digitalcitrus.com » texas blues http://www.digitalcitrus.com This is the soundtrack to my life Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:54:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog http://www.digitalcitrus.com/2007/big-mama-thornton-hound-dog/ http://www.digitalcitrus.com/2007/big-mama-thornton-hound-dog/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:00:21 +0000 Jason http://www.digitalcitrus.com/2007/big-mama-thornton-hound-dog/ Big Mama Thornton
“Hound Dog”

Where do you think Elvis got it from? That’s right — Big Mama Thornton. She wrote the original “Hound Dog”.

Like a lot of musicians in her time, she started in the (baptist) church. Her father was the minister. She started singing young and ran away at the age of 14 to start her career in secular (gasp!) music.

She could belt it.

"Hound Dog" (download)
From the EP Hound Dog

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