In Living Blues #243
June 2016

Dear Friends, I just spent three very happy days at Joyride Studios here in Chicago with my friends Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials. In about 18 hours, the...

In Living Blues #242
April 2016

Dear Friends, Hometown blues hero Toronzo Cannon launched his Alligator debut, The Chicago Way, with three scintillating performances in the Chicago area in ...

In Living Blues #241
February 2016

Dear Friends, 2016 will be a banner year for Alligator. It’s the 45th anniversary of the label and we’ll be bringing you an outstanding series of new release...

In Living Blues #238
August 2015

Dear Friends, The Chicago Blues Festival, June 12-14, was one of the best in recent memory. Three days of blues, ten hours a day, with five stages –what more...

In Living Blues #237
May 2015

Dear Friends, By now, thousands of words have been written celebrating the life of B.B. King and his immeasurable contribution to the world’s music. I have j...

In Living Blues #236
March 2015

Dear Friends, As you’ve probably heard, we recently welcomed the wonderful Shemekia Copeland back to the Alligator artist roster. We first signed Shemekia wh...

In Living Blues #202
July 2009

Dear Friends, As I’m sure you all know, my dear friend, Alligator’s senior artist and blues icon Koko Taylor died on June 3 as a result of internal bleeding....

In Living Blues #196
May 2008

Dear Friends, A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending the Springing The Blues Festival in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Sam Veal founded this...

In Living Blues #194
January 2008

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! I’m sure hoping 2008 will be a good year for the blues; we lost way too many of our elder statesman in 2007. Our first piece of...

In Living Blues #188
January 2007

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...