Deluxe Edition [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Hound Dog Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Alligator Records
• ASIN: B00000I02N
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,542 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #2 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Chicago Blues
  • #8 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Electric Blues Guitar
  • #55 in Music > Blues > Slide Guitar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You've heard it before...but never this well., February 20, 1999

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Deborah A. Gottlieb "mutualsushi" (FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deluxe Edition (Audio CD)

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! But You'll have to admit, the distortion never sounded so good. This is a remastered greatest hits type album, although "Sadie" and a couple others are missing. However, in their place you'll find a couple previously unissued gems. If you're like me, you already have most of these songs, but you can never get enough Hound Dog. And if you want to buy your 1st Hound Dog, this would be a great choice.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, energetic blues-n-boogie, September 27, 2003

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deluxe Edition (Audio CD)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beware of the Dog, June 26, 2000

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"jpthunder" (Irving, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deluxe Edition (Audio CD)

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. This is the straight dirty stuff. His energy and enthusiasm for the blues makes him one of my most favorite artists. Definitely an essential for everyones collection.