- Audio CD (Feb 6 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Best of
- Label: Fusion
- ASIN: B00000I02N
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #36,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Wild About You, Baby |
| 2. The Sun Is Shining (Live) |
| 3. Roll Your Moneymaker |
| 4. Give Me Back My Wig (Live) |
| 5. Walkin 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 |
| 16. Bonus Track 1 |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
One could conceivably argue that Hound Dog Taylor was a blues punk; he favored energy, excitement, and above all, fun over minor considerations like, say, tuning. It's that exuberance that carries the day on this best-of collection. It's all material from Taylor's too-brief stint at Alligator in the 1970s (he died in 1975), but it's all good blues--blues good enough to launch a record label. Taylor's guitar is grungy enough to get a starring role in a Seattle band circa 1990, and while his voice never quite rises out of a monotone, it's still oddly expressive. Fast, furious, and brimming with energy, Taylor is the perfect cure for the wintertime blues. --Genevieve Williams
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Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
Fun, energetic blues-n-boogie
Sep 28 2003
Format:Audio CD
The music of Hound Dog Taylor and his bass-less band the Houserockers must the place where rock n' roll and the blues meet at the end of a dark alley.
A slide guitarist of the Elmore James school, Theodore Roosevelt Taylor played raw, nasty-sounding music 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 particular brand of 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", and Tampa Red's "It Hurts Me Too" (in an incredibly fuzzy, sloppy rendition which somehow still manages to sound compelling).
Taylor's best original song is here, too, the catchy boogie of "Give Me Back My Wig", and a hidden bonus track at the end of the CD, which features Taylor on-stage telling one of his patented incomprehensible jokes. One minute and 47 seconds of lunacy that's as much fun as the music that preceded it.
"Deluxe Edition" doesn't collect everything of Taylor's that is 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.
The best electric blues you'll ever hear- PERIOD!
Nov 16 2002
Format:Audio CD
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.
Don't bother reading reviews: just buy it!
Jan 6 2002
Format:Audio CD
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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Hound Dog Rocks The House
This is a remastered set which serves as an anthology of Hound Dog Taylor's work on the Alligator label. It also contains a couple of unissued tracks and some live cuts. Read more
Published on May 19 2001 by J. E FELL
Beware of the Dog
I have a collection of about 300 blues cd's and this is one of the grittiest of my entire collection. He doesn't make it sound pretty or even clean. Read more
Published on Jun 26 2000 by "jpthunder"
Blues Punk Indeed!
Imagine if Muddy Waters jammed with Kurt Cobain up in R&R heaven. Playing a department store guitar through a busted amp, Hound Dog creates a joyful noise. Read more
Published on Jan 24 2000 by godoggo
Bow wow
This is a great intro to the real blues, by one of the masters. Raw, hard core, and filled with the energy of spontaneous combustion. No slick production here. Read more
Published on Dec 30 1999
You've heard it before...but never this well.
There's something ironic, if not oxymoronic about 20 bit digital remastering of the music of a man who played on a cheap japanese teisco guitar and amp with blown speakers! Read more
Published on Feb 21 1999 by Deborah A. Gottlieb
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