Live and Cookin'

Live and Cookin'
Live album by Howlin' Wolf
Released	1972 (1972)
Recorded	January 26, 1972
Venue	Alice's Revisited, Chicago
Genre	Blues
Label	Chess
Producer	Ralph Bass
Howlin' Wolf chronology
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (1971) Live and Cookin' (1972) The Back Door Wolf (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] [3]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[4]

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". ^[3]

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 ^[3]

Personnel

• Howlin' Wolf – vocals, harmonica
• Eddie Shaw – tenor saxophone
• Albert Luandrew – piano
• Hubert Sumlin, Willie Williams – guitar
• David Myers – bass
• Fred Below – drums ^[5]

References

1. Both Sides Now: GRT Consolidated Chess/Cadet Album Discography (1971-1975), Bsnpubs.com, accessed September 20, 2019
2. Howlin' Wolf Sessionography Archived 2019-06-28 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 19, 2019
3. Koda, Cub. Howlin' Wolf: Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 20, 2019.
4. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 290. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
5. "Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited - Howlin' Wolf | Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved May 22, 2021.