Howlin Wolf's Smokestack Lightning redux

Here's a sequel to my previous blogs on The immortal Howlin' Wolf's immortal 'Smokestack Lightning'.  I use this song to teach, drill and train students on Fingerstyle guitar, blues, Em Pentatonic scale work and classic rock.  There is a lot here to build on.

The album version:



Wolf was as fierce as they get.  Hubert Sumlin, his guitar player, is featured in an instructional video that I have posted before.  He may be hard to follow for beginners and I will break it down slower below, but there are very few better examples of a classic blues guitar player than Hubert.



Here is one of my lesson supplement videos on this song, where I break it down for students.



Here is another version with Wolf:






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