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Hound Dog Taylor: a goodtime "rocker"

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 10 January 1976

ALTHOUGH he was not a major figure of postwar blues, Theodore Roosevelt Taylor — known professionally as Hound Dog Taylor — was a good representative of the tough, rowdy, stomping Chicago school of contemporary "electric" blues playing.

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