BURNETT, CHESTER ARTHUR (HOWLIN' WOLF
). Bluesman ( in Aberdeen (near West Point), Mississippi; in Hines, Illinois). He played blues at an early age, developing his style in the late 1920s under the tutelage of Charlie Patton and
Sonny Boy Williamson, No. 2 (Willie (Rice
) Miller)
. He was an itinerant bluesman in the Delta region through the 1930s and 1940s, served in the armed forces during World War II, then in 1947 settled in West Memphis,...