Born: April 12, 1915 in Natchez, MS, died: December 17, 1975 in Chicago, IL, USA
Hound Dog Taylor was an American blues guitarist and singer. He was best known for his raw vocal style and searing slide guitar, using a cheap Teisco del Rey guitar and Sears Roebuck amplifier to great advantage.
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.
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 Fredddy 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 Jines' 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 House Rockers, 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. (by Billy Dahl).
Hound Dog Taylor was an American blues guitarist and singer. He was best known for his raw vocal style and searing slide guitar, using a cheap Teisco del Rey guitar and Sears Roebuck amplifier to great advantage.
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.
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 Fredddy 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 Jines' 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 House Rockers, 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. (by Billy Dahl).
1971
Alligator Rec. 4701, 12 tracks, 44:45 min.
1974
1974
Alligator Rec. 4704, 11 tracks, 41:10 min.
1976
Alligator Rec. 4707, 9 tracks, 40:29 min.
1982
Alligator Rec. 4727, 10 tracks, 35:25 min.
1982
JSP rec. 1035, 8 tracks, 39:07 min.
1992
Wolf Rec. 120.300, 11 tracks, 49:33 min.
1992
Fan Club Rec.100, 11 tracks, 52:57 min.
1994
Wolf Rec. 120.600, 11 tracks, 44:25 min.
1999
Charly Rec. 218, 15 tracks, 1:08:54 min.
1999
Alligator Rec. 5605, 15 tracks, 1:01:30 min.
2004
Alligator Rec. 4896, 15 tracks, 1:09:22 min.
1997
Alligator Rec. 4855, 14 tracks, 1:02:41 min.
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