Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Freddie's Blues

Size: 104,0 MB
Time: 44:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Dust My Broom (3:10)
02. Philip's Crawl (4:06)
03. Freddie's Blues (3:51)
04. Strollin' With Brewer (5:12)
05. It Hurts Me Too (4:15)
06. Jumping With Symphony Sid (4:46)
07. Take Five (2:55)
08. Blues For Suzie (4:50)
09. Roll Your Moneymaker (3:24)
10. Let's Get Funky (4:07)
11. Florence's Blues (3:33)

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. ~Cub Koda

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VA - 1970s Slow Blues Jams

Size: 245,4 MB
Time: 105:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. John Hammond - Guitar King (3:36)
02. Big Mama Thornton - Jail (Live) (5:56)
03. Hound Dog Taylor - Sadie (6:12)
04. Son Seals - Sitting At My Window (4:30)
05. Albert Collins - When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You (5:24)
06. Jimmy Johnson - Your Turn To Cry (5:51)
07. Big Walter Horton - Little Boy Blue (3:12)
08. Left Hand Frank - One Room Country Shack (4:28)
09. Koko Taylor - Walking The Back Streets (6:46)
10. Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Worry, Worry (4:14)
11. Lovie Lee - Nobody Knows My Troubles (5:15)
12. Pinetop Perkins - Blues After Hours (5:00)
13. Lacy Gibson - Drown In My Own Tears (4:40)
14. Fenton Robinson - Going To Chicago (3:50)
15. Lonnie Brooks - Cold, Lonely Nights (4:42)
16. Hound Dog Taylor - Held My Baby Last Night (4:17)
17. Son Seals - Going Back Home (7:03)
18. Koko Taylor - That's Why I'm Crying (4:25)
19. Albert Collins - Conversation With Collins (8:49)
20. Big Mama Thornton - Rock Me Baby (6:42)

1970s Slow Blues Jams

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Various Artists - Chicago Blues From C.J. Records Vol. 1

Year: 1997
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:06
Size: 118,5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Big Moose Walker - Tend To Your Business (2:43)
2. Big Moose Walker - Things I Use To Do (4:32)
3. Hound Dog Taylor - Christine (2:10)
4. Hound Dog Taylor - Alley Music (2:10)
5. Hound Dog Taylor - You Don't Love Me (2:30)
6. Hound Dog Taylor - Christine (2:14)
7. Little Mac Simmons & James Cotton - Jumping At Cadillacs (2:27)
8. Little Mac Simmons - I Need You (2:56)
9. Little Mac Simmons - Come Back (2:33)
10. Little Mac Simmons - My Walking Blues (3:14)
11. Eddie Shaw - Ridin' High (2:09)
12. Eddie Shaw - Blues For The West Side (2:33)
13. Freddie Hall - Love & Affection (2:39)
14. Freddie Hall - You Were My First Love (2:38)
15. Betty Everett w. Al Perkins Band - Please Come Back (2:52)
16. Al Perkins & Band - You Cost Too Much (2:28)
17. Ike Perkins & Band - Ike's Boogie (2:47)
18. The Daffodils w. Ike Perkins' Band - Walk (2:40)
19. Lady Jean & Her Swinging Cats - Teenie Jeannie (2:41)

On this first volume of Chicago Blues from the vaults of C.J. Records we are treated to recordings originally produced by Carl Jones who started in the music business in the mid-1940s as a singer-songwriter. Carl first recorded for Mercury in 1945, where he was accompanied by Lonnie Johnson on guitar. Carl recorded some fine Chicago Blues, Doo Wop and Gospel for his C.J./Colt and Firma labels as Narvel Eatmon a.k.a. Cadillac Baby had done for his Bea & Baby, Keyhole and Miss labels.

Carl and Cadillac Baby were two black music business entrepeneurs who carved out a nitch for themselves by working and helping to establish homegrown talent, many who went on to build nice careers for themselves with a few like Hound Dog Taylor and Betty Everett who achieved national recognition. /Excerpt from the liner notes by Ron Bartolucci

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Various - Bea And Baby Records Presents The Best Of Chicago Blues (Vol. 1 of 3 Volumes)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:53
Size: 153.1 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1994/2017
Art: Front

[3:04] 1. Homesick James - My Baby Gone
[3:18] 2. Homesick James - My Kind Of Woman
[3:15] 3. Homesick James - Homesick Sunnyland Special
[3:03] 4. James Cotton - One More Mile
[1:45] 5. James Cotton - There Must Be A Panic
[2:42] 6. Hound Dog Taylor - My Baby's Coming Home
[2:06] 7. Hound Dog Taylor - Five 'take Five'
[2:04] 8. Eddie Boyd - Thank You Baby
[2:31] 9. Eddie Boyd - Blue Monday Blues
[2:47] 10. Eddie Boyd - The Blues Is Here To Stay
[2:35] 11. Eddie Boyd - I'm Commin' Home
[3:00] 12. Eddie Boyd - All The Way
[2:47] 13. Eddie Boyd - Where You Belong
[2:19] 14. Little Mack Simmons - Don't Come Back
[2:25] 15. Little Mack Simmons - Times Are Getting Tougher
[2:12] 16. Little Mack Simmons - I'm Your Fool
[2:01] 17. Little Mack Simmons - Let Out Of Jail
[2:23] 18. Earl Hooker - Dynamite
[2:48] 19. Bobby Saxton - Trying To Make A Living
[2:26] 20. L.C. Mc.Kinley - Sharpest Man In Town
[3:45] 21. Sunnyland Slim - Too Late To Pray
[2:44] 22. Sunnyland Slim - House Rock
[2:48] 23. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - Special Agent
[3:33] 24. Willie Williams - 38 Woman
[2:21] 25. Willie Williams - Somebody Changed The Lock

For nearly 20 years beginning in 1959, Chicago businessman Narvel Eatmon (aka Cadillac Baby) presided over his Bea & Baby record label, by far the most enduring of his many investments, which included a nightclub, a record store, an appliance repair service, and a confectionary. Some seven years after his demise, Wolf Records released a 24-track sampler from the Bea & Baby catalog. The lineup is very impressive, and reflects the original label's profile pretty well. It includes guitarists Hound Dog Taylor, Homesick James Williamson, L.G. McKinley, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Earl Zebedee Hooker; pianists Eddie Boyd and Sunnyland Slim; blues harpists James Cotton, Carey Bell, and Little Mack Simmons; singing drummer Willie Williams; and vocalists Bobby Saxton and Andrew McMahon. This compilation is very similar to The Best of Cadillac: Meat & Gravy, a Bea & Baby "best-of" released by Culture Press in 1998. Unfortunately, the two simultaneously issued collections have 16 tracks in common. In 2003, Castle Music compounded the confusion by releasing a double-disc Bea & Baby collection called Meat & Gravy. Public comprehension of Cadillac Baby's legacy was muddled even further when the misleadingly titled Cadillac Records, a film based upon the story of the Chess label, came out in 2008. By then the Bea & Baby catalog was being administered by the Earwig Music Company, Inc., and plans were afoot for more careful, comprehensive, and conscientious reissuing. ~arwulf arwulf

Volume 2 tomorrow.
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Hound Dog Taylor - Give Me Back My Wig (2 Parts)

Hound Dog Taylor was born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor, named after the US President. He was born with six fingers on each hand. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, his childhood was not an easy one. When he was only 9 years old, his step father supposedly packed up all of his things in a brown paper bag, stood in the doorway with a shotgun, and told Hound Dog to "cut out". That's the way the story goes anyway. From info I've gathered from people who knew him, this story may or may not be true. But he did go to live with his older sister around that time in his life.

The first instrument Taylor learned to play was not the guitar, but piano, which he learned as a kid. He first picked up the guitar while in his teens but didn't start to seriously play until he was around 21. At that time he started playing all over the Delta, not only playing guitar, but piano, too. He also appeared a few times on the legendary King Biscuit Flour radio show of KFFA in West Helena, Arkansas, with Sonny Boy Williamson. In 1942, Taylor, always the ladies man, was chased out of Mississippi one day by the Klan after having an affair with a white woman. He spent the first day hiding in drainage ditches and then the next day he headed for Chicago. He never went back. Although he continued to play his guitar semi-professionally at night, he spent the first 15 years in Chicago working several different non music jobs. In 1957 he was building TV cabinets when he decided to become a full-time bluesman. At this time he also changed his playing style. Where he once played standard and E tunings, he now was playing an increasingly more bottleneck style. This change came about by his being heavy influenced by the then emerging Elmore James.

Early on he garnered a huge local following with his wild live shows, most of the time he would be sitting on a folding chair, stomping both feet, throwing his head back in a frency, drinking Canadian Club and puffing on his cigarettes, urging the crowd to get up and dance, as he blared away on his guitar. Taylor became one of Chicago's most loved bluesmen and a local favorite on the South and West sides of town. It was during this time that he picked up the name "Hound Dog". He was in a club one night chasing a couple of women around when a friend called him a hound dog because he was always on the hunt for woman. The name stuck. It was also around this time when one night, a drunken Hound would, with a straight razor, cut off the small extra finger on his right hand.

Hound Dog's band, the HouseRockers, would come about slowly. In 1959 while playing in a West Side tavern, a guitarist named Brewer Phillips (also born in Mississippi) gigged with the Dog for the first time. The two became quick friends and Phillips would become the HouseRockers second guitarist. ~Partial bio by Keno

Album: Give Me Back My Wig Part 1
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:48
Size: 148.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. She's Gone
[3:34] 2. Give Me Back My Wig
[5:05] 3. Let's Get Funky
[3:55] 4. Taylor's Rock
[3:01] 5. Fender Bender
[2:22] 6. Crossroads
[2:41] 7. Take Five
[3:49] 8. Rock Me
[3:38] 9. Blue Guitar
[2:22] 10. Phillips Screwdriver
[6:30] 11. Freddie's Blues
[3:05] 12. The Dog Meets The Wolf
[5:02] 13. Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
[2:39] 14. Hawaiian Boogie
[2:52] 15. 44 Blues
[3:12] 16. I Just Can't Make It
[3:14] 17. t's Alright
[3:49] 18. Kansas City

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Album: Give Me Back My Wig Part 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:39
Size: 175.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:55] 1. My Baby's Coming Home
[2:26] 2. One More Time
[3:38] 3. Wild About You, Baby
[5:32] 4. Phillip's Theme
[3:29] 5. Ain't Got Nobody
[4:17] 6. Held My Baby Last Night
[5:26] 7. Ain't It Lonesome
[5:32] 8. The Sun Is Shining
[4:01] 9. Roll Your Moneymaker
[6:10] 10. Sadie
[9:01] 11. See Me In The Evening It's Alright
[3:52] 12. It Hurts Me Too
[3:13] 13. Talk To My Baby Aka I Can't Hold Out
[3:17] 14. Walking On The Ceiling
[2:38] 15. Phillips Goes Bananas
[4:20] 16. Sitting At Home Alone
[3:18] 17. Buster's Boogie
[3:25] 18. You Can't Sit Down

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Hound Dog Taylor - Live At Joe's Place

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:51
Size: 121.0 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1990/2002
Art: Front

[4:18] 1. Kitchen Sink Boogie
[4:02] 2. Phillips Crawl
[5:27] 3. Wild About You Baby
[5:17] 4. Kansas City
[4:45] 5. Mama Talk To Your Daughter
[5:34] 6. The Sky Is Crying
[4:06] 7. It Hurts Me Too
[3:38] 8. Dust My Broom
[9:28] 9. Freddy's Blues
[3:42] 10. Give Me Back My Wig
[2:28] 11. Take Five

1972 live recordings in Boston. They're drunk, they're out of tune, but the crowd goes nuts and the overall vibe cancels out any musical inconsistencies. Doesn't really add anything to the Alligator legacy, as it's extremely loose and chaotic, but it's great fun anyway. ~Cub Koda

Live At Joe's Place

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VA - Alligator Blues Guitar

Size: 172,5 MB
Time: 73:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Michael Burks - Hit The Ground Running (3:26)
02 Joe Louis Walker - Too Drunk To Drive Drunk (3:54)
03 Hound Dog Taylor - Take Five (2:42)
04 Sonny Landreth - Taylor's Rock (3:57)
05 Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland - Albert's Alley (4:06)
06 Guitar Shorty - I've Been Working (4:32)
07 Johnny Winter - See See Baby (3:09)
08 Eddy The Chief Clearwater - Too Old To Get Married (3:53)
09 Coco Montoya - It Takes Time (4:49)
10 Luther Allison - Give Me Back My Wig (4:45)
11 Fenton Robinson - West Side Baby (5:03)
12 Roy Buchanan - You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover (3:21)
13 Long John Hunter - Ice Cold (4:21)
14 Elvin Bishop - The Skin They're In (4:02)
15 Tinsley Ellis - Amanda (4:19)
16 Left Hand Frank - One Room Country Shack (4:28)
17 Son Seals - Frank And Johnnie (4:26)
18 Lonnie Brooks - I Want All My Money Back (4:33)

Alligator Blues Guitar

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The Houserockers - Have Some Fun (Feat. Hound Dog Taylor, Brewer Phillips & Ted Harvey)

Size: 116,2 MB
Time: 49:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Electric Chicago Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
Art: Full

01. Gonna Send You Back To Georgia (5:34)
02. Taylor's Crawl (4:42)
03. Rock Me Baby (7:08)
04. Good Nite Boogie (3:17)
05. Wild About You Baby (4:36)
06. Jumping With Symphony Sid (4:05)
07. The Things I Used To Do (4:37)
08. Phillips Stomp (3:23)
09. I Just Can't Take It (3:14)
10. What Do I Say (1:55)
11. Ingleside Blues (7:08)

More 1972 live recordings from Joe's Place.

Have Some Fun

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Various - The Finest Southern Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 85:30
Size: 195.7 MB
Styles: Southern blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. Charlie Musselwhite - Taylor, Arkansas
[3:23] 2. Johnny Shines - If I Get Lucky
[4:21] 3. Big Leon Brooks - Country Boy
[3:19] 4. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Louisiana Zydeco
[2:44] 5. Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years
[5:52] 6. W.C. Clark - Tip Of My Tongue
[9:31] 7. Tinsley Ellis - Time To Quit
[3:21] 8. Phillip Walker - Roll, Roll, Roll
[6:28] 9. Johnny Copeland - Blackjack
[3:49] 10. William Clarke - Lollipop Mama
[7:13] 11. Big Mama Thornton - Ball 'n' Chain
[2:54] 12. The Song Trust - Dawg Tired
[2:37] 13. Carey Bell - That Ain't It
[2:36] 14. Bobby Lee Trammell - Come On And Love Me
[3:55] 15. C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band - Louisiana Down Home Blues
[2:09] 16. Willie Johnson Combo - So Long Baby Goodbye
[3:40] 17. Andrew Brown - Morning, Noon And Night
[4:34] 18. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Five Long Years
[6:29] 19. Hound Dog Taylor - Phillips' Theme
[3:42] 20. Rev. Gary Davis - I Won't Be Back No More

When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.

The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century. Its inventors were slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves—African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields. It's generally accepted that the music evolved from African spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music. The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today. Unlike jazz, the blues didn't spread out significantly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and '40s. Once the Delta blues made their way up the Mississippi to urban areas, the music evolved into electrified Chicago blues, other regional blues styles, and various jazz-blues hybrids. A decade or so later the blues gave birth to rhythm 'n blues and rock 'n roll. ~Ed Kopp

The Finest Southern Blues

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Various - Automobile Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:44
Size: 155.1 MB
Styles: Assorted styles
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[5:50] 1. Guitar Shorty - Fine Cadillac
[3:28] 2. Coco Montoya - Back In A Cadillac
[4:23] 3. Magic Slim & The Teardrops - Stranded On The Highway
[3:16] 4. Phil Wiggins - Me And My Chauffeur Blues
[3:44] 5. C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band - Road Dog
[4:35] 6. William Clarke - Going Down This Highway
[3:31] 7. William Clarke - Drivin' My Life Away
[4:35] 8. Kinsey Report - Midnight Drive
[3:37] 9. Long John Hunter - V-8 Ford
[4:58] 10. Long John Hunter - I'm Broke
[3:33] 11. Carey Bell - Little Car Blues
[3:09] 12. Lonnie Mack - Me And My Car
[3:24] 13. Long John Hunter - Bugs On My Window
[2:35] 14. Junior Wells - Stop Breaking Down
[2:04] 15. James Cotton Blues Band - Rocket 88
[3:56] 16. Jim Kweskin - Chevrolet
[1:05] 17. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Car Song
[2:52] 18. John Hammond, Jr. - My Starter Won't Start
[3:00] 19. Hound Dog Taylor - Fender Bender

Cars had become one of the centers of American life by the 1920s and plenty of blues musicians we’re singing about them. It’s interesting that Blind Lemon Jefferson sang in several songs about driving cars, something he could never do as a blind man. In 1931, Memphis Minnie sang about her house burning down, but the only thing she’s worried about is losing her car. Robert Johnson sang some of the most poetic lyrics sexualizing the car as a woman. Modern day bluesmen have continued singing about cars as these titles show.

Automobile Blues

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Various - Blues: S**t My Dad Listened To

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:10
Size: 149.2 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:49] 1. Hound Dog Taylor - Rock Me
[2:39] 2. Junior Wells - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
[2:28] 3. John Hammond, Jr. - Seventh Son
[3:18] 4. Kenneth Banks - Blue Man
[5:29] 5. Michael Messer - Robert Johnson's Wake
[4:01] 6. Corey Harris & Henry Butler - King Cotton
[2:18] 7. James Cotton Blues Band - Cotton Crop Blues
[2:34] 8. Howlin' Wolf - Dorothy Mae
[3:13] 9. William Clarke - Fishin' Blues
[3:39] 10. Lil Charlie & The Nightcats - My Money's Green
[5:12] 11. Koko Taylor - The Man Next Door
[5:05] 12. Shemekia Copeland - The Fool You're Looking For
[2:41] 13. Charlie Musselwhite - My Road Lies
[2:32] 14. Kenny Neal - Early One Morning
[3:11] 15. Jimmy Johnson Blues Band - Ain't That Just Like A Woman
[3:01] 16. Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson - Just Like Mama Said
[3:48] 17. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Digging New Ground
[2:58] 18. Billy Boy Arnold - Move On Down The Road
[3:07] 19. The Holmes Brothers - Rounding Third

Blues: S**t My Dad Listened To

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VA - Wolf Records 20th Anniversary Collection

Size: 171,3 MB
Time: 73:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003/2015
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01 Vaan Shaw - Morning Rain (5:11)
02 Michael Coleman - Shake Your Booty (4:29)
03 Larry Garner - Nobody Special (3:37)
04 Vance Kelly - Woman In Every Town (6:03)
05 John Primer - Blues Behind Closed Doors (6:56)
06 Dana Gillespie - Blue Temptation (4:19)
07 Magic Slim - Spider In My Stew (4:34)
08 Jimmy Rogers - Last Time (2:51)
09 Muddy Waters - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (2:42)
10 Albert King - I Wonder Why (6:06)
11 Hound Dog Taylor - Dust My Broom (3:07)
12 Pinetop Perkins - I'm Gonna Let You Go (3:30)
13 Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues (4:24)
14 Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Men's A Fool (3:22)
15 Sonny Boy Williamson I - Bluebird Blues (3:07)
16 Memphis Minnie - Hold Me Blues (No. 2) (2:41)
17 Roosevelt Sykes - Drivin' Wheel (2:54)
18 Son House - My Black Mama, Pt. 1 (3:08)

There's no doubting the quality of blues that Wolf Records has been releasing over the last two decades; what this collection shows is its breadth. From the Delta stylings of Son House, with a superb take on "My Black Mama," to the easier, West Coast feel of Charles Brown, the raw Chicago pump of Muddy Waters on "Hoochie Coochie Man," and even as far as British blues, in the person of Dana Gillespie, the label has indeed covered the waterfront. In addition to the big names, they've also showcased some lesser-known (but equally talented) performers like John Primer and Larry Garner who deserve a wider hearing, certainly on the basis of the tracks included here. Louisiana guitar whiz Garner might be from a younger generation, but the roots of his blues still run deep. Still, it's impossible to deny the power of the old masters -- or even mistresses, as Memphis Minnie is superbly featured on "Hold Me Blues" -- like Roosevelt Sykes, whose piano style was always unmistakable, while the late Hound Dog Taylor lets his wild slide style loose on the classic "Dust My Broom." In many ways, this stands as more than a birthday party for a label, it's almost a primer on the development of the blues -- and for a label to be able to do that shows just how good they are. ~by Chris Nickson

Wolf Records 20th Anniversary Collection

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Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers - Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1971
Styles: Blues
Time: 44:25
Size: 102,4 MB
Covers: Full

(3:51) 1. She's Gone
(3:18) 2. Walking the Ceiling
(4:17) 3. Held My Baby Last Night
(3:55) 4. Taylor's Rock
(3:14) 5. It's Alright
(5:31) 6. Phillips' Theme
(3:39) 7. Wild About You, Baby
(3:12) 8. I Just Can't Make It
(3:53) 9. It Hurts Me Too
(2:53) 10. 44 Blues
(3:35) 11. Give Me Back My Wig
(3:04) 12. 55th Street Boogie

If you think the slide guitar blues of Elmore James is as loud and ragged as music can be, then you've never heard Hound Dog Taylor. Born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1915, he didn't pick up the guitar until he was 20, and was instantly smitten by the rawboned sound players like James got by slipping a slide across the strings of an electric guitar. The raw, boogie style of his trio (with Brewer Phillips on second guitar and Ted Harvey on drums) was nurtured over endless nights in Chicago blues clubs. Sometimes, Phillips plays a single-note lead guitar that suggests Buddy Guy on a bender. More often, the trio slams out a boogie beat that is topped by Taylor's slide guitar, an electrified whine that's about as subtle as a broken bottle on a tavern floor. This 1971 album was the first release by Alligator Records, which went on to become a major independent label specializing in contemporary blues. -- Amazon.
The first album and the perfect place to start. Wild, raucous, crazy music straight out of the South Side clubs. The incessant drive of Hound Dog's playing is best heard on "Give Me Back My Wig," "55th Street Boogie," and "Taylor's Rock," while the sound of Brewer Phillips' Telecaster on "Phillips' Theme" gives new meaning to the phrase "sheet metal tone." One of the greatest slide guitar albums of all time. -- Allmusic.

Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers

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Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers - Natural Boogie

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:32
Size: 92.8 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1973/1989
Art: Front

[2:41] 1. Take Five
[2:39] 2. Hawaiian Boogie
[5:04] 3. See Me In The Evening
[3:20] 4. You Can't Sit Down
[4:16] 5. Sitting At Home Alone
[2:23] 6. One More Time
[4:00] 7. Roll Your Moneymaker
[3:18] 8. Buster's Boogie
[6:10] 9. Sadie
[3:13] 10. Talk To My Baby Aka I Can't Hold Out
[3:23] 11. Goodnight Boogie

Hound Dog Taylor's second album was every bit as wild as the first, bringing with it a fatter sound and a wider range of emotions and music. A recut here of Taylor's first single, "Take Five," totally burns the original while the smoldering intensity of "See Me in the Evening" and "Sadie" take this album to places the first one never reached. ~Cub Koda

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VA - Telephone Blues: 23 Rare Blues Tracks

Size: 229,3 MB
Time: 98:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Detroit Junior - Some Nerve (3:06)
02 John Hammond - Long Distance Call (3:17)
03 Son Seals - Telephone Angel Aka You're On My Mind (5:24)
04 Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women - 1-800-799-7233 (5:32)
05 Long John Hunter - Trouble On The Line (4:57)
06 Kinsey Report - Answering Machine (5:39)
07 Jimmy Johnson - Your Turn To Cry (5:51)
08 Lonnie Brooks - Wrong Number (3:17)
09 Son Seals - Call My Job (4:40)
10 Shemekia Copeland - Suspicion (3:56)
11 C.J. Chenier - You Used To Call Me (3:57)
12 Hound Dog Taylor - Talk To My Baby Aka I Can't Hold Out (3:13)
13 Lucky Peterson - Can't Get No Loving On The Telephone (3:18)
14 William Clarke - Telephone Is Ringing (4:48)
15 Big Mama Thornton - Private Number (6:20)
16 The Holmes Brothers - He'll Have To Go (2:57)
17 Son Seals - I Can't Hold Out (4:13)
18 Michael Hill's Blues Mob - Wrong Number (5:40)
19 Lil Ed & The Blues Imperials - Don't Call Me (3:06)
20 Bnois King - Don't Lose My Number (3:31)
21 Siegel-Schwall - 334-3599 (2:31)
22 Son Seals - No, No Baby (4:27)
23 The Robert Cray Band - Phone Booth (4:38)

Telephone Blues

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Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Deluxe Edition

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:23
Size: 140.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. Wild About You, Baby
[4:13] 2. The Sun Is Shining
[3:59] 3. Roll Your Moneymaker
[4:34] 4. Give Me Back My Wig
[3:15] 5. Walking On The Ceiling
[4:57] 6. See Me In The Evening
[2:36] 7. Phillips Goes Bananas
[3:51] 8. It Hurts Me Too
[2:53] 9. What'd I Say
[3:47] 10. Rock Me
[6:31] 11. Phillips' Theme
[2:41] 12. Take Five
[3:49] 13. She's Gone
[5:25] 14. Ain't It Lonesome
[3:29] 15. Ain't Got Nobody
[1:39] 16. Hound Dog Talks (Hidden Track)

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

Deluxe Edition mc
Deluxe Edition zippy

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Various - Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues (3-CD set)

This 2003 compilation highlights the rich heritage of the Chicago blues scene with 70 tracks from the likes of 'Big' Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, Memphis Minnie, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, 'Big' Joe Turner, 'Big Joe' Williams, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, 'Mighty' Joe Young, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Joe Carter, & many more.

Album: Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues - CD 1: Roots & 'Race Recordings' 1925-45
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:00
Size: 169.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2003
Art: Full

[2:58] 1. Tommy McClennan - Baby Don't You Want To Go
[2:47] 2. Papa Charlie Jackson - Maxwell Street Blues
[2:46] 3. Pinetop And Lindberg - East Chicago Blues
[3:06] 4. Bessie Smith - Chicago Bound Blues
[2:41] 5. Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway
[2:55] 6. Peetie Wheatstraw - Chicago Mill Blues
[3:00] 7. Big Bill Broonzy - C&A Blues
[3:12] 8. Tampa Red - Boogie Woogie Dance
[2:37] 9. Big Maceo - Kid Man Blues
[2:55] 10. Chippie Hill - Hard Time Blues
[3:12] 11. Sparks Brothers - Chicago's Too Much For Me
[3:03] 12. Sonny Boy Williamson - Western Union Man
[2:52] 13. Little Bill Gaither - Creole Queen
[3:06] 14. Cow Cow Davenport - - Jim Crow Blues
[3:12] 15. Rosa Henderson - Chicago Monkey Man Blues
[2:56] 16. Washboard Sam - Diggin' My Potatoes
[2:57] 17. Memphis Slim - See My Great Mistake
[3:02] 18. Big Bill Broonzy - I.C. Blues
[3:04] 19. Roosevelt Sykes - Drivin' Wheel
[3:12] 20. Big Boy Crudup - Chicago Blues
[2:47] 21. Memphis Minnie - Me & My Chauffeur
[2:48] 22. Robert Nighthawk - Friar's Point Blues
[2:48] 23. Sonny Boy Williamson - Little Low Woman Blues
[2:54] 24. Robert Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me
[2:59] 25. Joe Turner - Goin' To Chicago Blues

thank you mrwalker.
Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues - CD 1: Roots & 'Race Recordings' 1925-45

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Album: Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues - CD 2: The Golden Age 1946-52
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:50
Size: 164.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2003
Art: Full

[2:55] 1. Eddie Boyd - Chicago Is Just That Way
[2:56] 2. Big Bill Broonzy - You've Been Mistreating Me
[2:56] 3. Lee Brown - Horse Shoe Boogie
[3:11] 4. Big Joe Williams - P Wine Blues
[2:36] 5. Jazz Gillum - The Blues What Am
[3:02] 6. St Louis Jimmy - One Doggone Reason
[2:57] 7. Big Maceo - Chicago Breakdown
[2:19] 8. Snooky & Moody - Boogie
[2:42] 9. Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied
[2:35] 10. Sonny Boy Williamson - Mellow Chick Swing
[3:03] 11. Robert Nighthawk - Black Angel Blues
[2:41] 12. Man Young - Let Me Ride Your Mule
[2:55] 13. Roosevelt Sykes - Fine & Brown
[2:28] 14. Floyd Jones - Hard Times
[2:54] 15. J.B. Lenoir - Let's Roll
[3:08] 16. Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake
[2:50] 17. Baby Face Leroy - Rollin' & Tumblin'
[2:54] 18. Little Walter - I Just Keep Lovin' Her
[3:14] 19. Baby Face Leroy - Rollin' & Tumblin'
[2:20] 20. Tampa Red - She's Dynamite
[2:34] 21. Howlin' Wolf - Saddle My Pony
[3:16] 22. Delta Joe - Roll Tumble & Slip
[2:51] 23. Memphis Slim - Nobody Loves Me
[3:20] 24. Jimmy Rogers - Chance To Love
[2:59] 25. Big Boy Crudup - I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole

thank you mrwalker.
Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues - CD 2: The Golden Age 1946-52

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Album: Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues - CD 3: Into The Rock Era, The 60s And Beyond
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:28
Size: 181.9 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2003
Art: Full

[4:33] 1. Muddy Waters - She's Nineteen Years Old
[4:08] 2. David Honeyboy Edwards - Big Katie Allen
[2:41] 3. Hound Dog Taylor - My Baby's Coming Home
[2:58] 4. Jimmy Reed - Hard Walking Hannah
[2:45] 5. Eddie Boyd - The Blues Is Here To Stay
[4:48] 6. Willie Dixon - Spoonful
[6:21] 7. Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues
[3:07] 8. Homesick James - My Baby's Gone
[3:22] 9. Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man
[4:03] 10. Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle
[4:23] 11. Fenton Robinson - Somebody Please Loan Me A Dime
[3:11] 12. Eddie C Campbell - Look What You Done
[4:49] 13. Eddie Clearwater - I Don't Know Why
[3:06] 14. James Cotton - One More Mile
[5:43] 15. Luther Allison - You're Gonna Need Me
[2:24] 16. Little Mac - Times Are Gettin' Tougher
[3:47] 17. Sunnyland Slim - Too Late To Pray
[4:13] 18. Carey Bell - You Went Away Baby
[4:16] 19. Byther Smith - Tell Me How You Like It
[4:39] 20. Joe Carter - Sweet Home Chicago

thank you mrwalker.
Sweet Home Chicago: A History Of Chicago Blues - CD 3: Into The Rock Era, The 60s And Beyond

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Various - Bright Lights Big City: Urban Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 64:14
Size: 147.0 MB
Styles: Urban blues, Chicago blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. A.C. Reed - Going To New York
[4:29] 2. John Hammond - Sweet Home Chicago
[3:49] 3. Hound Dog Taylor - Kansas City
[5:23] 4. Luther Allison - Big City
[3:06] 5. James Cotton - Born In Chicago
[3:20] 6. Kenny Neal - Big City Ways
[5:24] 7. Buddy Guy - Hello San Francisco
[3:54] 8. A.C. Reed - Moving Out Of The Ghetto
[3:52] 9. Roomful Of Blues - New Orleans
[4:59] 10. Roy Buchanan - Chicago Smokeshop
[4:52] 11. Big Mama Thornton - Lost City
[3:46] 12. Charlie Musselwhite - Mean Ole Frisco
[4:50] 13. Peggy Scott - Big City Blues
[4:59] 14. Michael Hill's Blues Mob - Living For The City
[3:20] 15. John Lee Hooker - Bus Station Blues

After World War II, the use of electrified instruments became inevitable. During the 1940s, some blues bands even incorporated saxophones, although the preference was for amplified harmonicas, especially in Chicago, a predominant center of blues recording in the 1950s. Blues from this period is often called “urban blues,” “electric blues,” or simply “Chicago blues.” Important urban blues musicians included Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, T-Bone Walker, and B. B. King.

Blues remains with us in contemporary American culture, and as a traditional musical form it has been subjected to countless revivals and reinterpretations. Its current practitioners often integrate the sounds and instrumental pyrotechnics of rock music and the sheen of urban soul; but the twelve-bar form, variations on the blues chord progression, and emotive lyrical content remain relatively unchanged.

Bright Lights Big City: Urban Blues mc
Bright Lights Big City: Urban Blues zippy

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Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Genuine Houserockin' Music

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:20
Size: 80.9 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1982/1992
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Ain't Got Nobody
[5:02] 2. Gonna Send You Back To Georgia
[3:00] 3. Fender Bender
[2:55] 4. My Baby's Coming Home
[3:39] 5. Blue Guitar
[5:31] 6. The Sun Is Shining
[2:36] 7. Phillips Goes Bananas
[2:53] 8. What'd I Say
[3:51] 9. Kansas City
[2:21] 10. Crossroads

With Alligator label prexy Bruce Iglauer recording some 20 or 30 tracks over two nights everytime the band went into the studio, there were bound to be some really great tracks lurking in the vaults and these are it. Noteworthy for the great performance of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads," (previously only available as a Japanese 45) but also for the "rock & roll" inclusion of "What'd I Say" and Brewer Phillips' take on "Kansas City." No bottom of the barrel scrapings here. ~Cub Koda

Genuine Houserockin' Music mc
Genuine Houserockin' Music zippy

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Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Beware Of The Dog!

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:12
Size: 92.0 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Slide guitar blues
Year: 1976/2007
Art: Front

[4:35] 1. Give Me Back My Wig
[4:31] 2. The Sun Is Shining
[4:16] 3. Kitchen Sink Boogie
[3:15] 4. Dust My Broom
[3:54] 5. Comin' Around The Mountain
[5:05] 6. Let's Get Funky
[4:00] 7. Rock Me
[4:01] 8. It's Alright
[6:30] 9. Freddie's Blues

Beware of the Dog was Hound Dog Taylor's posthumous live album containing performances that are even steamier than his first two studio albums, if such a notion is possible. For lowdown slow blues, it's hard to beat the heartfelt closer "Freddie's Blues," and for surreal moments on wax, it's equally hard to beat the funkhouse-turned-loony bin dementia of "Let's Get Funky" or the hopped up hillbilly fever rendition of "Comin' Around the Mountain." ~Cub Koda

Beware Of The Dog!

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