Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Give Me Back My Wig

Taylor, Eyeball Music, BMI

No one made a more wonderfully glorious racket than Hound Dog, Brewer Phillips and Ted Harvey. Before cutting their first album, they filled the little South Side clubs, boogie-ing all night long on cheap guitars and decrepit amplifiers. When someone requested a song, Hound Dog would holler “I’m wit’you, baby, I’m wit’you!” Only four years passed between their debut album and Hound Dog’s death, but they built such a fanatic audience that they played New York’s Philharmonic Hall and toured as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Hound Dog said, “When I die, they’ll say ‘he couldn’t play ****, but he sure made it sound good!’” He sure did.