“Jazz speaks for life. The blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment you will realized that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival.

Howlin’ Wolf was actually partially responsible for the founding of Sun Records in 1952. After founder Sam Phillips had to send Wolf to Chess Records in Chicago because he didn’t have his own label, he started Sun Records — and changed music forever.

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