Real Folk Blues
Blue ribbon material and performances point up the mighty Wolf's strong challenge to the Chicago blues hegemony of Muddy Waters in the 1950s and 1960s. Each of the dozen tracks anthologized here (in 1966), among them "Sittin' on Top of the World" and "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" (Wolf: 6'6", 300 lbs.), is a declaration of purpose and sensual appetite. Wolf's Chess box has everything but "Poor Boy" and "Nature."-- © Frank John Hadley 1993--From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD