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Howlin Wolf Smokestack Lightning Live 1964 "Smokestack Lightning" (también "Smoke Stack Lightning" o "Smokestack Lightnin '") es una canción de blues grabada por Howlin' Wolf en 1956. Se convirtió en una de sus canciones más populares e influyentes. Se basa en canciones de blues anteriores, y numerosos artistas más tarde lo interpretaron. Wolf había realizado "Smokestack Lightning" de una forma u otra al menos a principios de la década de 1930, cuando actuaba con Charley Patton en pequeñas comun

From Howlin’ Wolf’s 1971 live blues performance at Big Duke’s Flamingo in Chicago. Wolf's music never lost its primal quality: some of his best songs, such as ''Smokestack Lightning,'' ''Commit a Crime'' and ''I Asked for Water, but She Gave Me Gasoline,'' are trancelike one-chord vamps reaching back to African-American music's pre-Western roots. ''That's something I got from the old music,'' he said. But this was a deliberate, even stubborn, artistic choice, as much as Wolf tried to commodify h