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255:' "Stop and Listen Blues", and Charley Patton's "Moon Going Down". Wolf said the song was inspired by watching trains in the night: "We used to sit out in the country and see the trains go by, watch the sparks come out of the smokestack. That was smokestack lightning." In 1951, he recorded the song as "Crying at Daybreak". It contains the line "O-oh smokestack lightnin', shinin', just like gold, oh don't you hear me cryin'", similar to the Mississippi Sheiks' lyric "A-ah, smokestack lightnin', that bell shine just like gold, now don't you hear me talkin'". 36: 370:, all stamping their personal imprint on the song". Clapton identifies the Yardbirds' performances of the song as the group's most popular live number. They played it almost every show, and sometimes it could last up to 30 minutes. One version lasting 5:35 is included on the Yardbirds UK debut album, 333:... a pleasingly primitive and raw representation of the blues, pure and chant-like. Wolf truly sounds like a man in otherwise inexpressible agony, flailing for words." In 1999, the song received a 263:
At Chess' studio in Chicago in January 1956, Howlin' Wolf recorded "Smokestack Lightning". The song takes the form of "a propulsive, one-chord vamp, nominally in E major but with the flatted
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that make it sound like E minor", and lyrically it is "a pastiche of ancient blues lines and train references, timeless and evocative". Longtime Wolf guitarist
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in 1956. It became one of his most popular and influential songs. It is based on earlier blues songs, and numerous artists later interpreted it.
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in the early 1960s, British R&B groups regularly covered "Smokestack Lightning" in their live acts. Due to the song's renewed popularity,
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is credited with the distinctive guitar line. Howlin' Wolf sang and played harmonica, backed by pianist Hosea Lee Kennard, guitarists
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1963 and then on a single the following year, where it peaked at number 42 in the singles chart. It was later included on the albums
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Janovitz also identifies "Smokestack Lightning" as a blues standard "open to varied interpretation, covered by artists ranging from
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Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings" category and, in 2009, it was selected for permanent preservation in the
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Wolf had performed "Smokestack Lightning" in one form or another at least by the early 1930s, when he was performing with
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in small Delta communities. The song, described as "a hypnotic one-chord drone piece", draws on earlier blues, such as
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included it in its list of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". In 1985, the song was inducted into the
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magazine ranked it at number 291 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and the
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This article is about the Howlin' Wolf song. For other uses, see
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The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll
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Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues
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issued it in the UK on a moderately successful EP in late
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In 1956, "Smokestack Lightning" reached number 11 on the
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Blow-Up – The Original Sound Track Album
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Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
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United States National Recording Registry recordings
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Smokestack Lightning (disambiguation)

Single
Howlin' Wolf
B-side
Studio
Genre
Blues
Label
Chess
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Leonard Chess
Phil Chess
Willie Dixon
Howlin' Wolf
blues
Howlin' Wolf
Charley Patton
Tommy Johnson
Mississippi Sheiks
blue notes
Hubert Sumlin
Willie Johnson
Hubert Sumlin
Willie Dixon
Billboard R&B chart
R&B boom
Pye International Records
Moanin' in the Moonlight

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