His 1962 LP Howlin' Wolf, which featured contributions from Willie Dixon, Jimmy Rogers and Sam Lay among others, is a famous and influential blues album, often referred to as "The Rocking Chair album" because of its cover illustration depicting an acoustic guitar leaning against a rocking chair.

She snapped on the light and yes, it was what she had thought, a guitar, leaning against the wall beside the dresser that was obviously his - cluttered on top, no knick- knacks.

The one thing that must be his--and now this did not surprise her--was a battered guitar leaning in one corner.

"I think the rest of the field is looking at us right now and wondering how a New York City golf team can be any good," Mueller said from his office last week, his guitar leaning against the wall behind him.

There's an alcove near the front of the house with a junior-size set of drums for Sam, some vintage-looking guitars leaning against a wall, a wall unit crammed with videos, books and other stuff.

The bandstand was deserted except for a disassembled microphone stand and a dusty guitar leaning stringless against the wall.

But now Miss Angorian made a dive round the chair and noticed Howl's guitar leaning in its corner.

I wait behind the ropes for the mass of shiny yellow and blue and red helmets to pass, then step past the bronze statue of a Gypsy woman, her foot resting on an anvil, a guitar leaning against her leg, and walk down concrete steps to the river's edge.