Chester Arthur Burnett, as Wolf was born, was part of the Chicago Blues scene led by musicians escaping segregation in the South in the 1940s and 1950s. The likes of Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon had a massive influence on subsequent genres and musicians of all type, but sometimes that can hide the fact that they made songs that are just good in themselves.'Smokestack Lightnin' was, in Wolf's words, a result of when "we used to sit out in the country and see the trains go by, watch the sparks come out of the smokestack. That was smokestack lightnin'."
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