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Podcast: The Blues Guitar Show
Episode: Episode #142 Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor Lesson
Description: In this episode we go through the Chicago blues classic 'Killing Floor' by Howlin Wolf."Killing Floor" is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf. Called "one of the defining classics of Chicago electric blues",[1] "Killing Floor" became a blues standard with recordings by various artists. It has been acknowledged by the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, which noted its popularity among rock as well as blues musicians. English rock group Led Zeppelin adapted the song for their "The Lemon Song", for which Howlin' Wolf is named as a co-author. If you f...