Various Artists - Alligator Records - 50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin' Music [3CD]

Cat. no: ALCD5000
Format: CD3
Barcode:014551500025
Release Date: 18th June 2021
Genre: Blues

Two-LP and 3 CD collection featuring fifty years of iconic, genre-defining recordings by a star-studded Who’s Who of American blues and roots music artists past and present, Hound Dog Taylor, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, J.J. Grey & Mofro, Koko Taylor, Johnny Winter, Tommy Castro, Marcia Ball, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, James Cotton, Toronzo Cannon and many more.

CD Features 58 songs (over 230 minutes of music). CDs packaged in an 8-panel, 4-pocket CD wallet with 40-page colour booklet.

Reviews confirmed in Mojo and Blues & Rhythm
BBC Radio 2 Cerys Matthews to support with anecdotes recorded by label owner
Bruce Iglauer and music played from release.
Full page ad in Blues Matters

CD 1: Give Me Back My Wig / I’m A Woman / Have Mercy / Somebody Loan Me A Dime / “It’s My Fault, Darling” / Telephone Angel aka You’re On My Mind / Lights Out / Blue Monday Hangover aka Blue Monday / Little Car Blues aka Too Many  Drivers / The Dream / Pawnshop Bound / Riding The Blinds (Live) / Cold Lonely Nights (Live) / Soul Fixin’ Man (Live) / Got My Mojo Working / Sloppy Drunk / That Did It / “Keep On Lovin’ Me, Baby”

CD 2: Love Disease / I’m A Blues Man / Run Myself Out Of Town / Jump Start / I’m Still Leaving You / Don’t Lose My Number / Corner Of The Blanket / I Got A Rich Man’s Woman / “Au Contraire, Mon Frere” / There’s A Devil On The Loose / Presumed Innocent / Not What You Said Last / Man Of Considerable Taste / Ain’t Seen My Baby / Marfa Lights / Phone Line / Josephine / I Won’t Do That / That’s What Love Will Make You Do / Going Back To Alabama / Why Don’t You Live So God Can Use You?

CD 3: Party Town / What You See Is What You Get / In A Roomful Of Blues / Blue And Lonesome / Outside Of This Town / Clotilda’s On Fire / The Longer That I Live / Living In A Burning House / Midnight Hour Blues / Ain’t No Fun (When The Rabbit Got The Gun) / Make It Back To Memphis (Live) / A Woman (Live) / I’m Running / You Didn’t Think About That / Ice Cream In Hell / You Won’t Have A Problem When I’m Gone / Too Late / The High Cost of Low Living / The Chicago Way