''Message to the Young'' is the eighth album by blues musician

Howlin' Wolf Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chica ...

released by

Chess Records Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock an ...

in 1971.

Reception

Cash McCall ''Cash McCall'' is a 1960 American romantic drama film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Henry Blanke, directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring James Garner and Natalie Wood. The film's screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee and Marion Ha ...

stated "I did an album on Howlin’ Wolf that didn't work out too well, I didn't know the man couldn't read and that was ''Message To The Young''. I produced that and Wolf didn't have any respect for me, as I was so young".

Track listing

All compositions by Sarah Lewis and Sonny Thompson except where noted # "If I Were a Bird" ( Morris Dollison) – 4:34 # "I Smell a Rat" – 2:15 # "Miss James" – 3:27 # "Message to the Young" (Thompson, Ralph Bass) – 5:50 # "She's Looking Good" (Roger Collins) – 2:40 # "Just As Long" – 3:42 # "Romance Without Finance" – 3:22 # "Turn Me On" – 4:32

Personnel

– vocals, harmonica *

Sonny Thompson Sonny Thompson (probably August 23, 1916 – August 11, 1989), born Alfonso Thompson or Hezzie Tompson, was an American R&B bandleader and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography There is some uncertainty over Thompson's origins, as ...

– piano, arranger, conductor *John Jeremiah – organ *Bryce Roberson, Jon Stocklin – guitar *Bob Crowder – bass *Tyrone Smith – drums *

– arranger, conductor *Unidentified horn section and vocalists

References

{{Authority control 1971 albums Howlin' Wolf albums Chess Records albums