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Howlin' Wolf

American  
[hou-lin] / ˈhaʊ lɪn /

noun

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


Howlin' Wolf British  
/ ˈhaʊlɪn /

noun

  1. real name Chester Burnett. 1910–76, US blues singer and songwriter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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For Delta Slim, Lindo read books on the blues, listened to Son House, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and immersed himself in the culture of the Mississippi Delta.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2026

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 Sep. 5, 2023

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 Aug. 9, 2023

“When I was a kid, my heroes were 60-year-old Black men — Bukka White, Howlin’ Wolf.

From New York Times Aug. 22, 2022

They do Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters and lots of their own songs, mostly hard rock.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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