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In the late sixties, Bruce Iglauer worked for Bob Koester (founder of Delmark Records) at a record store in the Loop during the day and prowled the city's South Side and West Side blues clubs by night. Iglauer was so amazed by the playing of a raw and fiery guitarist who wielded a wicked slide on the sixth finger of his left hand that he formed Alligator Records in 1971 for the specific purpose of recording him.
Fifty-five-year-old Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was a sensation on the club scene, but he had only three singles on his recording resume when the light went on in Iglauer's head. Taylor's unschooled playing was wild, raucous, and sometimes out of tune, but it never failed to get audiences up hooting and dancing. Sadly, Taylor's recording career lasted only four years. He died of cancer in 1975, shortly before the release of his third album, Beware of the Dog.
~ Cary Wolfson
