The Raw Music—and Rough-Edged Life—of Bluesman Hound Dog Taylor

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There aren’t many artists who can say that someone created an entire record label and business for the sole purpose of putting out an album by them (and in fact, this might be the only instance). But that’s what superfan Bruce Iglauer did for his favorite local Chicago blues band,...

There aren’t many artists who can say that someone created an entire record label and business for the sole purpose of putting out an album by them .

Despite grinding it out for more than a dozen years in Chicago clubs to mostly Black audiences, Taylor found it hard to break through on a national level. Earlier in his life, Taylor claims to have shown Elmore James the song “Dust My Broom” and his slide guitar technique—the single song would skyrocket James to stardom.

What did set Taylor apart was his musical stylings and his band. With Taylor on guitar and lead vocals, Brewer Phillips on second guitar, and Ted Harvey on drums , the trio played a raw, distorted, more hard-edged blues sound, accented by Taylor’s preference for cheap Japanese electric guitars and amps that made fuzzy sounds.

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