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| | Deluxe Edition | | | Music Artist : | | Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Alligator Records | | Release Date : | | 1999-02-23 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $17.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Wild About You Baby
2. Sun Is Shining - Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, Hound Dog Taylor
3. Roll Your Moneymaker
4. Give Me Back My Wig
5. Walking the Ceiling
6. See Me in the Evening
7. Phillips Goes Bananas
8. It Hurts Me Too
9. What'd I Say
10. Rock Me [Live]
11. Phillips' Theme [Live][#]
12. Take Five
13. She's Gone
14. Ain't It Lonesome [Live][#]
15. Ain't Got Nobody
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Awesome Baby Awesome
Submitted on: 2007-03-20 |
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| I loved the Hound Dog man even before George Thoroughgood ever heard of him. Hound Dog sounds just like the blues bands I went to see in the 60s in some run down lookin, jivin, juke joint under a bridge some where. The music is raw blues. This cat had the Elmore James sound cookin all the time on his songs. If you love Elmore, you will love "The Dog." In this compilation it sounds like almost all of the recordings were live and I love it when Hound Dog is bantering with the audience...just like the old club days...I am there again. I really think he gets down on "Roll Your Money Maker," and "Give Me Back My Wig." I just ain't ever goin give back my cd of "The Hound Dog and The House Rockers." It is locked in my vaults forever. Buy it and when you play it you will be booging all over the place. Now buy this sucker now before it is too late. |
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One of the Best
Submitted on: 2006-03-09 |
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| I liked this CD. Hound Dog Taylor at his best. The songs on this CD are traditional Hound Dog Taylor. If you like the blues, you'll like this CD. |
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 Fun, energetic blues-n-boogie
Submitted on: 2003-09-28 |
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A slide guitarist of the Elmore James school, Theodore Roosevelt Taylor and his bass-less Houserockers played raw, nasty-sounding blues n' boogie long on energy and short on subtleties. Other blues guitarists used distortion before Taylor, but he explored it to depths only previously investigated by white rock guitarists, blasting his tonal mayhem through cheap Japanese guitars and Sears & Roebuck amplifiers.
This collection gathers (most of) the best tracks from Taylor's all-too-brief recording career (he died four years after setting foot in a studio for the first time), including the supremely groovy semi-slow blues "See Me In The Evening", the blustery instrumental "Walking The Ceiling", the funky "She's Gone", and takes on Elmore James' "Wild About You Baby", "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "The Sun Is Shining". Tampa Red's "It Hurts Me Too" is here as well, in an incredibly fuzzy, sloppy rendition which somehow still manages to sound compelling.
Taylor's best (semi-)original song is also included, the catchy boogie "Give Me Back My Wig", and a hidden bonus track at the end of the CD features Hound Dog Taylor on-stage telling one of his patented incomprehensible jokes.
"Deluxe Edition" doesn't collect everything of Taylor's that's worth a listen, and a couple of selections are very much debatable, but as an introduction it works very well, and it does manage to include virtually all of his very best songs. |
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The best electric blues you'll ever hear- PERIOD!
Submitted on: 2002-11-16 |
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| Maybe I'm biased because I've seen him too. 1974 in a tiny bar on the south side of Chicago. His smile lit the room. I'll never forget it! And that sound! It's just never been matched. Listen for yourself. |
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Don't bother reading reviews: just buy it!
Submitted on: 2002-01-07 |
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| even if you think you have all the Hound Dog you need, you need this disc. Stop reading and order it. (I gave it only 4 stars because a) most of the material is available elsewhere, and b) there's always room for improvement.) |
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