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Fifty years ago, 23-year-old blues fan Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favorite Chicago blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, and founded Alligator Records to release it. Today, Alligator boasts a catalog of over 350 titles, many of which are renowned, award-winning, time-tested classics of the genre.

With out Hound Dog, who knows what would have happened and what Alligator Records would have looked like but we’re sure glad it happened the way it did!

Long time captain of likely most successful blues label since Chess Records given prestigious honor.