Howlin’ Wolf – Ain’t Gonna Be Your Dog (1994)

CD1
1 	Look-A-Here Baby 		
2 	California Blues # 1 		
3 	Worried All The Time 		
4 	Everybody's In The Mood 		
5 	Color And Kind 		
6 	Dorothy Mae 		
7 	Sweet Woman 		
8 	Decoration Day 		            play
9 	Oh Red 		
10 	I'm Not Joking 		
11 	Highway My Friend 		
12 	Hold Your Money 		
13 	California Blues # 2 		
14 	Stay Here Til My Baby Comes Back 		
15 	Come To Me Baby 		
16 	So Glad 		
17 	Bluebird 		
18 	My Life 		
19 	You Ought To Know 		
20 	Nature (Alternate Take) 		
21 	Walk To Camp Hall 		
22 	Poor Boy (Alternate Take) 		

CD2
1 	My Baby Told Me (Alternate Take) 		
2 	Midnight Blues (Alternate Take To "Moaning For My Baby") 		
3 	You Can't Put Me Out 		
4 	Getting Late 		
5 	Wolf In The Mood 		
6 	My People's Gone 		
7 	Mama's Baby 		
8 	Tail Dragger (Alternate Take) 		
9 	Long Green Stuff 		
10 	Joy To My Soul 		
11 	Poor Wind That Never Change 		
12 	Pop It To Me 		
13 	I Had A Dream 		
14 	The Big House 		
15 	Tired Of Crying 		
16 	Rollin' And Tumblin' (Acoustic Fragment) 		
17 	More Howlin' Wolf Talks 		
18 	I Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog Anymore (Acoustic) 		play
19 	Woke Up This Morning (Acoustic) 		
20 	Ain't Going Down That Dirt Road (2nd Acoustic Take)

Bass – Alfred Elkins
Bass – Unknown Artist
Drums – Willie Steele
Drums – Earl Phillips
Guitar – Willie Johnson, Smokey Smothers
Guitar – Hubert Sumlin, Jody Williams
Harmonica – James Cotton
Piano – Albert Williams 
Piano – L.C. Hubert
Piano – Henry Gray, Hosea Lee Kennard
Tenor Saxophone – Adolph "Billy" Duncan
Tenor Saxophone – Charles Taylor
Tenor Saxophone – Unknown Artist
Trombone – Walter "Tang" Smith
Vocals, Harmonica – Howlin' Wolf

This double-disc set features 42 rare and unissued performances, effectively cleaning out the Chess vaults of all but alternate takes of alternate takes. But these are no bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings here, quite the opposite. The first 14 tunes collect up the remainder of his Memphis recordings for Sam Phillips while the rest does the bootleggers one better, compiling masters that were previously only available on bad-sounding '70s vinyl albums. There's another snippet from his 1968 interview along with four more acoustic numbers from that same session (done, it turns out, as a promotional piece of sorts to preview his "soon-to-be-released psychedelic album," which Wolf always dismissed as "birds**t"), sadly the only time Chess ever tried to record him as a solo artist. A wonderful companion piece to any other Wolf collection you might own.---Cub Koda, allmusic.com

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