ALLIGATOR RECORDS

Here are 17 Alligator showcases of Chicago's best: "Your Turn to Cry," "Ain't That Just Like a Woman," "Serves Me Right to Suffer" Jimmy Johnson, "It's Alright," "Sitting on Top of the World," "Out...

Rolling Stone called these Alligator collections "definitive," and they are. Here are "Don't Answer the Door," "Two Headed Man," "Cold, Lonely Nights" Lonnie Brooks, "Worry, Worry," "Sunnyland Blues"...

Volume three of this internationally acclaimed Alligator series includes "Hard Times," "Going to New York," "She's Fine" A.C. Reed, "Poison Ivy," "Road Block" Scott & the Rib Tips, "I Dare You,"...

Alligator Records rightfully won raves for this series, arguably the greatest modern blues collections out there. Volume four features Detroit Junior ("Some Nerve," "I Got Money"), Luther "Guitar...

Legendary Alligator release from 1985 was a stunning comeback for blues rock guitar pioneer Mack, made all the more special for the participation of his #1 disciple, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Blistering...

Stevie Ray Vaughan trades blistering riffs with Lonnie on "Double Whammy" and four other cuts on this 1985 LP-and that moment was a long time coming. The first record SRV ever bought was a Lonnie...

On this live 1990 album recorded on the outskirts of Chicago at Fitzgerald's, Lonnie blazes through mostly his Alligator-era tunes, leading the charge with his almighty Flying V guitar. His tone...

This Chicago-blues giant (in every sense of the word) cut this 1982 LP in France. This was the band who worked as hard as anybody-breaking a sweat on stage and touring nonstop-playing the blues with...

Blues and R&B vocal dynamo Janiva Magness is on top of the blues world, winning the Blues Music Awards for B.B. King Entertainer of the Year in 2009 and Female Artist of the Year in 2006 and 2007. On...

A blues star quickly crossing over to a larger audience. Multiple Blues Music Award-winner delivers her finest album with the soulful intensity of STRONGER FOR IT, her first release to feature her...

WHAT LOVE WILL DO, co-produced by Magness along with Dave Darling (Brian Setzer, Tom Waits), features 13 powerful songs each imbued with Magness' expressive emotional depth. Magness reaches heights...

Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin really comes into his own with My Blues and My Guitar. He still pays homage to his mentor, Muddy Waters, not only through covers but simply through his driving musical...