Nobody did the blues quite like Howlin’ Wolf. He was an incredible electric Chicago blues artist, with a powerful voice, excellent harmonica skills, and legendary prowess with the electric guitar. He ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Howie Kaplan, proprietor of Warehouse District entertainment venue the Howlin’ Wolf, thought back to the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He ...

Howie Kaplan, who both owns The Howlin' Wolf club and manages the Rebirth Brass Band, introduced the group at the early show at his Warehouse District club Friday. On a night when both Howlin' Wolf ...

From his locked room, Chester Burnett could hear the trains rattling up the tracks, one every half hour. They reminded him of home, back on Dockery Plantation, when he played on the porches of old ...

Today, as the dawn of the two-decade mark of Deadeye Dick’s debut single approaches, the boys in the band have decided to revive the long since dormant damsel at a reunion show at the Howlin’ Wolf on ...

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 ...

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 ...

When members of Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and The Pogues came together for a new project, one thing remained blatantly apparent, their devotion to storytelling through a folk-rock lens. “We ...

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has played a role in some of the most iconic rock albums of all time, but one 2005 ...

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