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Title: Wolf went out swinging.
Review: Wolf's last album is an astonishing display of pure guts and deep, deep blues. Tracks like "Coon On The Moon" and "Watergate Blues" updated the form itself, and he re-invents the past in songs like "Moving", "Trying To Forget You", and the utterly amazing "Can't Stay Here". Some so-called purists were put out by the keyboard-simulated harpsichord on a few cuts, but it only adds to the effect of killer tunes like "Speak Now Woman". The great Hubert Sumlin is here as well, and if you're a guitar player, clean your ears and listen up. While many people point out "The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions" as the highlight of Wolf's last years, this album is an even deeper, purer document of maybe the greatest of them all. He's been gone twenty-two years, but I don't think that voice will ever be entirely dead.
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