Three Hundred Pounds of Joy

172

(24)

Sittin' on Top of the World

196

(38)

Change My Way

234

(43)

Goin' Down Slow

277

(41)

Epilogue: Tail Dragger

318

(6)

Notes

324

(39)

Discography

363

(3)

Sessionography

366

(11)

Bibliography

377

(10)

Index

387

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Moanin' at Midnight The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf

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