HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOUND DOG TAYLOR!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOUND DOG TAYLOR! This week we celebrate the birthday of the man who started it all, the king of Genuine Houserockin ' Music and the artist who inspired the creation of Alligator Records. Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was born on April 12, 1915 in Natchez, Mississippi. He came to Chicago in 1942, worked in a factory and began playing on the weekends at the outdoor Maxwell Street Market. With  a steel slide on the fifth of his six fingers (true), playing a super-cheap guitar through a dilapidated amp, and accompanied by only a second guitar and drums.