Lurrie & Carey Bell

Lurrie & Carey Bell / Alligator promotional photo - By Cynthia Howe...

Carey Bell, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Billy Branch

Carey Bell, James Cotton, Junior Wells & Billy Branch (HarpAttack) / Alligator promotional photo - By Paul Natkin...

Carey Bell

Carey Bell / Alligator promotional photo - By Paul Natkin...

Big Walter Horton, Eddie Taylor, Carey Bell

Big Walter Horton, Eddie Taylor and Carey Bell probably at Big Duke's Flamingo Club - By Hasse Andreasson...

Carey & Lurrie Bell

Carey & Lurrie Bell in the 1970s - By Andre Hobus...

Big Walter Horton / Promotional piece

Promotional piece for Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell, 1972. © Alligator Records ...

“Essential blues”

Alligator Records advertisement, in Living Blues magazine - January, 1992 Presenting the Living Chicago Blues series: CD 1: The Jimmy Johnson Blue...

Muddy Waters at the White Rose in Phoenix, Illinois

I only once saw Muddy in a black-audience club. On New Year’s Eve of 1970-71, I was working at the Jazz Record Mart. It was open until 9 but there were no custo...

In Living Blues #250
August 2017

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...

In Living Blues #246
December 2016

Dear Friends, I had a great time at the Rawa Blues Festival in Poland last month. Both Toronzo Cannon and Shemekia Copeland tore up the festival. Shemekia ha...