My pick for this week's #MusicWomenWednesday is a video from the 1967 American Folk and Blues Festival. This is Koko Taylor doing a live version of her great hit from the previous year, backed by a stellar group of musicians including Little Walter on harmonica, Hound Dog Taylor on guitar, Dillard Crume on bass and Odie Payne on drums.

Koko Taylor: Wang Dang Doodle (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUHkY0K8HE

This line-up even visited Finland, playing a show at Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki on October 12, 1967.

#music #kokotaylor #littlewalter #hounddogtaylor #dillardcrume #odiepayne #bliuesmusic #chicagoblues

I’ve just heard this #HoundDogTaylor song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIVm37AHu9g

Dear GODS, he knew to do a #rhythm #riff … !!!

Hound Dog Taylor and the House Rockers, Natural Boogie, 1974 on Alligator Records

Second record from Hound Dog Taylor and his band, originally issued as AL 4704. The band her includes Ted Harvey on drums and Brewer Phillips on 2nd guitar, with Hound Dog Taylor on lead guitar and vocals. (Their debut LP had been the first release on newly-formed Alligator in 1971).

Great electrified Chicago blues. Unfortunately Taylor died in 1975 so the band’s recorded output is limited, but this one plus the debut are well worth picking up if you get a chance.

My copy is the 2023 Vinyl Me Please Reissue, C076 in the Vinyl Me Please Classics Series, with listening notes by Andrew Winistorfer and lacquers cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

#1970s #1974 #AlligatorRecords #AndrewWinistorfer #Blues #Chicago #HoundDogTaylor #RyanSmith #Sterling #vinyl #vinylMePlease #VinylMePleaseClassics #vinylcollection

Happy Monday 😁😁😀

Give me back my wig. Luther Allison's homage to the great Hound Dog Taylor

#blues #LutherAllison #HoundDogTaylor #rock #classics #music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2KtFVZzXRM&t=20