Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers - Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1971
Styles: Blues
Time: 44:25
Size: 102,4 MB
Covers: Full

(3:51) 1. She's Gone
(3:18) 2. Walking the Ceiling
(4:17) 3. Held My Baby Last Night
(3:55) 4. Taylor's Rock
(3:14) 5. It's Alright
(5:31) 6. Phillips' Theme
(3:39) 7. Wild About You, Baby
(3:12) 8. I Just Can't Make It
(3:53) 9. It Hurts Me Too
(2:53) 10. 44 Blues
(3:35) 11. Give Me Back My Wig
(3:04) 12. 55th Street Boogie

If you think the slide guitar blues of Elmore James is as loud and ragged as music can be, then you've never heard Hound Dog Taylor. Born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1915, he didn't pick up the guitar until he was 20, and was instantly smitten by the rawboned sound players like James got by slipping a slide across the strings of an electric guitar. The raw, boogie style of his trio (with Brewer Phillips on second guitar and Ted Harvey on drums) was nurtured over endless nights in Chicago blues clubs. Sometimes, Phillips plays a single-note lead guitar that suggests Buddy Guy on a bender. More often, the trio slams out a boogie beat that is topped by Taylor's slide guitar, an electrified whine that's about as subtle as a broken bottle on a tavern floor. This 1971 album was the first release by Alligator Records, which went on to become a major independent label specializing in contemporary blues. -- Amazon.
The first album and the perfect place to start. Wild, raucous, crazy music straight out of the South Side clubs. The incessant drive of Hound Dog's playing is best heard on "Give Me Back My Wig," "55th Street Boogie," and "Taylor's Rock," while the sound of Brewer Phillips' Telecaster on "Phillips' Theme" gives new meaning to the phrase "sheet metal tone." One of the greatest slide guitar albums of all time. -- Allmusic.

Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers

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