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Alligator Records is a Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
-based independent
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
 blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 founded by Bruce Iglauer
Bruce Iglauer

Bruce Iglauer is the founder and head of the independent record label blues record label Alligator Records in Chicago.Iglauer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cincinnati, Ohio....
 in 1971
1971 in music

Events*February 5 - Eric Burdon & War disband. They never performed together again until April 21, 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music....
. Iglauer started the label with his own small savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester
Bob Koester

Robert Gregg Koester is the founder and owner of Delmark Records, one of the oldest independent record label in the United States and one of jazz's best-known imprints, and the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, the world's largest blues/jazz record store....
 of Delmark Records
Delmark Records

Delmark Records is one of the oldest independent record label in the United States. It records jazz and blues and is one of jazz's best-known imprints....
, declined to record. Nine months after the release of the first album, he then stopped working at Delmark Records to concentrate fully on the band and his label.

Since its founding, Alligator Records has released over 250 blues and blues/rock albums, as well as a now-defuct reggae series.






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Alligator Records is a Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
-based independent
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
 blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 founded by Bruce Iglauer
Bruce Iglauer

Bruce Iglauer is the founder and head of the independent record label blues record label Alligator Records in Chicago.Iglauer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cincinnati, Ohio....
 in 1971
1971 in music

Events*February 5 - Eric Burdon & War disband. They never performed together again until April 21, 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music....
. Iglauer started the label with his own small savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester
Bob Koester

Robert Gregg Koester is the founder and owner of Delmark Records, one of the oldest independent record label in the United States and one of jazz's best-known imprints, and the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, the world's largest blues/jazz record store....
 of Delmark Records
Delmark Records

Delmark Records is one of the oldest independent record label in the United States. It records jazz and blues and is one of jazz's best-known imprints....
, declined to record. Nine months after the release of the first album, he then stopped working at Delmark Records to concentrate fully on the band and his label.

Since its founding, Alligator Records has released over 250 blues and blues/rock albums, as well as a now-defuct reggae series. Present Alligator artists include Marcia Ball, Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King, Roomful of Blues, Eric Lindell, JJ Grey & Mofro, Lee Rocker, Cephas & Wiggins, and Michael Burks.

Artists

  • MOFRO
    MOFRO

    MOFRO is a Soul/Funk/R&B/Blues/southern Rock music band from Jacksonville, Florida composed of JJ Grey , Daryl Hance , Adam Scone , and Anthony Cole ....
  • Luther Allison
    Luther Allison

    File:LutherAllison1996.jpgLuther Allison was an United States blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago, Illinois in 1951....
  • Marcia Ball
    Marcia Ball

    Marcia Ball is an United States blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, Louisiana....
  • Elvin Bishop
    Elvin Bishop

    Elvin Bishop is an United States blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist....
  • Lonnie Brooks
    Lonnie Brooks

    Lonnie Brooks is an United States blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana, Louisiana....
  • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    Clarence Gatemouth Brown

    Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was a Louisiana and Texas United States blues musician.He was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums....
  • Roy Buchanan
    Roy Buchanan

    Roy Buchanan was an United States guitarist and blues musician. He is noted for his use of note bending, volume swells, staccato runs, and pinch harmonics....
  • Michael Burks
  • Cephas & Wiggins
    Cephas & Wiggins

    Cephas & Wiggins was an American acoustic blues music duo composed of guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins . They were known for traditional blues style known as the Piedmont blues....
  • Little Charlie & the Nightcats
    Little Charlie & the Nightcats

    Little Charlie & the Nightcats is a four-piece combo, consisting currently of guitarist Little Charlie Baty, harmonicist/lead vocalist Rick Estrin, bassist Lorenzo Farrell, and drummer J....
  • Clifton Chenier
    Clifton Chenier

    Clifton Chenier a Creole French-speaking native of Opelousas, Louisiana, Louisiana, was an eminent performer and recording artist of Zydeco, which arose from Cajun music and Louisiana Creole music, with rhythm and blues, jazz, and blues influences....
  • Albert Collins
    Albert Collins

    Albert Collins was a blues guitarist, singer and musician. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor Blade"....
  • Shemekia Copeland
    Shemekia Copeland

    File:ShemekiaCopeland1996.jpgShemekia Copeland Born in Harlem on April 10, 1979, she is the daughter of blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland....
  • Robert Cray
    Robert Cray

    Robert Cray is an United States blues musician, guitarist, and singer....
  • Buddy Guy
    Buddy Guy

    George "Buddy" Guy is a five-time Grammy Award-winning United States blues and rock music guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other guitarists, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues....
  • Dave Hole
    Dave Hole

    David Robert Hole is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his exciting style of playing rock & roll and blues music....
  • Smokin' Joe Kubek
    Smokin' Joe Kubek

    Smokin' Joe Kubek is an United states blues guitarist.Although he was born in Pennsylvania, Kubek grew up in Texas and is associated with the Texas blues style....
  • Lazy Lester
    Lazy Lester

    Lazy Lester is a swamp blues harmonica player, whose career spans the 1950s to the 2000s.Best known for regional hit record sound recording and reproduction with Ernie Young's Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee based Excello Records record label, Lester also contributed as a sideman to songs recorded by Excello label-mates including Slim Harp...
  • Lonnie Mack
    Lonnie Mack

    Lonnie Mack is a Rock music and blues guitarist/vocalist. In the early 1960s, he recorded several full-length rock guitar instrumentals strongly grounded in the blues, the best-known of which are "Memphis", "Wham!", "Chicken Pickin'" and "Suzie-Q"....
  • Charlie Musselwhite
    Charlie Musselwhite

    Charlie Musselwhite is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield....
  • Professor Longhair
    Professor Longhair

    Professor Longhair was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. Byrd is noteworthy for having been active in two distinct periods, both in the heyday of early rhythm and blues, and in the resurgence of interest in traditional jazz after the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival....
  • Fenton Robinson
    Fenton Robinson

    Fenton Robinson was a blues singer and exponent of the Chicago Blues guitar.His signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" was cover version by Boz Scaggs, but attributed to Scaggs himself, resulting in legal battles....
  • Otis Rush
    Otis Rush

    Otis Rush is a blues music musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes....
  • Son Seals
    Son Seals

    Frank "Son" Seals was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
  • The Siegel-Schwall Band
  • Hound Dog Taylor
    Hound Dog Taylor

    Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
  • Koko Taylor
    Koko Taylor

    Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor is an United States blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She is known primarily for her rough and powerful human voice and traditional blues stylings....
  • Sonny Terry
    Sonny Terry

    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry was a Blindness blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included human voice whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts....
  • Rufus Thomas
    Rufus Thomas

    Rufus Thomas, Jr. was a rhythm and blues, funk and soul music singer and comedian fromMemphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the...
  • Maurice John Vaughan
    Maurice John Vaughan

    Maurice John Vaughan is an United States blues musician from Chicago, Illinois. He is a guitarist, saxophonist, keyboard player andvocalist.Vaughan began playing professionally as a saxophonist in Chicago Rhythm and blues groups....
  • Johnny Winter
    Johnny Winter

    John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an United States blues guitarist, Vocalist and Record producer.Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits....
  • Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...
  • Chicago record labels
    Chicago record labels

    Basic general information about the labels Name !! Founder !! Founded !! Link !! Address !! Genres !! Artists|-!style="background: #ececec;"|Aritao Records...


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