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Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues with release of '50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music'. The 58 song 3-CD set (over 230 minutes) 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, 23-year-old blues fan 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.