Hound Dog Taylor - Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
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Artist: Hound Dog TaylorBrand: Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Alligator Records
Soundtracks:
- She's Gone
- Walking The Ceiling
- Held My Baby Last Night
- Tayor's Rock
- It's Alright
- Phillip's Theme
- Wild About You Baby
- I Just Can't Make It
- It Hurts Me Too
- 44 Blues
- Give Me Back My Wig
- 55th Street Boogie
Music reviews of Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
Music Review: Rough but fun
Rating: 4 Stars
"When I die", Hound Dog Taylor is reported to have said, "people are gonna say 'he couldn't play s**t, but he sure made it sound good'!"
Well, truth be told, Theodore Roosevelt Taylor wasn't the most subtle or technically varied slide guitarist, but he and his Houserockers did indeed make it sound good.
The production on this their first record leaves a lot to be desired (the drums are mixed way too far into the background, and there are times when you can barely hear Brewer Phillips' second guitar), but having Hound Dog Taylor's crunchy, fuzzy lead guitar right up front isn't too bad, and he rocks on the funky "It's Alright", the fiery instrumental "Walking The Ceiling", and a raw, sloppy take on Tampa Red's "It Hurts Me Too".
Other highlights include the slow blues "Held My Baby Last Night", and Hound Dog Taylor's best song, the superbly groovy, up-tempo boogie of "Give Me Back My Wig" (later covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan among others).
Incredibly unsubtle and often unvaried, and too many mediocre instrumental pieces, too, but it's good fun all the same.
3 1/2 stars.
Description of Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
In celebration of the label's 40th Anniversary, Alligator Records is releasing this classic catalog title on 180 gram vinyl! It's the label's legendary first release from 1971, a raucous, joyous dose of Chicago slide blues that has influenced everyone from George Thorogood to Gov't Mule to Jon Spencer. Remastered with bonus track "Look On Yonder's Wall," this title has been out of print on vinyl for 20 years.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. --John Milward
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