1951 single by Howlin' Wolf
"How Many More Years" is a blues song written and originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1951. Recorded at the Memphis Recording Service – which later became the Sun Studio – it was released by Chess Records and reached No. 4 on the Billboard R&B chart. Musician and record producer T Bone Burnett has described "How Many More Years" as "in some ways ... the first rock’n’roll song".[1] It was a double-sided hit with "Moanin' at Midnight", which reached No. 10 on the R&B chart.