PORTSMOUTH — Howling Wolf Taqueria, a Salem, Massachusetts, Mexican restaurant and bar, is expanding into downtown Portsmouth. The restaurant will take over the beloved former Book & Bar spot within ...

Chess Records’ Acoustic Sounds Series is set to release Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘The Real Folk Blues’ albums on ...

Few blues musicians who traveled from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago could have imagined how profoundly their songs would ...

Bad As Me and the new 4 cd set of Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976). It’s called Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters. The two singers, though separated by a ...

Director Don McGlynn has been in the business of making heartfelt, low-budget documentaries of important but marginalized musicians for 20 years now. Performers such as Art Pepper, Charles Mingus and ...

“The Red Rooster” is track nine on disc one. Listen to it first, because it’s the key to this re-issue. On it, Howlin’ Wolf schools Eric Clapton on how to play the blues. As in, “No man, do it this ...