Howlin’ Wolf

Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951–1960

Release date October 24, 2011

Tracklist

1
Moanin' At Midnight
2:53
2:53
2
How Many More Years (alternate)
2:46
2:46
3
How Many More Years
2:40
2:40
4
The Wolf Is at Your Door (A.K.A. Howlin' for My Baby)
2:56
2:56
5
California Boogie
2:57
2:57
6
Smile at Me
2:04
2:04
7
Howlin Wolf Boogie
2:37
2:37
8
California Blues #1
2:55
2:55
9
Look-A-Here Baby
2:08
2:08
10
Worried All the Time
3:06
3:06
11
Gettin' Old And Grey
2:36
2:36
12
Mr. Highway Man
2:46
2:46
13
Everybody's in the Mood
2:57
2:57
14
Color and Kind
3:09
3:09
15
Bluebird Blues
2:48
2:48
16
Saddle My Pony
2:32
2:32
17
Dorothy Mae (alternate take)
2:42
2:42
18
Dorothy Mae
2:35
2:35
19
Sweet Woman (a.k.a. I Got a Woman)
3:23
3:23
20
Well That’s Allright
3:00
3:00
21
Decoration Day
3:14
3:14
22
Oh Red
2:35
2:35
23
My Last Affair
2:56
2:56
24
I've Got a Woman
2:52
2:52
25
Just My Kind
2:57
2:57
26
Work for Your Money
2:16
2:16
27
I'm Not Joking
2:55
2:55
28
Mama Died and Left Me
3:11
3:11
29
All Night Boogie
2:11
2:11
30
I Love My Baby
2:55
2:55
31
Highway My Friend
2:15
2:15
32
Hold Onto Your Money
2:19
2:19
33
Streamline Woman
2:43
2:43
34
California Blues #2
2:20
2:20
35
Stay Here Til My Baby Comes Back
2:37
2:37
36
Crazy About You, Baby
2:19
2:19
37
No Place to Go (You Gonna Wreck My Life)
2:53
2:53
38
No Place to Go (You Gonna Wreck My Life)
2:34
2:34
39
Neighbors
2:43
2:43
40
I'm the Wolf
2:50
2:50
41
Rockin' Daddy
3:01
3:01
42
Baby How Long
2:54
2:54
43
Evil
2:53
2:53
44
I'll Be Around
3:11
3:11
45
Forty Four
2:48
2:48
46
Who Will Be Next
2:32
2:32
47
I Have a Little Girl
2:33
2:33
48
Come to Me Baby
2:25
2:25
49
Don't Mess With My Baby
2:37
2:37
50
Smokestack Lightnin’
3:06
3:06
51
You Can't Be Beat
3:09
3:09
52
I Asked for Water
2:49
2:49
53
So Glad
2:07
2:07
54
Break of Day
2:44
2:44
55
The Natchez Burning
2:09
2:09
56
Goin' Back Home
2:39
2:39
57
Blue Bird
3:31
3:31
58
My Life
3:01
3:01
59
You Ought to Know
3:20
3:20
60
Who's Been Talking
2:21
2:21
61
Tell Me
2:56
2:56
62
Somebody in My Home (alternate take)
2:34
2:34
63
Somebody in My Home
2:25
2:25
64
Nature (takes 1/4/6)
6:35
6:35
65
Nature (alternate take)
2:54
2:54
66
Nature
2:45
2:45
67
Walk to camp hall
2:49
2:49
68
Poor Boy (alternate take)
2:26
2:26
69
Poor Boy
2:33
2:33
70
My Baby Told Me
2:46
2:46
71
Sittin’ on Top of the World
2:32
2:32
72
I Didn't Know
2:26
2:26
73
I Better Go Now (Howlin’ Blues) (alternate)
3:11
3:11
74
Howlin' Blues
2:44
2:44
75
I Better Go Now (multiple takes)
4:23
4:23
76
I Didn't Know
2:34
2:34
77
Moanin' for My Baby
2:47
2:47
78
Moaning for My Baby (Midnight Blues) (takes 3 & 4)
4:49
4:49
79
I’m Leaving You (alt.tk)
2:43
2:43
80
I’m Leaving You (tks 7–10)
7:39
7:39
81
I'm Leavin' You
2:57
2:57
82
Can’t Put Me Out (alternate 1)
1:59
1:59
83
Can’t Put Me Out (alternate 2)
2:57
2:57
84
(You) Can’t Put Me Out
3:09
3:09
85
Change My Way
3:31
3:31
86
Getting Late
3:04
3:04
87
I’ve Been Abused (takes 4–12)
5:01
5:01
88
I've Been Abused
2:15
2:15
89
Howlin’ for My Baby (takes 1–7)
5:39
5:39
90
Howlin' for My Baby
2:30
2:30
91
Wolf in the Mood (instrumental)
5:48
5:48
92
My People's Gone
2:22
2:22
93
Mr. Airplane Man (takes 1 & 2)
6:07
6:07
94
Mr Airplane Man
2:43
2:43
95
Wang Dang Doodle
2:22
2:22
96
Back Door Man
2:48
2:48
97
Spoonful
2:42
2:42