Hound Dog Taylor / Track sheet

Hound Dog Taylor's first album track sheet. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers was released in 1971 © Alligator Records ...

“Illuminating views and straightforward recounting”

What do Luther Allison, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, Lonnie Mack, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, Little Charlie & the Nightca...

Hound Dog Taylor / Record agreement

First record agreement, between Hound Dog Taylor and Alligator Records, 1971. Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers was released later that same year. © A...

Houston Press: “Iglauer is particularly evocative”

The act that started it all: Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, 1974. Left to right: Hound Dog Taylor, Ted Harvey, and Brewer Phillips - Photo by Bob...

WBEZ: “One of the premier outlets for the ‘genuine houserockin’ music'”

Bruce Iglauer - Photo by Jason Marck / WBEZ When Bruce Iglauer’s sister invited him to a music festival at the University of Chicago in the mid-1960s, h...

Citybeat: “An inspiring tale”

David Lee Watson, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, and Bruce Iglauer at Sea Saint Studios - Photo by Michael P. Smith. The success of Alligator is an insp...

Hound Dog Taylor / Payment

Hound Dog Taylor receipt for one session payment. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers was released in 1971 © Alligator Records...

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...

Ted Harvey, Brewer Phillips

Ted Harvey and Brewer Phillips, two thirds of the original HouseRockers, at BLUES on Halsted, in 1990 - By Andre Hobus...

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...