Alligator Records is a Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971. 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 of Delmark Records, 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. Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... “Blues music” redirects here. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Bruce Iglauer (b. ... See also: 1970 in music, other events of 1971, 1972 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // February 8 - Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... Theodore Roosevelt Hound Dog Taylor (April 12, 1915 - December 17, 1975) was an American blues guitarist and singer. ... Robert Gregg Koester (born October 30, 1932) is the founder and owner of Delmark Records, the oldest independent record label in the United States and one of jazzs best-known imprints, and the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, the worlds largest blues/jazz record store. ... Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Delmark founder Bob Koester got hooked on jazz after hearing artists like Lionel Hampton. ...

Today, Alligator Records is a top contemporary blues record label.

Notable artists

• MOFRO
• Luther Allison
• Marcia Ball
• Elvin Bishop
• Lonnie Brooks
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
• Roy Buchanan
• Michael Burks, a regular performer at the Sand Dollar Blues Room in Las Vegas
• Clifton Chenier
• Albert Collins
• Shemekia Copeland
• Robert Cray
• Buddy Guy
• Dave Hole
• Lazy Lester
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Professor Longhair
• Otis Rush
• Son Seals
• Hound Dog Taylor
• Koko Taylor
• Sonny Terry
• Rufus Thomas
• Johnny Winter

MOFRO is a soul and southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida composed of JJ Grey, Daryl Hance, George Sluppick (drums) and Adam Scone (keyboard). ... Luther Allison (August 17, 1939–August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist. ... Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949) is an American blues singer and pianist born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. ... Elvin Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitar player. ... Lonnie Brooks (December 18, 1933-) is an American blues singer and guitarist. ... American blues and Tex-Mex musician Clarence Gatemouth Brown (April 18, 1924–September 10, 2005) was a highly acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played a impressive array of instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. ... Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988) was an American guitar virtuoso and blues musician, and was considered a soulful master of the electric guitar. ... Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 - December 12, 1987) was the pre-eminent performer of zydeco music, a blend of Cajun and Creole music with R&B, jazz and blues influences. ... Albert Collins album cover Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was a blues guitarist, singer and musician. ... Shemekia Copeland (1979 – ) is a notable American blues singer born in Harlem, New York. ... Robert Cray (foreground) Robert Cray (born 1 August 1953, in Columbus, Georgia) is a blues musician, guitarist and singer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dave Hole (born March 30, 1948 in Heswall, Cheshire, England) is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his exciting style of playing rock & roll and blues music. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Cover of Charlie Musselwhites Stand Back album Charlie Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is an American blues harp (harmonica) player and band leader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. ... Professor Longhair (born Henry Roeland Byrd, also known as Roy Bald Head Byrd and as Fess) (December 19, 1918 - January 30, 1980) was a legendary New Orleans blues musician. ... Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934 in Philadelphia, Mississippi) is a blues musician and guitarist. ... Frank Son Seals (August 13, 1942 -December 20, 2004) was an American blues guitarist and singer. ... Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers Natural Boogie Alligator Theodore Roosevelt Hound Dog Taylor (April 12, 1915 - December 17, 1975) was an American blues guitarist and singer. ... Koko Taylor (Undated photograph) Koko Taylor sometimes called KoKo Taylor (born September 28, 1935 as Cora Walton, on a farm just outside Memphis, Tennessee) is an American blues musician, popularly known as the Queen of the Blues. ... Sonny Terry performing live at Nambassa festival 1981. ... Rufus 1990 album for Alligator Records, That Woman Is Poison! Rufus Thomas (March 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was a rhythm and blues and soul singer from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s. ... John Dawson Johnny Winter III (born on 23 February 1944 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. ...

See also

• List of record labels
• Chicago record labels

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External link

• Official site
• The Alligator story - History of the label at the official site