Impressive previously unreleased recordings coming from Hound Dog Taylors Bruce Iglauer kept an ace up his sleeve and he has again surprised blues fans with this splendid jewel of pure ‘house-rockin’ blues’ by one of the greatest masters of this blues style Release The Hound was recorded live at different gigs and in studio sessions during the period that goes from 1971 to 1975 Taylor’s influences can be found in Elmore James and JB Hutto who were the basic names who influenced him in developing his own low dirty heartbreaking style But his style has also produced a great impact on musicians like George Thorogood, Stevie Ray Vaughan or the most actual kings of merging house-rockin’ blues with ‘garage’ blues and even ‘punk-blues’, Jon Spencer and The Blues Explosion This is a gratifying necessary record of this missing artist that must have a place in all your record collections, because it shows all basic ingredients of Hound Dog Taylor’s music