Results for "Alligator Records"

100 Years Of Blues

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Birds Of A Feather; West Helena Blues; What The Hell?; Good Times; Old School; If I Should Have Bad Luck; Midnight Hour Blues; Blues, Why Do You Worry Me?; South Side Slide; Blues For Yesterday; Help Me; 100 Years Of Blues.

Late Summer 2019

By DOUG COLLETTE

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. The Mike Duke Project ...took a while Little Village Foundation 2019 ...took a while ...

Fall 2018

By DOUG COLLETTE

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Introductory text goes here. Shemekia Copeland America's Child Alligator Records 2018 Notwithstanding its topical undercurrent, ...

The Big Sound of Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials

By LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Giving Up On Your Love; Raining in Paris; Poor Man's Song; Shy Voice; Black Diamond Love; Whiskey Flavored Tears; I'll Cry Tomorrow; Is It You?; I'm Done; Deep In My Soul; I Want it All; I Like My Hot Sauce Cold; Troubled World; Green Light Groove.

God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson

By BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Soul of a Man; It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine; Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Jesus is Coming Soon; Motherless Children Have a Hard Time; Trouble Will Soon Be Over; Bye and Bye I’m Going to See the King; God Don't Never Change; John The Revelator; Let Your Light Shine on Me; Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground.

Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials: The Big Sound of Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials

By JIM TRAGESER

For more than 25 years, Lil' Ed Williams and his three-piece Blues Imperials have been as rock-steady in their roster makeup as they have musically. Since the late 1980s, singer-guitarist Williams has been backed by Michael Garrett (second guitar), James “Pookie" Young (bass) and Kelly Littleton (drums). That kind of longevity in a band ...

Blind Willie Johnson: God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson

By JAMES NADAL

As time moves on and the genuine bluesmen slip into historical archives, it is a cause for celebration when someone makes the effort to reconstruct the music of one of the true innovators in the blues genre. Produced by Jeffrey Gaskill, God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson, is a contemporary tribute to ...

Method to My Madness

By TOMMY CASTRO

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Common Ground; Shine a Light; Method to My Madness; Died and Gone to Heaven; Got a Lot; No Such Luck; Two Hearts; I'm Qualified; Ride; Lose Lose; All About the Cash; Bad Luck.

Outskirts Of Love

By SHEMEKIA COPELAND

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Outskirts Of Love; Crossbone Beach; Devil’s Hand; the Battle Is Over (But The War Goes On); Cardboard Box; Drivin’ Out Of Nashville; I Feel A Sin Coming On; Isn’t That So; Jesus Just Left Chicago; Long As I Can See The Light; Wrapped Up In Love Again; Lord Help the Poor And Needy.

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers: Method to My Madness

By JIM TRAGESER

Few have epitomized the workingman nature of the blues as much as Tommy Castro. A popular staple of blues festivals and cruises, and steadily in demand since he issued his debut in 1994, Castro nevertheless has always somewhat resided in the second tier of blues artists: Popular, well-liked, kept working steadily, but not considered one of ...