{"title":"Hound Dog Taylor","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"natural-boogie","title":"Natural Boogie","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second album by Hound Dog Taylor and his ragged but right HouseRockers. Features all-time fan favorites like \u003ci\u003eSadie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTake Five\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoll Your Moneymaker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSee Me In The Evening\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alligator","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50485209629003,"sku":"1125231","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2666804c-3f1a-4d75-8fca-dbf8170debd7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727597229"},{"product_id":"tearing-the-roof-off-chicago-guitar-blues-1962-1982","title":"Tearing The Roof Off - Chicago Guitar Blues 1962-1982","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile producing this set JSP's John Stedman remarked \"the reason this music is so tough it's played by tough old bastards\". Hound Dog Taylor and The HouseRockers (Hound Dog on slide guitar, Brewer Phillips on guitar and Ted Harvey on drums) were indeed tough both on and off stage. Greg Lawrie, a musician who toured with Hound Dog during a 1975 Australian tour (with Freddie King, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Alexis Korner and Duster Bennett) described Hound Dog and the HouseRockers as \"one of the rock 'n' rollinest bands ever, completely authentic, 100% raw blues, real rock and roll blues. Hound Dog tore the roof off every night with his slide guitar. He was a fantastic player, very basic, but he hit what needed to be hit, no more, no less\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Taylor's early years in Mississippi include stories of him being ordered to leave home at the point of a gun by his stepfather and being run out of Mississippi by the KKK for having a relationship with a white woman. Mike Rowe's account of Hound Dog's early years in his book 'Chicago Breakdown' is succinct: \"Theodore Roosevelt 'Hound Dog' Taylor was born in Greenville, Mississippi on April 14th 1916 (or possibly in Natchez on April 12th 1915). First, he tried the piano and then a cigar box guitar, to be replaced by the real thing, ordered from Sears Roebuck. He was nineteen and learned to play by watching musicians in Tchula, where he was then living. His big influence was Elmore James, but he names Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) as other sources of inspiration and in fact he played with Sonny Boy on the King Biscuit programme. After some trouble in Mississippi he left to come to his sisters in Chicago. He played with Johnny Williams at Stormy's (at Root and Princeton) and there were plans to record them, which fell through.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD 1: Whiskey Headed Woman - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Poison Ivy - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Watermelon Man - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ PoorBoy Blues - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Pretty Baby - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The House-rockers \/ Whole Lotta Love - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Okee Dokee Stomp -Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Woke Up This Morning - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Cleo - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Everyday I Have The Blues - BrewerPhillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Just Pickin’ - Brewer Phillips \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Chris ne (CJ\/Firma 45) - Hound Dog Taylor \/ Alley Music (CJ\/Firma 45) - Hound Dog Taylor \/ Christine (originally unissued instrumental no vocal track) - Hound Dog Taylor \/ I Know You Don’t Love Me No More (Colt, originally unissued credited to Homesick James) - Hound Dog Taylor \/ I Held My Baby Last Night (Live in Australia 1975) - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Ships On The Ocean - Lefty Dizz With Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Rockin’ With The Dog - Le y Dizz With Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD 2: Everyday I Have The Blues - Le y Dizz With Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ No Hair - Lefty Dizz With Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Stompin’ - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ I Held My Baby Last Night - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/Funky - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ You Can’t Sit Down - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Hound Dog’s Blues - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Coming Round The Mountain - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Rock Me - Hound Dog Taylor\u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Florence’s Shuffle - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Juke JointBoogie - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Goodnight Boogie - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Walking The Ceiling - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Mother In Law Blues - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Stingin’ The Blues - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Rockin’ Boogie - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers \/ Blues Stomp - Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JSP","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50490114015563,"sku":"1131783","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"take-five","title":"Take Five","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheodore \"Hound Dog\" Taylor was born on April 12, 1917, in Natchez, Mississippi. By day, he was a sharecropper; by night, he played the delta jukes. In 1942, following a dangerous encounter with the Ku Klux Klan, he high-tailed it out of the South to Chicago. There, he held a day job while building his reputation as a musician, performing in South and West Side blues clubs and on the streets. It wasn’t until the late 50's that he became a full-time musician, playing regularly at the Expressway Lounge. Taylor developed a raw vocal style and blistering slide guitar technique, using a cheap Teisco Del Rey guitar powered through a Sears Roebuck amplifier. He also had a physical condition called polydactylism, which resulted in an extra finger on each hand. Hound Dog Taylor first recorded in 1960 for Bea and Baby Records, and again in 1962 for the Firma label. The resulting 45s were his only releases during the 60's and these four tracks are included on this record. As a bonus, we have added two tracks by Mississippi-born, long-time blues veteran Homesick James, who, after recording several 45s in the early 50's, didn’t get another single released until 1962. Both numbers feature Taylor on guitar. He died in December 1975, after releasing four albums on the Alligator label, leaving us his own epitaph: ‘When I die, they’ll say, ‘He couldn’t play shit, but he sure made it sound good!’. Strictly limited edition of 250 copies. TRACKLIST SIDE A A1. My Baby's Coming Home A2. Take Five A3. Christine SIDE B B1. Alley Music B2. Set A Date B3. 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