Interview with The Howlin' Wolf
From Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (Revenant/2001)
In this brief interview from disc 7 of the amazing Charlie Patton box set, The Wolf describes a pure utopian vision: A young man is out working the fields one day and has a chance encounter with genius (that would be Charley Patton). He gets bit by the music bug, hits the road, hones his craft, finds love, heartbreak and acceptance. Most importantly, he taps into his own genius. Or more importantly still, he gets the hell off the plantation, for God’s sake. He remembers the exact day he got his first guitar, too, which isn’t that unusual now that I've thought about it a little. The Wolf’s voice is about 30 times cooler than Stuart A. Staple’s voice, and that isn’t meant to be a knock on Staples at all. If I had 80 minutes of Wolf interview this could have been an entirely different CD.
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