This is a great documentary. It tells the story of one of the most influential of all the Chess Blues stars through interviews with family and Bluesmen like Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold and Jody Williams. There's not a huge amount of archive material but what is there is worth the admission - Sam Lay's home movies showing Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and the Wolf fooling around in a club were a treat in colour, alongside clips of Son House and Bukka White. Thw Wolf clips are there to enjoy and they are of course, phenomenal. It is a warm hearted film - particularly pleasing to see Hubert Sumlin play some of his legendary licks - a little scary hearing Wolf tell Son House in one clip he'd wasted his life.
Howlin' Wolf site
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
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