Omar Dykes to release new album Runnin’
With The Wolf on Mascot Label Group/Provogue/Warner Music Finland out July
5.
It’s easy to see why since Howlin’
Wolf songs are primal blasts of passionate Chicago blues. The big, bulky icon
was a unique interpreter, particularly of Willie Dixon’s provocative songs.
Howlin’ Wolf would take a tune and make it his own. That’s why so many classic
songs penned by Dixon are known as Howlin’ Wolf numbers.
The latest accomplished group
to take a crack at Howlin’ Wolf numbers is Omar and the Howlers. The dynamic
Austin-based band recorded 14 classics immortalized by Howlin’ Wolf and 1 track
written by Dykes inspired by the Wolf. “I do my little versions of the songs,”
Omar Dykes says. “If Howlin’ Wolf was a 500-pound steel anvil, then I’m a little
piece of steel wool that fell out of the pack.”
Dykes, who is what the late DJ
Wolfman Jack might have sounded like if he sang, is being humble to a fault.
Omar and the Howlers, which has been making swaggering, celebratory electric
blues rock out of America’s live music Mecca, Austin, since 1976, is a musical
treasure
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