On almost every hit, Hi Records used the same rhythm section, Three brothers, Teenie, Lerow & Charles on guitar, bass & organ & drummer Howard Grimes.

Though Howlin’ Wolf had a huge hit with his 1956 song “Smokestack Lightnin’”, he said he’d been playing it since the 1930s, when he and Charley Patton (father of the blues) performed in small Mississippi Delta towns.

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