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 #119
JANUARY 1995

Dear Friends, I always seem to write these on the fly...in this case, having just flown back from Brazil after a four-show Koko Taylor tour and before flying...

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...

IN LIVING BLUES #95
JANUARY 1991

Dear Friends, With the new albums by The Mellow Fellows and Lucky Peterson, we’ve wrapped up our 1990 releases. But we have a couple of treats for January –t...

IN LIVING BLUES #93
SEPTEMBER 1990

Dear Friends, Seems like I’m virtually living in the studio, finishing our next releases before flying to California to mix the new live album by Little Char...

IN LIVING BLUES #92
JULY 1990

Deal' Friends, Just returned from everywhere (Brazil for the 2nd annual Brazil Blues Fest, California where I recorded a live album with Little Charlie and t...

IN LIVING BLUES #80
MAY 1988

Dear Friends , Seems harder and harder to find time to write these. In a few minutes I’m off to the studio to remaster Maurice John Vaughn’s "Generic Blues''...

IN LIVING BLUES #79
MARCH 1988

Dear Friends, Irony strikes. Last time, I was telling you about the awful train wreck that the Son Seals band and I were in while touring Norway in 1978. Now...