(Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor, Arc Music Corp., BMI)
Recorded circa September, 1967
Hound Dog Taylor (vocal-guitar)
Walter Horton (harmonica)
Lafayette Leake (piano)
Lee Jackson (bass)
Robert Whitehead (drums)
Originally on Chess LP2-92519, "Chess Blues Rarities"
Slide guitarist Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor (1915-1975) laid down some of his raw, exceptionally exciting blues at one singular session for Chess in 1967. "Sitting Here Alone" finds Hound Dog's trademark grunge-guitar licks alternating with classic Big Walter and Lafayette Leake lines. The whole track has a time-warp feeling of being out of place, sounding far more like a Chess track from the memorable Fifties than a late Sixties effort. Hound Dog's "career," such as it was, got it's only real impetus when he was re-discovered and recorded by Bruce Iglauer's Chicago-based Alligator Records label in the early Seventies. This heightened visibility brought him club and concert dates and a few tours near the end of his life; sadly, he didn't live long enough to really benefit from it.