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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- American singer and musician who earned his nickname for the baying cries that characterized his style of blues singing.
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Examples
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Among Chess' stars was bluesman Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, who set the place afire with the songs "Back Door Man," "Spoonful" and, of course, "Smokestack Lightning," many written and/or produced by Dixon -- and cornerstones for any self-respecting blues or rock band.
CNN.com 2011
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It has proven to be one of the great producers and repositories of American culture, producing writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty who spent most of her life in the country where the Anderson killing took place, and musicians of the caliber of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley.
Michael Deibert: What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America Michael Deibert 2011
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He said that at the Matrix he was just as likely to end up chatting with Howlin' Wolf as with blues fans such as Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane or Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead.
Aggressively Spanning the Blues Jim Fusilli 2012
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She shows her deep ties to the blues -- her earliest musical love along with the songs of Bob Dylan -- in some of the metaphors she chooses, her taste in blues covers, including Howlin' Wolf's, "I Asked For Water He Gave Me Gasoline," and her eye for the landscapes and culture of the South, the original home of the blues.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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Southside turned Lisa on to early Van Morrison and Howlin' Wolf, as well as literature.
Holly Cara Price: Lisa Lowell's Beautiful Behavior Holly Cara Price 2011
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I mean, obviously my musical tastes have expanded, but if I had to boil it down, it's still about Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker, Muddy, and Slim Harpo, and Jimmy Reed -- then the white guys just started interpreting it.
Gregory Weinkauf: Chimes of Freedom: Artists Talk Amnesty Gregory Weinkauf 2012
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It has proven to be one of the great producers and repositories of American culture, producing writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty who spent most of her life in the country where the Anderson killing took place, and musicians of the caliber of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley.
Michael Deibert: What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America Michael Deibert 2011
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It has proven to be one of the great producers and repositories of American culture, producing writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty who spent most of her life in the country where the Anderson killing took place, and musicians of the caliber of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley.
Michael Deibert: What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America Michael Deibert 2011
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It has proven to be one of the great producers and repositories of American culture, producing writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty who spent most of her life in the country where the Anderson killing took place, and musicians of the caliber of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley.
Michael Deibert: What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America Michael Deibert 2011
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Southside turned Lisa on to early Van Morrison and Howlin' Wolf, as well as literature.
Holly Cara Price: Lisa Lowell's Beautiful Behavior Holly Cara Price 2011
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