Click on any format below to hear a sound sample. Help with Sound Samples. Windows Media 10. Windows Media 13. With a cheesy Japanese axe and battered amps, botttleneck blues specialist Hound Dog Taylor got more distortion than you'll hear from a mall full of shredders with the latest FX frippery.
Material is culled from four albums, here along with two previously unreleased items.
Hound Dog barks out the lyrics, seemingly duty-bound to do so quickly, in tune with the song's frenzied gait. Three tunes are from Beware of the Dog , an album cut at a legendary Cleveland show in 1974. They careen and surge, perfectly representative of the dizzying intensity of a Hound Dog club date. The corporeal Hound Dog left us in 1975, but via this compilation, his music is still here to rock our houses. Inc. All rights reserved.