MINT SHRINK 1969 ORIG = FUZZ BLUES SOUL PSYCH GROWLER HOWLIN' WOLF = TOP CAT

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143

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         MINT CLEAN 1969 FUZZY SOUL PSYCH BLUES GRIT!!!

                          ALL MINT!

                  HOWLIN' WOLF

 THE HOWLIN' WOLF ALBUM   

                            USA -   CADET CONCEPT (LPS 319)

ARCHIVE COPY! .......FINAL COLLECTION COPY!

............STILL IN FACTORY SHRINK WAPPER!

RARE and ALL MINT CLEAN....Original 1969 first pressing vinyl with the original printed CHESS RECORDS inner sleeve... Just listen to all the guitar wah-wah and fuzz tones !

This album benefits in the stereo format with all the speaker separation going on...psychedelic fuzzed blues....

Though Electric Mud gets all the attention, we've always felt that this session, featuring virtually the same backing group, was the stronger set. The simple declaration on the front intrigues us, “why wouldn’t Howlin’ Wolf like this record?” This blues jammer attempts to “update” the venerable Wolf with some of the most righteous Black psychedelic blues music ever laid down.

As soon as you drop the needle on “Spoonful” you immediately understand why Howlin’ Wolf (whose voice on this record decries the “odd” sounds of the electric guitar which, given that it’s 1968 when it’s recorded, means “strange” if you were wondering) and virtually ever single blues purist since 1969 has hated this record ...while SPOONFUL is just lowdown, funkatised blues-rock at its stankiest... The Wolf howls like always, with that big, crackling voice of his, and guitarist Pete Cosey and drummer Morgan Jennings put in that muddied, electrified, rockin' psych-soul sound...wow!

The fuzz guitar comes on especially strong on a funked-up rendition of "Tail Dagger" and it gets even greasier on "Smokestack Lightnin'", which cooks up a groove so down low and in-the-pocket it's insane...but we'll check on that in a minute.... You also can immediately understand how after 40+ years so many ears would find this sound completely thrilling. From an objective point of view, it doesn’t hold up to Wolf’s seminal recordings, but who cares! This record is so unbelievably bluesy & funky, it can’t help but be an underground classic. With Fuzzy, wah-wah guitars (3-4 guitars on each track!), poppin’ drums, freaky flute and even some amplified Eddie Harris soundin’ reeds, this was a match made in heaven tomany an ear...As good as the upbeat and wilder tracks like “Evil,” “Spoonful” and “Taildragger” sound, the best realized tracks seem to be the ones that have a slower tempo, including “Built For Comfort,” “Smokestack Lightning,” “Three Hundred Pounds of Joy,” and “Back Door Man” with the first being one of our all-time favorites. And don't forget the downright eerie “Moanin’ At Midnight,” because it best represents the otherworldly, slightly ominous feeling of Howlin’ Wolf’s music... and it finds a way to incorporate the sitar - a staple of the hippest psychedelic bands around at the time -- a lurching, droning, one-chorded groove featuring some deep down Mississippah harmonica wailings. But the smelly groove juice of the funk-in-motion is back for a lazy, sleazed, cruisin' take on "Built for Comfort '...as noted above, Smokestack Lightning' has a funkafied rolling groove. The Wolf's voice, always the ultimate conveyor of raw power, sounds like a dirty gravel road running through the deepest swamp in the darkest jungle. "The Red Rooster" is barely recognizable; riding a busy beat and a swampy guitar groove, it drones on relentlessly. The same stutter steppin' rhythm propels "Evil", turning it into a strange, trippy, wah wah-infested rocker. But the most intrictate rhythmic pattern is reserved for "Down in the Bottom", with its busy drums and pumping bass.

And oh, by the way, dig the sound of the drums on this record. So crisp, so tight, so very heavy....Maybe Howlin' Wolf didn't like this record, but it holds up remarkably well and should surprise the faintest doubter... for those into fuzzed blues and psych-funk, this is a pretty sweet smelling serving.

CONDITION: The cover: snow white....completely solid... all tight and clean MINT still in original factory shrink wrapper ...a great example of a 43+ year old cover in careful hands...no split seams, no bends, no writing...both sides and all seams are in collection worthy level, including back cover too...Final collection copy

The vinyl: all shiny smooth and clear over both sides...TOP CLEAN MINT looks and plays TOPS! With clean Cadet labels

Original first pressing 

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