“Essential blues”

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

In Living Blues #249
June 2017

Dear Friends, It’s been a difficult couple of months since I last wrote to you. Three great musicians and longtime friends of mine passed away. James “Mr. Su...

In Living Blues #240
December 2015

Dear Friends, I recently returned from Katowice, Poland, where I attended the 35th Rawa Blues Festival. It’s amazing that not only is Poland the home to the ...

In Living Blues #227
September 2013

Dear Friends, It’s been an exciting and busy summer here at Alligator, with The Holmes Brothers, Tommy Castro and Joe Louis Walker all in the studio working ...

In Living Blues #205
January 2010

Dear Friends, I’m writing from Dallas, where I’m helping Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King cut their second Alligator album. Being part of the creative proc...

IN LIVING BLUES #94
NOVEMBER 1990

Dear Friends, Well, HARP ATTACK! is finally on the market and beginning to be discovered by blues harp fans everywhere. If you haven't yet made up your Chris...

IN LIVING BLUES #258
DECEMBER 2018

Dear Friends, We’re very excited by the terrific public reaction to our latest releases –Tough As Love by spitfire blues and R&...

Chicago Tribune: “Bruce Iglauer finally tells the story” behind Alligator Records

Alligator Records founder Bruce Iglauer poses in his office recently in the Rogers Park neighborhood. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune) "The book docu...

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...