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7.7/10 Movieo Initial release 4 November 2003 (USA) Producer Joe Lauro | 4.5/5 Barnes & Noble 7.8/10 IMDb Director Don McGlynn Cinematography Frank Axelsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Initial DVD release 24 November 2003 (Netherlands) Cast Hubert Sumlin, Sam Phillips, Bettye Kelly, Barbra Marks, Paul Burlison Similar The Soul of a Man, The Search for Robert Johnson, Jandek on Corwood, Louis Prima: The Wildest, Rejoice and Shout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Howlin' Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll is a 2003 documentary about the life of blues legend Howlin' Wolf. It features much new and rare material, including Howlin' Wolf performing How Many More Years? on the TV musical show Shindig!, introduced by the Rolling Stones, drummer Sam Lay's home movies of stars of the Chicago Blues from the early 1960s, interviews with Howlin' Wolf's family, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold, Marshall Chess and many others, photographs of Howlin' Wolf and his band through their careers, and much else. The film was directed by video biographer Don McGlynn, and produced by Joe Lauro, whose company, Historic Films Inc., supplied much of the footage for Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary series on the blues.