Hound Dog Taylor - The sun is shining.wmv

Taylor was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1915 (although some sources say 1917). He originally played piano, but began playing guitar when he was 20 and moved to Chicago in 1942.

He became a full-time musician around 1957 but remained unknown outside of the Chicago area where he played small clubs in the black neighborhoods and also at the open-air Maxwell Street Market. He was known for his electrified slide guitar playing roughly styled after that of Elmore James, his cheap Japanese guitars, and his raucous boogie beats. He was also famed among guitar players for having six fingers on his left hand.[2]

After hearing Taylor with his band, the HouseRockers (Brewer Phillips on second guitar and Ted Harvey on drums) in 1970 at Florence's Lounge on Chicago's South Side, Bruce Iglauer - at the time a shipping clerk for Delmark Records - tried to get him signed by his employer.[1] Having no success getting Delmark to sign Taylor, Iglauer formed a small record label with a $2500 inheritance and recorded Taylor's debut album, Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers, on his fledgling Alligator Records in 1971.[1] It was the first release on Alligator records, now a major blues label. It was recorded in a studio in just two nights. Iglauer began managing and booking the band, which toured nationwide and performed with Muddy Waters and Big Mama Thornton.[citation needed] The band became particularly popular in the Boston area, where Taylor inspired a young protege named George Thorogood.

Their second release, Natural Boogie, was recorded in late 1973, and led to greater acclaim and touring. In 1975, Taylor and his band toured Australia and New Zealand with Freddie King and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. His third Alligator album, Beware of the Dog, was recorded live in 1974 but was only released after his death. More posthumous releases occurred as well, including Genuine Houserocking Music and Release the Hound, on the Alligator label as well as some bootleg live recordings.

Taylor died of lung cancer in 1975, and was buried in Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.[3][4]

Taylor was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1984.

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[TearzGypsy]

My gawd. like 100 views? haha damn. I bought this cd like 10 years ago. Someone stole my things. I love this. Thanks for posting mane!

[sambobla]

@TearzGypsy yeah only few of my videos have more than 500 views atm, i wonder why... Well, lots of views is not the reaosn why i keep posting these videos, im satisfied if even 190 people who are my subbers see my stuff :)

[TearzGypsy]

@sambobla Oh I in no way intended to insult you because of the low numbers of views. It's just sad that people will never know great music. They're too busy mirroring themselves off of personified bullshit artists. It's one of the main problems in the U.S. right now. We're praising Lil Wayne, Justin Beiber or some other fake musician. Thank tha Lord for people like you!

[sambobla]

@TearzGypsy no no no dont get me wrong mate i did not grief, i was just wondering why there is so few views :D it really is sad how many people ignore this kind of great music. Yesterday my friend showed me this new PC software called AUTOTUNE, and then he showed me examples from youtube what it does: you cant record yourself talking normally, then you just let autotune add music to your speech and it also mixes your voice so everything sounds like Kanye West or Akon music...

[sambobla]

@sambobla it made me laugh for a long time becouse i realized how easy it really is to make the music they play on the radio xD just search autotune from youtube, you will be amazed... so the fact is new "music" is not really even music.

[TearzGypsy]

@sambobla oh yeah everyone is conforming to the auto-tune thing. Wanna-be's trying to sound like Roger Troutman.

[sambobla]

@TearzGypsy i think it's hilarious! xD it's onlya proof how music is going worse and worse as time goes by... im sure there will be a time when people start thinking: "enough is enough" and they start looking back to the real music and they find a whole new world..

[sambobla]

@kazmanianman Nice to know you found it from my channel, Kaz :) you're welcome!

[kazmanianman]

a very cool tune It took us a bit to find this version Thanks every so much for posting this cool old tune kaz