Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers by Hound Dog Taylor/Hound Dog Taylor & the H

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Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers by Hound Dog Taylor/Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers.

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Tracks:
She's Gone
Walking the Ceiling
Held My Baby Last Night
Taylor's Rock
It's Alright
Phillips' 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
Look On Yonder's Wall

Performer Notes: Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers: Hound Dog Taylor, Brewer Phillips (guitar); Ted Harvey (drums).
Producers: Hound Dog Taylor, Bruce Iglauer, Wesley Race.
Recorded at Sound Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Includes liner notes by Wesley Race and Bruce Iglauer.
A talent so mighty and so criminally overlooked that Bruce Iglauer started Chicago's Alligator Records just to put out his debut full-length, Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor may be as important to blues and roots postmodernists as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters were to the classic blues rockers. With a heavily distorted, highly amplified electric sound that eschewed the standard time-keeping of a bassist for the more propulsive chug of a rhythm guitar player, Taylor and his Houserockers brought the grimy juke-joint boogie back to the fore with this 1973 release. Influenced by Elmore James' loud and hard slide-guitar attack (James' standard "It Hurts Me Too" is given a rather fierce reading) and Freddy King's sweet melodicism, Taylor specialized in good-time dance-floor burners at a time when Chicago blues were sliding into a state of overblown reverence. Most of Taylor's originals are rocked-up party calls, greatly served by the minimal recording production they are given (it is a great lo-fi blues prototype for much of Fat Possum's work in the '90s). And while they may never be as lauded as the anthems of a John Lee Hooker or a Howlin' Wolf, chances are that purists are far more likely to boogie to 'em.

Professional Reviews: Living Blues (p.57) - "Taylor's ragged slide guitar and vocals sound as heavy and biting as ever here, particularly on the devastating slow blues 'It Hurts me Too'..."

Format: Vinyl (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 22 February, 2011

Label: Alligator Records

Performer Notes: Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers: Hound Dog Taylor, Brewer Phillips (guitar); Ted Harvey (drums).

Producers: Hound Dog Taylor, Bruce Iglauer, Wesley Race.
Recorded at Sound Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Includes liner notes by Wesley Race and Bruce Iglauer.
A talent so mighty and so criminally overlooked that Bruce Iglauer started Chicago's Alligator Records just to put out his debut full-length, Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor may be as important to blues and roots postmodernists as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters were to the classic blues rockers. With a heavily distorted, highly amplified electric sound that eschewed the standard time-keeping of a bassist for the more propulsive chug of a rhythm guitar player, Taylor and his Houserockers brought the grimy juke-joint boogie back to the fore with this 1973 release. Influenced by Elmore James' loud and hard slide-guitar attack (James' standard "It Hurts Me Too" is given a rather fierce reading) and Freddy King's sweet melodicism, Taylor specialized in good-time dance-floor burners at a time when Chicago blues were sliding into a state of overblown reverence. Most of Taylor's originals are rocked-up party calls, greatly served by the minimal recording production they are given (it is a great lo-fi blues prototype for much of Fat Possum's work in the '90s). And while they may never be as lauded as the anthems of a John Lee Hooker or a Howlin' Wolf, chances are that purists are far more likely to boogie to 'em.

Professional Reviews: Living Blues (p.57) - "Taylor's ragged slide guitar and vocals sound as heavy and biting as ever here, particularly on the devastating slow blues 'It Hurts me Too'..." Format: Vinyl (1 Disc); Stereo Country: USA Studio/Live: Studio Release Date: 22 February, 2011 Label: Alligator Records