How Many More Years formed his own band in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1948, billing himself as "The Howlin' Wolf". He began broadcasting on radio station KWEM in West Memphis, and was heard by Sam Phillips who signed him for Memphis Recording Service. He recorded "How Many More Years" at the MRS studio at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, in or about July 1951, singing and playing harmonica with a band comprising (probably) Ike Turner (piano), Willie Johnson (guitar), and Willie Steele (drums). The repetitious bass-string boogie line resembles the one played in the traditional blues standard "Forty-Four". The record's original A-side, "Moanin' at
The Lion has Many Ears The Lion has Many Ears Mörg eru ljónsins eyru (literally, 'Many are the Lion's Ears', or, in the publisher's translation, 'The Lion has Many Ears'), published in Reykjavík in 2010 by JPV, is an Icelandic crime novel by Þórunn Erlu-Valdimarsdóttir set between 1995 and 2009. It is to a large extent an adaptation of the famous medieval Icelandic saga "Laxdæla saga"; in the assessment of Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson, 'the love triangle of "Laxdæla saga" is here dragged screaming into the present, though some parts of the story were clearly written before the Crash, others after'. The novel was nominated for