IN what is potentially the penultimate Night Moves before Scotland changes forever, we wanted to take a look at a venue carving out its own niche in the world through passion and an independent spirit.

I think we found one in Howlin' Wolf.

This Bath Street juke joint has only been in existence since spring, but it scooped the "prestigious" (these things are always prestigious, aren't they?) Best New Bar gong at the Dram Magazine Awards in July.

This city has its own rich musical heritage, but the Howlin' Wolf primarily takes its inspiration from where it all began: the bluesmen of the Mississippi Delta and the myriad musical forms they helped create.

Robert Johnson's primal mastery of the blues helped to shape modern rock and roll in a way that could never have been imagined. He was an itinerant performer who rehearsed in graveyards and played on street corners and whichever joints would put him up for the night.

After recording a batch of songs between 1936 and 1937 he died in mysterious circumstances at 27 - a founding members of the notorious "27 Club."

It wasn't until two decades later that he became revered by the white musicians who were among the early adopters of the rock and roll movement, and his old songs about crossroads and hellhounds became standards of the American Songbook.

Howlin' Wolf carries on that spirit with live rock and roll and blues seven nights a week, a 3am kicking out time, a wide range of bourbons and inspired food, and a reverential atmosphere towards those Delta legends.