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Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: DISC 1: Give Me Back My Wig (Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers); I'm A
Woman
(Koko Taylor); Have Mercy (Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell); Somebody Loan Me
A
Dime (Fenton Robinson); It’s My Fault, Darling (Professor Longhair); Telephone
Angel (Son
Seals); Lights Out (Johnny Winter); Blue Monday Hangover (Albert Collins); Little
Car
Blues (James Cotton); The Dream (Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland);
Pawnshop Bound (William Clarke); Ridin' the Blinds (Live) (Lonnie Mack); Cold
Lonely
Nights (Live) (Lonnie Brooks); Soul Fixin’ Man (Live) (Luther Allison); Got My Mojo
Working
(Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown); Sloppy Drunk (Saffire–The Uppity Blues Women);
That
Did It (Roy Buchanan); Keep On Lovin' Me, Baby (The Paladins).
DISC 2: Love Disease (Michael Burks); I'm A Blues Man (Kenny Neal); Run Myself Out of Town (The Holmes Brothers); Jump Star (Little Charlie & The Nightcats); I'm Still Leaving You (Katie Webster); Don't Lose My Number (Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King); Corner Of The Blanket (The Kinsey Report); I Got A Rich Man's Woman (Carey Bell); Au Contraire, Mon Frere (C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band); There's A Devil On The Loose (Mavis Staples); Presumed Innocent (Michael Hill's Blues Mob); Not What You Said Last Night (Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin); Man Of Considerable Taste (Billy Boy Arnold): Ain't Seen My Baby (Cephas & Wiggins); Marfa Lights (Long John Hunter); Phone Line (Dave Hole): Josephine (Eric Lindell); I Won't Do That (Joe Louis Walker); That's What Love Will Make You Do (Janiva Magness); Going Back to Alabama (The Siegel-Schwall Band); Why Don’t You Live So God Can Use You? (Corey Harris & Henry Butler).
DISC 3: Party Town (Marcia Ball); What You See Is What You Get (Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials); In A Roomful Of Blues (Roomful of Blues); Blue and Lonesome (Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues); Outside of This Town (Christone "Kingfish" Ingram); Clotilda's On Fire (Shemekia Copeland); The Longer That I Live (Curtis Salgado); Living In a Burning House (Selwyn Birchwood); Midnight Hour Blues (Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite); Ain't No Fun (When The Rabbit Got The Gun) (The Cash Box Kings); Make It Back To Memphis (Live) (Tommy Castro & The Painkillers); A Woman (Live) (JJ Grey & Mofro); I'm Running (Rick Estrin & The Nightcats); You Didn't Think About That (Coco Montoya); Ice Cream In Hell (Tinsley Ellis); You Won't Have A Problem When I'm Gone (Chris Cain); Too Late (Guitar Shorty); The High Cost of Low Living (The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling); The Chicago Way (Toronzo Cannon).
Various artists: Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music

by Jim Trageser
Maybe this half-century commemoration of the jny: Chicago-based, blues-focused label should have been titled, The Last of the Independents." Almost alone of the mid-major labels that formerly thrived in the 1980s and '90s by specializing in non-mainstream styles of music, Alligator has managed to navigate stunning changes in the music business--from the vinyl of ...
Shemekia Copeland: Uncivil War

by Paul Rauch
Blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland has firmly established herself as one of the most important modern blues artists. Though born in Harlem and raised in New Jersey, her sound has always clearly shouted Texas, reflecting her family ties to the music through her father, Texas bluesman Johnny Copeland. Her albums have called attention to her powerful instrument ...
Uncivil War

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Clotilda's On Fire; Walk Until I Ride; Uncivil War; Money Makes You Ugly; Dirty Saint; Under My Thumb; Apple
Pie and a .45;
Give God the Blues; She Don't Wear Pink; No Heart At All; In the Dark, Love Song.
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

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 ...