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When I created Alligator Records, the very first promo piece to promote that very first Hound Dog Taylor album was headed "Genuine Houserockin' Music." That became our slogan, and we wear it proudly today. "Genuine" because the music we record is deeply rooted in the blues tradition (even when it pushes the standard definition of blues) and is created by musicians who have honed their songs not on synthesizers in their bedrooms, but in front of real audiences, responding to the emotional needs of their listeners. "House" instead of "theatre" or "arena" or "stadium," because our music is ultimately intimate, even when it's big and loud. It's not meant to be presented. It's meant to be shared between the musicians and the audience, like everyone at Florence's shared the music with Hound Dog Taylor. And "Rockin'" because it's designed to move you. Most of Alligator's records will move your feet or your body, but we've tried to make records that will move that other part of your soul. Sometimes that can mean music that cleanses your inner pain by pulling it out of you, the "hurts so good" that is so special to the blues. And sometimes it just means the pure release and fun of musicians pouring their energy into a great groove.
-Bruce Iglauer
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 David Honeyboy Edwards The World Don't Owe Me Nothing BOOK
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression....
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Tommy Castro & The Painkillers' STOMPIN' GROUND Set For Sept 29 Release
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Alligator Artists Nominated For Top Blues Blast Music Awards
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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats' GROOVIN’ IN GREASELAND Set For August 18 Release
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Selwyn Birchwood Releases First Video From New CD, PICK YOUR POISON
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Five Alligator Artists Nominated For 11 Living Blues Awards
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Coco Montoya |
| Bangor, ME |
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Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues |
| Chicago, IL |
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Eddy Clearwater |
| Shirley, MA |
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Elvin Bishop |
| Niigata, JAPAN |
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Jarekus Singleton |
| Lorton, VA |
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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats |
| San Francisco, CA |
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Roomful of Blues |
| Great Barrington, MA |
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Selwyn Birchwood |
| St. Petersburg, FL |
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The Cash Box Kings |
| Chicago, IL |
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The Kentucky Headhunters |
| Camdenton, MO |
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