Friday, September 25, 2009

Howlin' Wolf 'Evil (Is Going On)'

Of course someone who learnt a lot from Charlie Patton was the Wolf - there's a certain carrying on a theme too as several of Wolf's tunes echo Patton's persona. Captain Beefheart did a perfect Wolf impersonation - the other day a Beefheart cover was on and it was spot on - I was almost taken in ...so I suppose you could follow a line from Patton to Beefheart but then as Patton practically invented blues as we know it he's probably in every damn guitar picker/singer of the 20th century.