The real ‘Hound Dog.’

Remembering Big Mama Thornton, born on this day in 1926 in Ariton, Alabama. Here she is performing “Hound Dog” in 1965 with Buddy Guy, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Lee Robinson and Fred Below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsBq9MCNVg

Let’s compare.

(He was good, though, wasn’t he…1952.)

And then…there’s Forrest.