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Product Description Alligator Records presents another addition to it's series of special compilations celebrating the essential recording of our modern blues master, the best of slide-boogie master Hound Dog Taylor. Featuring previously unreleased tracks among over 60 minutes of choice cuts. All must has been digitally remastered in 20-bit audio. Packaging continues the classy Deluxe Edition look, including never-before-published photos and a special mini-poster insert in addition to a fully annotated booklet. Amazon.com One could conceivably argue that Hound Dog Taylor was a blues punk; he favored energy, excitement, and above all, fun over minor considerations like, say, tuning. It's that exuberance that carries the day on this best-of collection. It's all material from Taylor's too-brief stint at Alligator in the 1970s (he died in 1975), but it's all good blues--blues good enough to launch a record label. Taylor's guitar is grungy enough to get a starring role in a Seattle band circa 1990, and while his voice never quite rises out of a monotone, it's still oddly expressive. Fast, furious, and brimming with energy, Taylor is the perfect cure for the wintertime blues. -- Genevieve Williams
