IN LIVING BLUES #173
July 2004

Dear Friends, By the time you read this, our hot new Guitar Shorty CD, Watch Your Back and our disc of never-before-released Hound Dog Taylor gems, Release ...

IN LIVING BLUES #172
May 2004

Dear Friends, I just returned from the Blues Foundation’s big Blues First Weekend/International Blues Challenge in Memphis. The IBC is the amateur (and sem...

IN LIVING BLUES #171
January 2004

Dear Friends, Like so many other blues fans, as we come to the end of The Year Of The Blues, I’m trying to figure out the future impact of this event in blu...

IN LIVING BLUES #170
November 2003

Dear Friends, I’m writing this a few days before the much-heralded series of Martin Scorcese-produced films simply entitled The Blues airs on public televis...

IN LIVING BLUES #156
March 2001

Dear Friends, As we move into Alligator’s 30th year of recording the blues, I have very little time to reflect on the past. As has been true since 1971, I’...

IN LIVING BLUES #118
NOVEMBER 1994

Dear Friends, I just got back from Argentina, where I was on a whirlwind three-day tour with Koko Taylor and Kenny Neal. They performed in a giant basketball...

IN LIVING BLUES #117
SEPTEMBER 1994

Dear Friends, Just got done with the final mixes for Kenny Neal's latest album, ’’Hoodoo Moon." The young man from Baton Rouge has done it again –lots of tas...

IN LIVING BLUES #116
JULY 1994

Dear Friends, I’m squeezing this "ad" out at the last minute because I'm back to living in recording studios again. As a result, for the remainder of 1994 yo...

IN LIVING BLUES #106
NOVEMBER 1992

Dear Friends, I'm still living in the studio, it seems. Only last month I recorded and mixed the last tunes for THE ALLIGATOR RECORDS CHRISTMAS COLLECTION, w...

IN LIVING BLUES #105
SEPTEMBER 1992

Dear Friends, Seems like these days I can hardly get out of the studio long enough to write these "letters." Over the weekend I was finishing what I hope are...