Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Freddie's Blues (1992) FLAC

Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Freddie's Blues (1992) FLAC

Review

This is the third volume of live recordings from Joe's Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1972. Six of the 11 tunes here are instrumentals (four of them featuring the lead guitar of Brewer Phillips), and while Taylor and the Houserockers are generally in rare form here, some chaotic moments ("Let's Get Funky") do abound, but that's half the fun and charm of it all.
(Allmusic)

Artist

Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was born in Mississippi in 1915 or 1917, depending upon who you ask, in honor of the 26th President of the United States He became a full-time musician around 1957 (my Junior year in high school), but was unknown outside of the Chicago area, where he played in small clubs in the Black neighborhoods, and the Maxwell Street Market. He had that experience in common with many Chicago Blues legends, including Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Bo Diddley and Howlin' Wolf. It can fairly be said that Rock and Roll was born in the Maxwell Street Market. The last Blues performances on Maxwell Street occurred at the end of the 20th Century

He was known for his skill with his electric bottleneck guitar; his style was roughly patterned after that of Elmore James, his cheap Japanese guitars, and raucous boogie beats. He was also famed among guitar players for having six fingers on his left hand. (pic is on the site)
( http://www.squidoo.com/the-blues-hound-dog-taylor )

Track List

01. Dust My Broom [3:10]
02. Philip's Crawl [four six]
03. Freddie's Blues [3:51]
04. Strollin 'With Brewer [5:12]
05. It Hurts Me Too [quarter past four]
06. Jumping With Symphony Sid [4:46]
07. Take Five [two fifty-five]
08. Blues For Suzie [four fifty]
09. Roll Your Moneymaker [3:24]
10. Let's Get Funky [four seven]
11. Florence's Blues [three thirty-three]


Media Info

Genre : Modern Electric Blues
Released : 1994
Label : Wolf Records / CD 120.600
Type rip : FLAC
Rip Type : tracks +. cue
Bitrate : Lossless
Duration : 44:13