{"id":19,"date":"2010-01-11T23:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-07-31T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T21:02:00","slug":"the-howlin%e2%80%99-wolf-story-2003-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"The Howlin\u2019 Wolf Story (2003) [DVD]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0569469\/\">Don McGlynn<\/a>\u2019s <a title=\"Credits including interview subjects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0465500\/combined\"><em>The Howlin\u2019 Wolf Story<\/em><\/a> (2003), which I saw on DVD. I think it\u2019s one of the best blues documentaries I\u2019ve seen. It\u2019s a typical mix of archival footage and photos with contemporary talking heads interviews. It gives an overview of Wolf&#8217;s life and music. One of its strengths is that several songs are heard in entirety. Some are recordings behind a montage of images. The best segments are from a 1966 performance of Wolf with <a title=\"Sumlin's home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubertsumlinblues.com\/\">Hubert Sumlin<\/a>, his lead guitarist, and others. There are also some clips of drummer Sam Lay\u2019s home movies of Wolf and the band at Silvio\u2019s Lounge in Chicago (now a vacant lot). One really gets a sense of what he might have been like as a performer. I would give almost anything to have seen him perform before his death in 1976.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Born:  Chester Arthur Burnett on Jun 10, 1910 in West Point, MS. Died: Jan 10, 1976 in Hines, IL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howlinwolf.com\/\">Howlin&#8217; Wolf <\/a>is one of my blues heroes and mentors. While he&#8217;s not as well known, perhaps, as Muddy Waters, he&#8217;s of equal stature in his importance to the blues and his influence on later music, including rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed Don McGlynn\u2019s The Howlin\u2019 Wolf Story (2003), which I saw on DVD. I think it\u2019s one of the best blues documentaries I\u2019ve seen. It\u2019s a typical mix of archival footage and photos with contemporary talking heads interviews. It gives an overview of Wolf&#8217;s life and music. One of its strengths is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,20,22],"tags":[25,182,23,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}