Smokestack Lightning
by Howlin' Wolf
🎵 Blues
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Howlin' Wolf's 1956 one-chord masterpiece built on a droning open E boogie riff. Hubert Sumlin's guitar work is raw and primal, using repetition and slight variations to create a hypnotic trance.
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|--0--0h2--0---------0--0h2--0-----0h2p0-----------|
A|--2--------2--0--2--2--------2--0--------2--0------|
E|--0--------------0--0--------------0---------0-----|
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|--0--0h2--0---------0--0h2--0----------------------|
A|--2--------2--0--2--2--------2--0--2--0--2---------|
E|--0--------------0--0--------------0--------0------|