{"product_id":"hound-dog-taylor-the-houserockers","title":"Hound Dog Taylor \u0026 the Houserockers","description":"Hound Dog Taylor \u0026amp; The Houserockers: Hound Dog Taylor, Brewer Phillips (guitar); Ted Harvey (drums).\u003cbr\u003eProducers: Hound Dog Taylor, Bruce Iglauer, Wesley Race.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at Sound Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Includes liner notes by Wesley Race and Bruce Iglauer.\u003cbr\u003eA talent so mighty and so criminally overlooked that Bruce Iglauer started Chicago's Alligator Records just to put out his debut full-length, Theodore Roosevelt \"Hound Dog\" Taylor may be as important to blues and roots postmodernists as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters were to the classic blues rockers. With a heavily distorted, highly amplified electric sound that eschewed the standard time-keeping of a bassist for the more propulsive chug of a rhythm guitar player, Taylor and his Houserockers brought the grimy juke-joint boogie back to the fore with this 1973 release. Influenced by Elmore James' loud and hard slide-guitar attack (James' standard \"It Hurts Me Too\" is given a rather fierce reading) and Freddy King's sweet melodicism, Taylor specialized in good-time dance-floor burners at a time when Chicago blues were sliding into a state of overblown reverence. Most of Taylor's originals are rocked-up party calls, greatly served by the minimal recording production they are given (it is a great lo-fi blues prototype for much of Fat Possum's work in the '90s). And while they may never be as lauded as the anthems of a John Lee Hooker or a Howlin' Wolf, chances are that purists are far more likely to boogie to 'em.","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41907804995749,"sku":"014551470113","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/8ae55562b10202f2a3ab7b6535eb89ba.jpg?v=1777677635","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-fr\/products\/hound-dog-taylor-the-houserockers","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}