Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues. The 58 song 3-CD set lays out label founder and president Bruce Iglauer’s vision. The collection highlights the label’s extraordinary past, headline-generating present, and a future dedicated to nurturing new generations of blues artists and fans. Fifty years ago, Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favourite Chicago blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers, and founded Alligator Records to release it. Today, Alligator boasts a catalog of over 350 titles, many of which are renowned, award-winning, time-tested classics of the genre. Alligator Records’ artists and recordings have received 48 Grammy Award nominations and three Grammy Awards, over 150 Blues Music Awards and over 70 Living Blues Awards.
Track Listing:
Code Blue
JW Jones Band · My Kind of Evil
Party Town
Marcia Ball · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
What You See Is What You Get
Li'l Ed & The Blues Imperials · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
In a Roomful of Blues
Roomful of Blues · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Blue & Lonesome
Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Outside of This Town
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Clotilda's On Fire
Shemekia Copeland · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
The Longer That I Live
Curtis Salgado · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Living in a Burning House
Selwyn Birchwood · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Ain't No Fun (When The Rabbit's Got The Gun)
The Cash Box KIngs · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Make It Back To Memphis
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
A Woman
JJ Grey & Mofro · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
I'm Running
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
You Didn't Think About That
Coco Montoya · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Ice Cream In Hell
Tinsley Ellis · 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Heartache & Trouble
Deb Rhymer Blues Band · Don't Wait Up
Don't Bother Me
David Gogo · 17 Vultures
Rock Steady
Jane Mortifee · Get Ready
Every Night & Every Day
Steve Kozak · It's Time
Mean Spirit Blues
The Burying Ground · The Burying Ground
Uptown Lockdown
Steve Marriner · Hope Dies Last