Howlin' Wolf

[ hou-lin ]

noun

1. Chester Arthur Burnett, 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.

Howlin' Wolf

/ ˈhaʊlɪn /

noun

1. Howlin' Wolf19101976MUSMUSIC: blues singerMUSIC: songwriter real name Chester Burnett. 1910–76, US blues singer and songwriter

Example Sentences

Initially, the Stones were a cover band, scoring hits with scuffed-up versions of Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away and Howlin' Wolf's Little Red Rooster.

From BBC

On Friday and Saturday nights, after his shift as a busboy ended at Ah Fong in Encino, Yamazaki would hop in his 1954 Chevy Bel Air and head to the Ash Grove, the celebrated roots music venue on Melrose Avenue, and take in such musicians as Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.

From Los Angeles Times

The album will be their first since 2016's Blue & Lonesome, which featured covers of the songs by Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf that first inspired them to form a band in the 1960s.

From BBC

Like Dylan, Robertson was a self-taught musicologist and storyteller who absorbed everything American from the novels of William Faulkner to the scorching blues of Howlin’ Wolf to the gospel harmonies of the Swan Silvertones.

From Seattle Times

On this song from the compilation “Change My Way,” the blues great Howlin’ Wolf implores Mr. Airplane Man to fly down to Jackson and deliver an urgent message to his baby: “Aahhhheeeeeee, ahhhehehehe!”

From New York Times