Howlin' Wolf
1973-04-12 ::: New Orleans, Louisiana ::: Municipal Auditorium
1201 Saint Peter Street (Louis Armstrong Park) ::: M?-AUD (48kHz/24bit files)
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (4th year)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without EQ or NR ~*~

The Howlin' Wolf Blues Band ("The Wolf Gang") :::
01. ==band introduced==
02. ? (instrumental)
03. applause/bandmember introduction/song intro
04. Ode To Billie Joe (instrumental)

Howlin' Wolf and band :::
05. ==introduction of "the EVIL man, the main attraction"==
06. Howlin' For My Darling
07. ==applause/tuning==
08. ? ("People Been Talkin' All Over Town")
09. ==applause==
10. Little Red Rooster
11. ==applause==
12. Help Me
13. ==applause/audience==
14. Highway 49
15. ==applause/audience==
16. I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) -> Smokestack Lightning//

Total Time ::: 36:04

::: Non-hi-fi but serious atmosphere. Check samples for rejection, introspection, fascination, celebration.
::: Warts (YES!): Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. #01-02 fluctuating hiss&quality varies some thru tape. Some AUD talk. #06 had cut near start but sound clears after it. #07+16 some clapping. #16 cuts near end.
::: Show time 8:30PM & tix $5 advance or $6 at door. ~7,800 people in attendance. Likely sold out.
::: Concert Bill: Como Drum&Fife Corps//Mardi Gras Indian Band//Taj Mahal//Albert King//Howlin' Wolf.
::: POSTER at this crap site: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/5a/48/3d5a488467bb75b5fda1088f32c04304.jpg
::: Wolf''s 1st&only Jazz&Heritage Festival appearance. 1st part of set, unknown amount missing (15-20mins?).
::: Live '73 HW tapes: Denver SBD (Wolf sings 4) & AUD Cambridge boot (Wolf sings 4). Are there more?
::: Wolf sings 5 here (#06/08/10/14/16) & great his songs all different than other '73 tapes except for #11.
::: Superb database of artists all years of Jazz Fest at: https://jfdb.jazzandheritage.org/
::: Wolf's most recent LP was still "Live&Cookin' at Alice's Revisited" (rec.Jan.'72).
::: "The Back Door Wolf" final studio album not recorded 'til Aug.'73 & released fall or winter '73.
::: If you've never read an overview of HW's life, it's astonishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howlin'_Wolf
::: Municipal Aud. photos-likely this gig, but incorrectly dated: https://photos.com/art/howlin%27+wolf+1973
::: If you got an upgrade or longer copy, PLEASE upload! Don't know if other artists taped by this source.
::: MUST be more uncirculated Howlin' Wolf recordings out there. It would be GREAT to hear some...
::: They died 42 years apart, but all bandmembers are gone. Blues&rock wouldn't have been the same w/o them.
::: Amazing - S.P. Leary still doesn't have a Wikipedia page. One of you blues drummers should change that!
::: Howlin' Wolf took guitar lessons from Charley Patton - now that's class!
::: When someone says "Pass it down that way", one assumes they're not talkin' 'bout the Dr.Pepper they just bought.
::: This goes out in memory of Klaus Deuss, a guy who helped make a difference in recent blues years/blues matters.

Recording Information ::: unknown mono recorder/microphone -> master tape (likely cassette) -> unknown analog-only tape generations -> unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2021-02-21 ::: unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (48kHz/24bit wav file) -> computer -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, clap, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, #01-12 +7.0% & 13-17 +6.5% pitch (speed) fixes with single pass per segment after frequency analysis, NO equalisation or noise reduction] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> 48kHz/24bit flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. Freed 2021-02-xx. (NOTE: After some cross-channel patches, used only Lchan doubled up of this mono recording as it averaged 11-2 thousand kHz higher than R, hence small file sizes).

Line-up ::: Chester Arthur Burnett a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf (†R.I.P. 1976†) - vocals, harmonica // Eddie Shaw (†R.I.P. 2018†) – tenor saxophone, vocals // Emery "Detroit Junior" Williams, Jr. (†R.I.P. 2005†) – piano, vocals // Hubert Charles Sumlin (†R.I.P. 2011†) – electric guitar // Andrew "Blueblood" ("Andy") McMahon (†R.I.P. 1984†) – electric bass // S.P. Leary (†R.I.P. 1998†) – drums.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 711 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Sincere thanks to whomever uploads this for me. ::: Corrections welcome ::: This guy seriously changed my life at an early age, how 'bout yours? Even the bandmember introductions give me chills. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

Support the artist's family & blues artists of all sorts! The Howlin' Wolf Blues Society is still running, more info at www.wpnet.org/index.php/attractions/howlin_wolf

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!