Live and Cookin' explained

Live and Cookin'
Type:	live
Artist:	Howlin' Wolf
Cover:	Live and Cookin'.jpg
Recorded:	January 26, 1972
Venue:	Alice's Revisited, Chicago
Genre:	Blues
Label:	Chess
Producer:	Ralph Bass
Chronology:	Howlin' Wolf
Prev Title:	The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Prev Year:	1971
Next Title:	The Back Door Wolf
Next Year:	1973

Live and Cookin', subtitled at Alice's Revisited, is a live album by blues musician Howlin' Wolf, released by Chess Records in 1972.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Cub Koda wrote: "The 1972 live album Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited is a great document of Wolf toward the end, still capable of bringing the heat and rocking the house down to the last brick".

Track listing

All compositions credited to Chester Burnett except where noted

1. "When I Laid Down I Was Troubled" – 7:44
2. "I Didn't Know" – 5:58
3. "Mean Mistreater" (McKinley Morganfield) – 6:51
4. "I Had a Dream" – 4:58
5. "Call Me the Wolf" – 5:45
6. "Don't Laugh at Me" – 5:07
7. "Just Passing By" – 5:20
8. "Sitting on Top of the World" – 8:03

Additional tracks on CD reissue

9. "The Big House" – 7:38
10. "Mr. Airplane Man" – 7:31

Personnel

• Howlin' Wolf – vocals, harmonica
• Eddie Shaw – tenor saxophone
• Albert Luandrew – piano
• Hubert Sumlin, Willie Williams – guitar
• David Myers – bass
• Fred Below – drums^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://www.bsnpubs.com/chess/chessconsolidated.html Both Sides Now: GRT Consolidated Chess/Cadet Album Discography (1971-1975)
2. http://depanorama.net/wolf/wolf2.htm Howlin' Wolf Sessionography
3. Web site: Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited - Howlin' Wolf | Credits . 22 May 2021. AllMusic.