Featured Blues Artist For June 2017 – Howlin’ Wolf

We are starting a monthly Blues Artist of the Month feature.

As our first Blues Artist of the Month we are featuring Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1975), who was born 10 June 1910 near West Point, Clay County, Mississippi.

The Mississippi Blues Trail marker for Howlin’ Wolf is in West Point, Clay County, Mississippi.

Mississippi Blues Trail marker for Howlin' Wolf, West Point, Clay County, Mississippi
Mississippi Blues Trail marker for Howlin’ Wolf, West Point, Clay County, Mississippi

During the late 1920’s Howlin Wolf lived and worked on the Dockery Farm, the the Dockery Plantation, in Sunflower County, Mississippi.

 

The Dockery Farms entrance sign, Highway 8, Sunflower County, Mississippi
The Dockery Farms entrance sign, Highway 8, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Howlin’ Wolf made his first recordings for Sam Phillips at Memphis Recording Service (later Sun Recording Studio) in Memphis in 1951. Sam Phillips considered Howlin’ Wolf the most important artist he recorded.

The Memphis Recording Service, Sun Records and Sun Studio, 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee
The Memphis Recording Service, Sun Records and Sun Studio, 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee

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