Tom Waits and The Rolling Stones take on Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘Little Red Rooster’

The avant garde’s bizarre hero links up with rock’s most unlikely survivors.

In their Oakland show this weekend, legendary rockers The Rolling Stones brought out an unexpected guest in gravelly-voiced weirdo Tom Waits. Waits assisted the band in a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s 1961 blues classic ‘Little Red Rooster’ and delivered his shredded vocal with a typical growl. His unmistakable voice adds a fittingly gruesome depth to the track, and sharply accents the toothless blues of the original.

You can see the whole thing thanks to the fan-uploaded footage below. [via Pitchfork]