Hound Dog Taylor - Give Me Back My Wig (2 Parts)

Hound Dog Taylor was born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor, named after the US President. He was born with six fingers on each hand. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, his childhood was not an easy one. When he was only 9 years old, his step father supposedly packed up all of his things in a brown paper bag, stood in the doorway with a shotgun, and told Hound Dog to "cut out". That's the way the story goes anyway. From info I've gathered from people who knew him, this story may or may not be true. But he did go to live with his older sister around that time in his life.

The first instrument Taylor learned to play was not the guitar, but piano, which he learned as a kid. He first picked up the guitar while in his teens but didn't start to seriously play until he was around 21. At that time he started playing all over the Delta, not only playing guitar, but piano, too. He also appeared a few times on the legendary King Biscuit Flour radio show of KFFA in West Helena, Arkansas, with Sonny Boy Williamson. In 1942, Taylor, always the ladies man, was chased out of Mississippi one day by the Klan after having an affair with a white woman. He spent the first day hiding in drainage ditches and then the next day he headed for Chicago. He never went back. Although he continued to play his guitar semi-professionally at night, he spent the first 15 years in Chicago working several different non music jobs. In 1957 he was building TV cabinets when he decided to become a full-time bluesman. At this time he also changed his playing style. Where he once played standard and E tunings, he now was playing an increasingly more bottleneck style. This change came about by his being heavy influenced by the then emerging Elmore James.

Early on he garnered a huge local following with his wild live shows, most of the time he would be sitting on a folding chair, stomping both feet, throwing his head back in a frency, drinking Canadian Club and puffing on his cigarettes, urging the crowd to get up and dance, as he blared away on his guitar. Taylor became one of Chicago's most loved bluesmen and a local favorite on the South and West sides of town. It was during this time that he picked up the name "Hound Dog". He was in a club one night chasing a couple of women around when a friend called him a hound dog because he was always on the hunt for woman. The name stuck. It was also around this time when one night, a drunken Hound would, with a straight razor, cut off the small extra finger on his right hand.

Hound Dog's band, the HouseRockers, would come about slowly. In 1959 while playing in a West Side tavern, a guitarist named Brewer Phillips (also born in Mississippi) gigged with the Dog for the first time. The two became quick friends and Phillips would become the HouseRockers second guitarist. ~Partial bio by Keno

Album: Give Me Back My Wig Part 1
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:48
Size: 148.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. She's Gone
[3:34] 2. Give Me Back My Wig
[5:05] 3. Let's Get Funky
[3:55] 4. Taylor's Rock
[3:01] 5. Fender Bender
[2:22] 6. Crossroads
[2:41] 7. Take Five
[3:49] 8. Rock Me
[3:38] 9. Blue Guitar
[2:22] 10. Phillips Screwdriver
[6:30] 11. Freddie's Blues
[3:05] 12. The Dog Meets The Wolf
[5:02] 13. Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
[2:39] 14. Hawaiian Boogie
[2:52] 15. 44 Blues
[3:12] 16. I Just Can't Make It
[3:14] 17. t's Alright
[3:49] 18. Kansas City

Give Me Back My Wig Part 1 mc
Give Me Back My Wig Part 1 zippy

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Album: Give Me Back My Wig Part 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:39
Size: 175.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:55] 1. My Baby's Coming Home
[2:26] 2. One More Time
[3:38] 3. Wild About You, Baby
[5:32] 4. Phillip's Theme
[3:29] 5. Ain't Got Nobody
[4:17] 6. Held My Baby Last Night
[5:26] 7. Ain't It Lonesome
[5:32] 8. The Sun Is Shining
[4:01] 9. Roll Your Moneymaker
[6:10] 10. Sadie
[9:01] 11. See Me In The Evening It's Alright
[3:52] 12. It Hurts Me Too
[3:13] 13. Talk To My Baby Aka I Can't Hold Out
[3:17] 14. Walking On The Ceiling
[2:38] 15. Phillips Goes Bananas
[4:20] 16. Sitting At Home Alone
[3:18] 17. Buster's Boogie
[3:25] 18. You Can't Sit Down

Give Me Back My Wig Part 2 mc
Give Me Back My Wig Part 2 zippy

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