The Wolf That House Built

The Wolf That House Built

Little Axe

Released in 1994, produced by Adrian Sherwood and with Little Axe aka Skip McDonald as sole performer this is an On-U Sound production in all but name. What distinguishes this album from other On-U projects is the raw material: whereas an On-U Sound album generally builds on a reggae foundation, Skip McDonald's background is in the blues, and what he has put together here is a tribute to Howling Wolf. This is a roiling pastiche of samples taken from Wolf's singing and speaking, all of them thrown into a stew of funk and reggae beats and interspersed with McDonald's own Read more on Last.fm.