Episode #152 Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf Lesson

In this episode we're looking at the blues classic Smokestack Lightning! This is a great example of a 'one riff song' its totally hypnotic to play and has a great feel and groove to it. 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 blue notes that make it sound like E minor", and lyrically it is "a pastiche of ancient blues lines and train referenc...