A1 	Kitchen Sink Boogie
A2 	Phillips Crawl
A3 	Wild About You Baby
A4 	Kansas City
A5 	Mama Talk To Your Daughter
B1 	The Sky Is Crying
B2 	It Hurts Me Too
B3 	Dust My Broom
B4 	Freddy's Blues
B5 	Give Me Back My Wig
B6 	Take Five

Drums – Ted Harvey
Guitar, Vocals – Brewer Phillips, Hound Dog Taylor 

Recording made in concert at Joe's Place Inman Square, Cambridge,Mass.,in 1972. 

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. ---Cube Koda, AllMusic Review

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1 	Everything Is All Right 	4:52
2 	Blues For John Sinclair 	4:35
3 	Wild About You Baby 	4:35
4 	Roll You Money Maker 	4:25
5 	Ted Harvey's Slam 	5:55
6 	Mighty Crazy 	3:47
7 	1000 Miles From Nowhere 	3:00

Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor - Vocals, Guitar
Brewer Phillips - Guitar
Ted Harvey - Drums

Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival (Evening) 	09/09/1973

Hound Dog Taylor was born in 1915 in Mississippi. He was born with 6 (six!) fingers in each hand, and his first instrument wasn’t the guitar – it was the piano. However, by the time he was in his twenties he has sold his Blues soul to a super-cheap Japanese teisco guitar with a slide. His resulting trademark sound was dirty, messy, raw and totally unheard of at the time.

He quickly gathered a loyal following with his wild and unpredictable shows, and became a favorite in the Chicago South and Westside. In the 60s he formed his band, Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers. All their shows started with him shouting “Hey! Let’s have some fun!” before he became a tight little wad of energy and frenzy. Punk rock, anyone? He died in 1975 and his epitaph was already written by him, several decades ago. His tombstone reads “He couldn’t play sh*t, but he sure made it sound good!” A true artist!

Old school Blues guitarists like Hound Dog Taylor were a HUGE inspiration for the Electric Loog Guitar (that also got some news this week on Kickstarter, if you’re interested). Vintage pickups with some distortion and a slide can sound AMAZING, something you can’t really get with a standard or expensive guitar – that’s why lots of professional guitar players hunt down these old, beaten-up, super cheap guitars – Jack White’s a huge example of this, and a big fan of the Hound Dog Taylor sound. ---loogguitars.com

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01. Give Me Back My Wig (4:36)
02. The Sun Is Shining (4:32)
03. Kitchen Sink Boogie (4:17)
04. Dust My Broom (3:17)
05. Comin' Around The Mountain (3:56)
06. Let's Get Funky (5:06)
07. Rock Me (4:01)
08. It's Alright (4:03)
09. Freddie's Blues (6:31)

Musicians:
    Hound Dog Taylor – vocals, slide guitar
    Brewer Philips – guitar
    Ted Harvey – drums

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, AllMusic Review

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A1 Ain’t Got Nobody 3:30					play
A2 Gonna Send You Back To Georgia 5:03
A3 Fender Bender 3:01
A4 My Baby’s Coming Home 2:54
A5 Blue Guitar 3:38
B1 The Sun Is Shining 5:31
B2 Phillips Goes Bananas 2:36
B3 What’d I Say 2:53
B4 Kansas City 3:49							play
B5 Crossroads 2:22

Personnel:
Hound Dog Taylor - Guitars and Vocals
Brewer Phillips - Guitars, Vocal on Kansas City
Ted Harvey – Drums

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, allmusic.com

"They ran on equal parts brotherly love, vicious adolescent rivalry, and Canadian Club", says producer Bruce Iglauer in the liner notes to this album. "They" being Theodore 'Hound Dog' Taylor and his Houserockers, the rowdy two-man backing band consisting of drummer Ted Harvey and guitarist Brewer Phillips (who was only ever called 'Phillips').

This is electric blues of the least polished kind, really. Middle-aged when he first started recording, Hound Dog had eleven fingers until he amputated one of them himself with a razor blade. He played an ultra-cheap, beat-up old Japanese guitar with the sawed-off leg from an equally cheap kitchen chair for a slide. He started every other song with Elmore James' "Dust My Broom"-riff, and he barked out his joyous boogies and lengthy blues shuffles in his nasal, unvaried baritone. But, like he himself said, "he couldn't play s**t, but he sure made it sound good."

This collection of outtakes was only released in 1982, seven years after Hound Dog's untimely death, but it features material recorded in 1971, 1972, and 1973, but not included on Hound Dog's two Alligator Records LPs. It's a standart batch of rollicking blues n' boogie, with a couple of nondescript instrumentals thrown in for good measure, and one really enoyable one, "Phillips Goes Bananas". Hound Dog and co. do especially well by Elmore James' "The Sun is Shining" and Johnnie Mae Matthews' "Gonna Send You Back to Georgia", but Hound Dog's own "Ain't Got Nobody" is very enjoyable as well, even if it a total blues cliché all the way through, and the trio do a lively, melodic rendition of Jerry Leiber's and Mike Stoller's "Kansas City" and a pretty convincing "Crossroads", the classic Robert Johnson tune, played as a fiery, mid-tempo swagger. (Well, Hound Dog played almost everything as a fiery, mid-tempo swagger.)

This is almost all covers, and to me Taylor's first two studio albums for Alligator, 1971's self-titled debut and 1973's "Natural Boogie" are ultimately more interesting purchases with a more varied selection (such as it was with Hound Dog) and more original tunes. "Genuine Houserocking Music" is good, solid blues, and there is something quite irresistable about Hound Dog and his unwavering enthusiasm for his craft, but I would advise newcomers to start with "Natural Boogie" or "Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers". The live "Beware of the Dog" is recommendable as well, but this one is mostly for serious fans. --- Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae), amazon.com

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1. Take Five 2:44 
2. Hawaiian Boogie 2:42 
3. See Me In The Evening 5:08 
4. You Can't Sit Down 3:25 
5. Sitting At Home Alone 4:19 
6. One More Time 2:26 
7. Roll Your Moneymaker 4:02 
8. Buster's Boogie 3:22 
9. Sadie 6:13 
10. Talk To My Baby aka I Can't Hold Out 3:17 
11. Goodnight Boogie 3:24 

Musicians:
Hound Dog Taylor (Guitar,Vocals), 
Ted Harvey (Drums), 
Brewer Phillips (Guitar).

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 Coda, allmusic.com

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