Hound Dog Taylor: Natural Boogie-1974 Alligator 1st Edition 33 RPM 12" Record
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Used 1974 Alligator White Label Stereo Release of Bandleader/Composer/Guitar Master/Pioneering Blues Vocalist Hound Dog Taylor Entitled Natural Boogie with Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers, Produced by Hound Dog Taylor and Bruce Iglauer, Engineer Is Stu Black, Liner Notes by Bruce Iglauer, Special Thanks to Bob Koester of Delmark Records, Album Originally Recorded at Sound Studios in Chicago - "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." - "Hound Dog Taylor's second album was every bit as wild as the first, bringing with it a fatter sound and a wider range of emotions and music. A recut here of Taylor's first single, "Take Five," totally burns the original while the smoldering intensity of "See Me in the Evening" and "Sadie" take this album to places the first one never reached." - Stunning Personnel for the HouseRockers Features Legendary Composer Hound Dog Taylor on Lead Guitar and Vocals, the Brilliant Brewer Philips on Second Guitar & Ted Harvey on Drums! - Selections on Side A Are the Dee Clark/Kal Mann/Cornell Muldrow Song Take Five, the Traditional Hawaiian Boogie, the Brewer Philips Penned See Me in the Evening and Original Hound Dog Taylor Compositions You Can't Sit Down, Sitting at Home Alone, One More Time - Tracks for Side B Consist of the Hound Dog Taylor Penned Roll Your Moneymaker, Buster's Boogie, Sadie, the Elmore James Classic Talk to My Baby & Original Hound Dog Taylor Composition Goodnight Boogie - Used Copy, Cover Is Slightly Faded with a Light Surface Ring, Record Very Good++ - Stereo Recording, Product Code AL 4704 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -
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