In one of my "Music History" courses in college, a professor asked us to compare this song to "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Both are considered essential to Rock music, both with genre defining singers, who also happened to have completely self destructive personalities. But what struck me more than anything was the choice of Howlin' Wolf. Why not Muddy or Sonny Boy Williamson? Or a original delta bluesman like Robert Johnson or Charlie Patton? Then I realized, for ever band in the 90s that tried to sound like Nirvana, there was a band in the 60s that tried to sound like Howlin' Wolf. Except instead of Puddle of Mudd they were The Rolling Stones.
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