Hound Dog Taylor
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Biography
[Edit]Alligator Records, Chicago's leading contemporary blues label, might never have been launched at all if not for the crashing, slashing slide guitar antics of Hound Dog Taylor. Bruce Iglauer, then an employee of Delmark Records, couldn't convince his boss, Bob Koester, of Taylor's potential, so Iglauer took matters into his own hands. In 1971, Alligator was born for the express purpose of releasing Hound Dog's debut album. We all know what transpired after that.
Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, Mississippi-native Taylor took up the guitar when he was 20 years old. He made a few appearances on Sonny Boy Williamson's fabled KFFA King Biscuit Time radio broadcasts out of Helena, Arkansas, before coming to Chicago in 1942. It was another 15 years before Taylor made blues his full-time vocation, though. Taylor was a favorite on Chicago's South and West sides during the late '50s and early '60s. It's generally accepted that Freddy King copped a good portion of his classic "Hide Away" from an instrumental he heard Taylor cranking out on the bandstand.
Taylor's pre-Alligator credits were light — only a 1960 single for Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby imprint ("Baby Is Coming Home"/"Take Five"), a 1962 45 for Carl Jones' Firma Records ("Christine"/"Alley Music"), and a 1967 effort for Checker ("Watch Out"/"Down Home") predated his output for Iglauer.
Taylor's relentlessly raucous band, the HouseRockers, consisted of only two men, though their combined racket sounded like quite a few more. Second guitarist Brewer Phillips, who often supplied buzzing pseudo-basslines on his guitar, had developed such an empathy with Taylor that their guitars intertwined with ESP-like force, while drummer Ted Harvey kept everything moving along at a brisk pace.
Their eponymous 1971 debut LP contained the typically rowdy "Give Me Back My Wig," while Taylor's first Alligator encore in 1973, Natural Boogie, boasted the hypnotic "Sadie" and a stomping "Roll Your Moneymaker." Beware of the Dog, a live set, vividly captured the good-time vibe that the perpetually beaming guitarist emanated, but Taylor didn't live to see its release — he died of cancer shortly before it hit the shelves.
Hound Dog Taylor was the obvious inspiration for Alligator's "Genuine Houserocking Music" motto, a credo Iglauer's firm has followed for four decades and counting. He wasn't the most accomplished of slide guitarists, but Hound Dog Taylor could definitely rock any house that he played.
Title: Hound Dog Taylor and The HouseRockers
Artist: Hound Dog Taylor, The HouseRockers
Genre: Blues
Title: Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers: Live In Boston
Artist: Hound Dog Taylor, The HouseRockers
Genre: Blues
Collections
Title: Blues Guitar Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Rare Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: Muddy Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: Boom Boom Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Essentials
Genre: Blues
Title: Blue Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Crazy Side of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Amazing Blues Guitar
Genre: Blues
Title: Cowboy Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: Bluesy Summer Brunch
Genre: Blues
Title: Shameless Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Angry Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Greatest Blues All Stars
Genre: Blues
Title: Home Is Where the Blues Are
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Anthems
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blues For a Wimpy Kid
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Gunslinger Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Songs of Freedom
Genre: Blues
Title: House Rockin' Southern Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Cheating Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Lonely Man Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Golden Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Wild Women Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Jukbebox
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Heartache Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues - Love Songs
Genre: Blues
Title: The Greatest Party Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Folk Blues Festival '67
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Slide Guitarists
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of Slide Guitar
Genre: Blues
Title: American Girls: Essential Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Blues Classic´s
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues Live and Loud
Genre: Blues
Title: Discover Modern Blues Guitarists
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Club Sounds - 25 (Live)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Wicked Wit
Genre: Blues
Title: Hoochie Mamas of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Boogie Woogie
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Driving Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Show Stoppers
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Picks
Genre: Blues
Title: A Beginners Guide to: Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Night Time is the Right Time - Essential Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Oldies
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Cash Talkin'
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues - S**t My Dad Listened To
Genre: Blues
Title: Slow Blues Chicago Style
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Slide Guitar Blues Gems
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Alligator Records 30th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Home is Where the Heart Is: Mississippi Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Alligator Records 25th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Alligator Records 35th Anniversary Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Songs for Traveling
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Standards
Genre: Blues
Title: Reading Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of Slide Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Slide Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Greatest Rock n Roll Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Mellow Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Songs That Changed the World
Genre: Blues
Featuring albums
Title: American Folk Blues Festival '67
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz