Alligator Records
50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Music
Chicago, IL : Alligator Records, [2021]
Format: Music CD
Description: 3 audio discs (3 hr., 53 min., 17 sec.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
The king of blues labels turns 50! This anthology celebrates 50 years of classic, genre-defining recordings by a star-studded Who's Who of American blues and roots music artists past and present. Features tracks by Hound Dog Taylor, Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, Koko Taylor, Johnny Winter, Tommy Castro, Marcia Ball, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, James Cotton, and many more!
Other Authors:
Taylor, Hound Dog, 1915-1975, performer.
Taylor, Koko, performer.
Horton, Big Walter, performer.
Bell, Carey, 1936-2007, performer.
Robinson, Fenton, performer.
Professor Longhair, 1918-1980, performer.
Seals, Son, performer.
Winter, Johnny, performer.
Collins, Albert, 1932-1993, performer.
Cotton, James, 1935-2017, performer.
Cray, Robert, performer.
Copeland, Johnny, performer.
Clarke, William (Harmonica player), performer.
Mack, Lonnie, performer.
Brooks, Lonnie, performer.
Allison, Luther, 1939-1997, performer.
Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005, performer.
Buchanan, Roy, performer.
Burks, Michael, 1957-2012, performer.
Neal, Kenny, performer.
Baty, Charlie, performer.
Webster, Katie, performer.
Kubek, Smokin' Joe, performer.
King, Bnois, performer.
Staples, Mavis, performer.
Margolin, Bob, performer.
Arnold, Billy Boy, performer.
Hunter, Long John, performer.
Hole, Dave, performer.
Lindell, Eric, 1969- performer.
Walker, Joe Louis, performer.
Magness, Janiva, performer.
Harris, Corey, performer.
Butler, Henry (Pianist), performer.
Ball, Marcia, performer.
Lil' Ed, performer.
Branch, Billy, performer.
Ingram, Christone, 1999- performer.
Copeland, Shemekia, performer.
Salgado, Curtis, performer.
Birchwood, Selwyn, performer.
Bishop, Elvin, performer.
Musselwhite, Charlie, performer.
Castro, Tommy, performer.
Estrin, Rick, performer.
Montoya, Coco, performer.
Ellis, Tinsley, performer.
Cain, Chris, performer.
Guitar Shorty, 1939- performer.
Gruenling, Dennis, performer.
Cannon, Toronzo, performer.
HouseRockers, performer.
Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women (Musical group), performer.
Paladins (Musical group), performer.
Holmes Brothers, performer.
Nightcats (Musical group), performer.
Kinsey Report (Musical group), performer.
Red Hot Louisiana Band, performer.
Michael Hill's Blues Mob, performer.
Cephas & Wiggins, performer.
Siegel-Schwall Band, performer.
Blues Imperials (Musical group), performer.
Roomful of Blues (Musical group), performer.
Cash Box Kings (Musical group), performer.
Painkillers (Musical group), performer.
JJ Grey & Mofro, performer.
Nick Moss Band, performer.
Taylor, Hound Dog, 1915-1975, performer.
Taylor, Koko, performer.
Horton, Big Walter, performer.
Bell, Carey, 1936-2007, performer.
Robinson, Fenton, performer.
Professor Longhair, 1918-1980, performer.
Seals, Son, performer.
Winter, Johnny, performer.
Collins, Albert, 1932-1993, performer.
Cotton, James, 1935-2017, performer.
Cray, Robert, performer.
Copeland, Johnny, performer.
Clarke, William (Harmonica player), performer.
Mack, Lonnie, performer.
Brooks, Lonnie, performer.
Allison, Luther, 1939-1997, performer.
Brown, Clarence, 1924-2005, performer.
Buchanan, Roy, performer.
Burks, Michael, 1957-2012, performer.
Neal, Kenny, performer.
Baty, Charlie, performer.
Webster, Katie, performer.
Kubek, Smokin' Joe, performer.
King, Bnois, performer.
Staples, Mavis, performer.
Margolin, Bob, performer.
Arnold, Billy Boy, performer.
Hunter, Long John, performer.
Hole, Dave, performer.
Lindell, Eric, 1969- performer.
Walker, Joe Louis, performer.
Magness, Janiva, performer.
Harris, Corey, performer.
Butler, Henry (Pianist), performer.
Ball, Marcia, performer.
Lil' Ed, performer.
Branch, Billy, performer.
Ingram, Christone, 1999- performer.
Copeland, Shemekia, performer.
Salgado, Curtis, performer.
Birchwood, Selwyn, performer.
Bishop, Elvin, performer.
Musselwhite, Charlie, performer.
Castro, Tommy, performer.
Estrin, Rick, performer.
Montoya, Coco, performer.
Ellis, Tinsley, performer.
Cain, Chris, performer.
Guitar Shorty, 1939- performer.
Gruenling, Dennis, performer.
Cannon, Toronzo, performer.
HouseRockers, performer.
Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women (Musical group), performer.
Paladins (Musical group), performer.
Holmes Brothers, performer.
Nightcats (Musical group), performer.
Kinsey Report (Musical group), performer.
Red Hot Louisiana Band, performer.
Michael Hill's Blues Mob, performer.
Cephas & Wiggins, performer.
Siegel-Schwall Band, performer.
Blues Imperials (Musical group), performer.
Roomful of Blues (Musical group), performer.
Cash Box Kings (Musical group), performer.
Painkillers (Musical group), performer.
JJ Grey & Mofro, performer.
Nick Moss Band, performer.
Contents:
Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins (5:35) -- Little car blues / James Cotton (3:32) -- The dream / Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland (5:28) -- Pawnshop bound / William Clarke (4:22) -- Riding the blinds (live) / Lonnie Mack (4:12) -- Cold lonlely nights (live) / Lonnie Brooks (5:33) -- Soul fixin' man (live) / Luther Allison (4:03) -- Got my mojo working / Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (4:45) -- Sloppy drunk / Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women (3:06) -- That did it / Roy Buchanan (5:07) -- Keep on lovin' me, baby / The Paladins (4:02).
Disc two. Love disease / Michael Burks (3:20) -- I'm a blues man / Kenny Neal (4:11) -- Run myself out of town / The Holmes Brothers (3:26) -- Jump start / Little Charlie & The Nightcats (2:54) -- I'm still leaving you / Katie Webster (3:36) -- Don't lose my number / Smokin' Joe Kubek & Nois King (3:32) -- Corner of the blanket / The Kinsey Report (3:34) -- I got a rich man's woman / Cary Bell (4:43) -- Au contraire, mon frere / C. J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band (3:39) -- There's a devil on the loose / Mavis Staples (3:34) -- Presumed innocent / Michael Hill's Blues Mob (4:37) -- Not what you said last night / Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin (2:49) -- Man of considerable taste / Billy Boy Arnold (4:31) -- Ain't seen my baby / Cephas & Wiggins (3:23) -- Marfa light / Long john Hunter (4:53) -- Phone line / Dave Hole (3:42) -- Josephine / Eric Lindell (2:45) -- I won't do that / Joe louis Walker (5:01) -- That's what love will make you do / Janiva Magness (3:22) -- Going back to Alabama / The Siegel-Schwall Band (3:40) -- Why don't you live so God can use you? / Corey Harris & Henry Butler (2:11).
Disc three. Party town / Marcia Ball (4:16) -- What you see is what you get / Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials (4:21) -- In a roomful of blues / Roomful of Blues (3:31) -- Blue and lonesome / Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues (4:11) -- Outside of this town / Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (4:08) -- Clotilda's on fire / Shemekia Copeland (4:26) -- The longer that I live / Curtis Salgado (3:51) -- Living in a burning house / Selwyn Birchwood (4:08) -- Midnight hour blues / Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite (4:14) -- Ain't no fun (when the rabbit's got the gun) / The Cash Box Kings (4:42) -- Make it back to Memphis (live) / Tommy Castro & The Painkillers (4:55) -- A woman (live) / JJ Grey & Mofro (3:24) -- I'm running / Rick Estrin & The Nightcats (4:06) -- You didn't think about that / Coco Montoya (3:56) -- Ice cream in hell / Tinsley Ellis (4:13) -- You won't have a problem when I'm gone / Chris Cain (3:08) -- Too late / Guitar Shorty (4:14) -- The high cost of low living / The Nick Moss Band ; feat. Dennis Gruenling (4:04) -- The Chicago way / Toronzo Cannon (4:22).
Disc two. Love disease / Michael Burks (3:20) -- I'm a blues man / Kenny Neal (4:11) -- Run myself out of town / The Holmes Brothers (3:26) -- Jump start / Little Charlie & The Nightcats (2:54) -- I'm still leaving you / Katie Webster (3:36) -- Don't lose my number / Smokin' Joe Kubek & Nois King (3:32) -- Corner of the blanket / The Kinsey Report (3:34) -- I got a rich man's woman / Cary Bell (4:43) -- Au contraire, mon frere / C. J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band (3:39) -- There's a devil on the loose / Mavis Staples (3:34) -- Presumed innocent / Michael Hill's Blues Mob (4:37) -- Not what you said last night / Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin (2:49) -- Man of considerable taste / Billy Boy Arnold (4:31) -- Ain't seen my baby / Cephas & Wiggins (3:23) -- Marfa light / Long john Hunter (4:53) -- Phone line / Dave Hole (3:42) -- Josephine / Eric Lindell (2:45) -- I won't do that / Joe louis Walker (5:01) -- That's what love will make you do / Janiva Magness (3:22) -- Going back to Alabama / The Siegel-Schwall Band (3:40) -- Why don't you live so God can use you? / Corey Harris & Henry Butler (2:11).
Disc three. Party town / Marcia Ball (4:16) -- What you see is what you get / Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials (4:21) -- In a roomful of blues / Roomful of Blues (3:31) -- Blue and lonesome / Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues (4:11) -- Outside of this town / Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (4:08) -- Clotilda's on fire / Shemekia Copeland (4:26) -- The longer that I live / Curtis Salgado (3:51) -- Living in a burning house / Selwyn Birchwood (4:08) -- Midnight hour blues / Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite (4:14) -- Ain't no fun (when the rabbit's got the gun) / The Cash Box Kings (4:42) -- Make it back to Memphis (live) / Tommy Castro & The Painkillers (4:55) -- A woman (live) / JJ Grey & Mofro (3:24) -- I'm running / Rick Estrin & The Nightcats (4:06) -- You didn't think about that / Coco Montoya (3:56) -- Ice cream in hell / Tinsley Ellis (4:13) -- You won't have a problem when I'm gone / Chris Cain (3:08) -- Too late / Guitar Shorty (4:14) -- The high cost of low living / The Nick Moss Band ; feat. Dennis Gruenling (4:04) -- The Chicago way / Toronzo Cannon (4:22).
UPC: 014551500025
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Title from disc label.
Contains material previously released 1971-2021.
Program notes by Bruce Iglauer, performer biographies, and full credits (34 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Sound recording.
Compiled by Bruce Iglauer and the Alligator Records Staff.
Various performers.
Contains material previously released 1971-2021.
Program notes by Bruce Iglauer, performer biographies, and full credits (34 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Sound recording.
Compiled by Bruce Iglauer and the Alligator Records Staff.
Various performers.