Robert Christgau called them "the Ramones of Chicago blues". Who else is a fan? I've been playing their s/t debut a lot lately, as well as Natural Boogie. Great stuff - sloppy soulful gut bucket blues. Apparently Hound Dog used the cheapest guitar on the market, and what he squeezed out of that thing makes me wanna drink whiskey and dance all night!
― TheTco, Sunday, 10 August 2008 05:31 (seventeen years ago)
I had a Hound Dog Taylor album that I lost somewhere along the way (maybe stolen at a party a while back). I liked it. After a few listens I came to the conclusion that it sounded like an awful lot of other electric blues except with a much nastier guitar tone. But that guitar tone made a big difference.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 10 August 2008 06:05 (seventeen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KP9WSyUoZMI/Upjx55geskI/AAAAAAAAT3k/AneqFJAf_1w/s400/Hound+Dog+4.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)
Woefully short thread. His first record has been one of my favorite blues albums since high school, always wish I could have seen him. By most accounts he would have been 100 this year.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 March 2015 19:28 (ten years ago)
only have one record by him but it's enough to tell me this guy was a champ
― cgi bubka (NickB), Friday, 13 March 2015 19:39 (ten years ago)
Listening to the s/t album on Spotify now. Wow, nasty. Also love that there's a compilation called Release the Hound.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 13 March 2015 19:55 (ten years ago)
hurrrrrr this guy ruled
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 13 March 2015 21:58 (ten years ago)
i love this version of the elmore james tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbLsoDfsTJw
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 13 March 2015 21:59 (ten years ago)
alligator records started off with such a band but sank into mediocrity pretty soon after
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 13 March 2015 22:00 (ten years ago)
bang
although they're still probably better than most contemporary blues labels, which ain't sayin much
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 13 March 2015 22:02 (ten years ago)
Reading up on him now and it sounds like we're damn lucky to have any records by him at all. First album made in 1971, died in 1975. All those years of playing beforehand and fuck all appreciation by the world at large.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Friday, 13 March 2015 22:07 (ten years ago)
Wonder if he was on Dr Feelgood's radar?
― cgi bubka (NickB), Friday, 13 March 2015 22:09 (ten years ago)