What do Luther Allison, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, Lonnie Mack, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, Little Charlie & the Nightca...
Dear friends,
The 35th Annual Chicago Blues Festival on June 8-10 was another don’t-miss event. Lots of great sets, including terrific performances by Alliga...
Dear friends,
We’re immensely proud of Selwyn Birchwood’s new Pick Your Poison CD. It’s been hailed as one the best blues albums of the year, and a giant ste...
Dear Friends,
I just had a great time at the first Bluestock Festival in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, in spite of the last day being rained ou...
Dear Friends,
Welcome to a new year, and one that I hope will be better for the blues than 2006. In the last few months, we’ve lost so many of our most belov...
Dear Friends,
Today I spent remastering some of the best tracks from the seven Alligator albums by Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women. A Saffire collection, s...
Dear Friends,
This summer and fall I’ve been able to attend a few more festivals than usual, and see some thrilling performances. I’m writing this from Tuni...
Dear Friends,
I always seem to write these on the fly...in this case, having just flown back from Brazil after a four-show Koko Taylor tour and before flying...
Dear Friends,
I was looking over my last few "letters” and I suddenly realized that there’s a brand new Alligator release that I haven’t told you anything ab...