Hound Dog Taylor

Taylor and his beleaguered rhythm section played their butts off 366 nights a year in a dingy, smoke-filled Chicago juke joint until someone finally committed it all to tape. The exuberantly sloppy, ultra-distorted slide guitar playing and joyous yelps found here are some of the most life-affirming moments you're going to hear in blues music.

A lot of record companies talk quite a Bit about their blues "product" but it's always been
the small-label independents who really record and release the best blues discs. Alligator is
a new company out of Chicago, where Chess and Vee Jay used to operate from. Needless
to say, this disc is far superior to the most recent B.B. King or Muddy Waters albums– if
you're really into the blues, labels like Alligator and Adelphi, as well as Blue Goo... More >