It’s time for The Blues! In Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story)* *(University of Chicago Press, 2018), Alligator Records president and founder Bruce Iglauer and his co-author, Patrick Roberts of Northern Illinois University, tell the tale of fifty years of Chicago Blues. From Delta-born guitar expressionists like Hound Dog Taylor to modern vocalists like Shemekia Copeland, from the South Side to the Norway fjords, Alligator Records has seen it all.
David Hamilton Golland)* is professor of history and immediate past president of the faculty senate at Governors State University in Chicago's southland. @DHGolland.*
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