Goodnight Boogie: A Tale of Guns, Wolves & the Blues of Hound Dog Taylor Rogers Matt
Goodnight Boogie: A Tale of Guns, Wolves & the Blues of Hound Dog Taylor Rogers Matt Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. Off stage, his life was as wild as his music. A founding father…
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Goodnight Boogie: A Tale of Guns, Wolves & the Blues of Hound Dog Taylor Rogers Matt
Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. Off stage, his life was as wild as his music. A founding father of lo-fi blues rock--that gritty, stripped-down sound played on cheap guitars with no bass--Taylor and his band The HouseRockers played loud, wild gut-bucket boogie that was raw and ferocious, earning them a reputation as "The Ramones of the blues." Though his influence continues to be heard in the music of contemporary musicians such as Jack White, The Black Keys, and others, Hound Dog Taylor's story has never been fully explored.
The threat of bloodshed was constant, whether from the Ku Klux Klan, South Side gangs, or even fellow musicians. From his childhood in 1920s Mississippi to his final years in 1970s Chicago, he was surrounded by racism, crime, and violence. From drunkenly slicing off his sixth finger with a straight razor, to becoming the artist whose music