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Alligator Records

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Alligator Records is an American, Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971. [1]

211 relations: A.C. Reed, Albert Collins, Alligator (disambiguation), Alternative Distribution Alliance, Alton Purnell, Anders Osborne, Andrew Kaslow, Ann Rabson, Bad Axe (album), Ben Mumphrey, Big Daddy Kinsey, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, Big Walter Horton, Bill Johnson (blues musician), Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch, Billy Butler (guitarist), Black Top Records, Blind John Davis, Blue Streak (album), Blues, Bnois King, Bob Margolin, Bruce Iglauer, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy discography, C. J. Chenier, Carey Bell, Carl Weathersby, Cephas & Wiggins, Charles Brown (musician), Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago Fire (Son Seals album), Chicago record labels, Christoffer Andersen, Cindy Cashdollar, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Clifton Chenier, Corey Harris, Corky Siegel, Country Ghetto, Crawfish Fiesta, Curtis Salgado, Dancing on the Edge (album), Dave Hole, David Egan, David Piltch, Debra Dobkin, Deluxe Edition (album), ..., Detroit Junior, Dick Shurman, Dion Payton, Don't Lose Your Cool, Doug Pettibone, Earwig Music Company, Eddie King (musician), Eddie Shaw, Eddy Clearwater, Elvin Bishop, Eric Lindell, Feed My Soul, Fenton Robinson, Fire It Up (Tinsley Ellis album), Flash Forward (album), Floyd Dixon, Fontana North, Force of Nature (Koko Taylor album), Forward (The Abyssinians album), From the Heart of a Woman, Frostbite (album), Gaye Adegbalola, Guitar Shorty, Guitar Slinger (Johnny Winter album), Have a Little Faith (Mavis Staples album), HDtracks, Hot Wires, Hound Dog Taylor, Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers, It Still Ain't Easy, James Cotton, Janiva Magness, Jarekus Singleton, Jesse Dee, Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist), JJ Grey & Mofro, Joe Bonamassa discography, Joe Louis Walker, John Jackson (blues musician), Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, Johnny Heartsman, Johnny Winter, Johnny Winter discography, Jon Robert Smith, JW-Jones, Kenny Greenberg, Kenny Neal, Kofi Burbridge, Koko Taylor, Lacy Gibson, Lawrence University, Lay Your Burden Down, Lazy Lester, Lee Rocker, Lester Butler, Lettin' Go (album), Lil' Ed Williams, List of Chicago blues musicians, List of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area, List of country blues musicians, List of electric blues musicians, List of people from Ann Arbor, Michigan, List of record labels: A–H, List of Texas blues musicians, List of Warner Music Group labels, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Little Johnny Jones (pianist), Little Smokey Smothers, Lonesome Sundown, Long John Hunter, Lonnie Brooks, Lonnie Mack, Lovie Lee, Lucky Peterson, Lurrie Bell, Luther Allison, Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior), Maceo Parker, Maceo Parker discography, Magic Slim, MapleCore Ltd., Marcia Ball, Margo Davidson, Marty Sammon, Maurice John Vaughn, Mavis Staples, Michael Burks, Michael Coleman (blues musician), Michael Hill's Blues Mob, Midnight Son (album), Midwestern United States, Mike Mattison, Moment of Truth (Tinsley Ellis album), Moreland and Arbuckle, Mutabaruka, Natural Boogie, Nick Lowe discography, Orange Blossoms (album), P-Vine Records, Pat Buchanan (musician), Presumed Innocent (Marcia Ball album), Professor Eddie Lusk, Professor Longhair, Proper Music Distribution, Raful Neal, Reckless (Luther Allison album), Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Robert Mugge, Robert Walter (musician), Ronnie Baker Brooks, Roomful of Blues, Roy Buchanan, Rufus Thomas, Rusty Zinn, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, Sam Lay, Scrapomatic, Selwyn Birchwood, Serious Business (album), Shannon McNally, Shemekia Copeland, Short Fuse Blues, Showdown!, Shuggie Otis, Siegel–Schwall Band, Simple Truths, Sippie Wallace, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Somebody Loan Me a Dime, Son Seals, Sonny Terry, Soul Fixin' Man, Speak No Evil (Tinsley Ellis album), St. Clair Entertainment Group, Stone Crazy!, Sugar Blue, The Abyssinians, The Earthshaker, The Flying Saucers, The Holmes Brothers, The Kentucky Headhunters, The Kentucky Headhunters discography, The Paladins, The Siegel–Schwall Reunion Concert, The Son Seals Blues Band, The Son Seals Blues Band (album), The Well (Charlie Musselwhite album), Third Degree, Tinsley Ellis, Tommy Castro, Toronzo Cannon, Trouble Time, Vasti Jackson, W. C. Clark, Watch Your Back, We the People (Guitar Shorty album), When a Guitar Plays the Blues, Will Kimbrough discography, William Clarke (musician), X5 Music Group, You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover. Expand index (161 more) »

A.C. Reed

Aaron Corthen, better known as A.C. Reed (May 9, 1926 – February 24, 2004) was an American blues saxophonist, closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s.

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Albert Collins

Albert Gene Drewery, known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993),Skeely, Richard.

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Alligator (disambiguation)

Alligators are large reptiles in the Crocodilia order.

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Alternative Distribution Alliance

Alternative Distribution Alliance is a music distribution company owned by Warner Music Group, which represents the rights to various independent record labels.

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Alton Purnell

Alton Purnell (April 16, 1911 – January 14, 1987) was an American jazz pianist.

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Anders Osborne

Anders Osborne (born May 4, 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden) is an American singer/songwriter.

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Andrew Kaslow

Andrew Jonathan Kaslow (born March 5, 1950, New York, New York, United States) is an American author, record producer, saxophonist and entertainment executive.

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Ann Rabson

Ann Rabson (April 12, 1945 – January 30, 2013) was an American blues vocalist, pianist and guitar player.

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Bad Axe (album)

Bad Axe is the fourth studio album (and fifth album) by Son Seals.

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Ben Mumphrey

Benjamin Mumphrey (born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American record producer, audio engineer, and musician.

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Big Daddy Kinsey

Lester J. Kinsey Jr., (March 18, 1927 – April 3, 2001) known as Big Daddy Kinsey, was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.

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Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows

Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows was an American blues and rhythm and blues group.

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Big Walter Horton

Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter (Horton) or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1921 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player.

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Bill Johnson (blues musician)

Bill Johnson (born Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, and music educator.

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Billy Boy Arnold

William "Billy Boy" Arnold (born September 16, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Billy Branch

Billy Branch (born William Earl Branch, October 3, 1951) is an American blues harmonica player and singer of Chicago blues.

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Billy Butler (guitarist)

William Butler Jr. (December 15, 1924 – March 20, 1991) was an American soul jazz guitarist.

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Black Top Records

Black Top Records was a New Orleans, Louisiana-based independent record label founded in 1981 by brothers Nauman S. Scott, III and Hammond Scott.

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Blind John Davis

Blind John Davis (December 7, 1913 – October 12, 1985) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Blue Streak (album)

Blue Streak is an album by American blues guitarist Luther Allison, released in 1995 by Alligator Records.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bnois King

Bnois King (born January 21, 1943) (pronounced "buh-noise"); posted March 12, 2003; Kankakee Valley Daily-Journal.com; Kankakee, Illinois; retrieved October, 2015 is a Texas Blues and Jazz guitar player, vocalist, and composer.

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Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin (born May 9, 1949) is an American electric blues guitarist.

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Bruce Iglauer

Bruce Iglauer (born July 10, 1947, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) is the American founder and head of the independent blues record label Alligator Records in Chicago.

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Buckwheat Zydeco

Stanley Joseph Dural, Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician.

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Buddy Guy

George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Buddy Guy discography

This is the discography of American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy.

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C. J. Chenier

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Carey Bell

Carey Bell (November 14, 1936 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues musician who played harmonica in the Chicago blues style.

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Carl Weathersby

Carl Weathersby (born Carlton Weathersby, 24 February 1953, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American electric blues vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Cephas & Wiggins

Cephas & Wiggins were an American acoustic blues duo, composed of the guitarist John Cephas (September 4, 1930 – March 4, 2009) and the harmonica player Phil Wiggins (born May 8, 1954).

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Charles Brown (musician)

Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced blues performance in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Charlie Musselwhite

Charles Douglas "Charlie" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat.

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Chicago Fire (Son Seals album)

Chicago Fire is the third studio album (and fourth album) released by Son Seals.

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Chicago record labels

This is a list of notable record labels based in Chicago.

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Christoffer Andersen

Christoffer "Kid" Andersen (born January 15, 1980) is a blues guitarist from Herre, Norway.

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Cindy Cashdollar

Cindy Cashdollar is an American non-pedal steel guitar and Dobro musician.

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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American musician from Louisiana and Texas.

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Clifton Chenier

Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), a Louisiana French-speaking native of Opelousas, Louisiana, was an eminent performer and recording artist of Zydeco, which arose from Cajun and Creole music, with R&B, jazz, and blues influences.

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Corey Harris

Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969; Denver, Colorado) is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Corky Siegel

Mark Paul "Corky" Siegel (born October 24, 1943) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and composer.

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Country Ghetto

Country Ghetto is the third album from the band JJ Grey & Mofro.

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Crawfish Fiesta

Crawfish Fiesta is an album recorded in 1979 by Professor Longhair during his revival period only months before his death in January 1980 and released in 1980 by Alligator Records.

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Curtis Salgado

Curtis Salgado (born February 4, 1954 in Everett, Washington, United States) is an American from Portland, Oregon, based blues, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter.

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Dancing on the Edge (album)

Dancing on the Edge is a 1986 album by American guitarist and blues musician Roy Buchanan.

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Dave Hole

Robert David "Dave" Hole (born 30 March 1948, Heswall, Cheshire, United Kingdom) is an Australian slide guitarist known for his style of playing rock and roll and blues music.

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David Egan

Reuben David Egan (March 20, 1954 – March 18, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist based in Lafayette, Louisiana, who composed, recorded, and performed rock, Cajun-rock, soul, and blues.

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David Piltch

David Piltch (born January 29, 1960) is a Canadian bassist and session musician.

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Debra Dobkin

Debra Dobkin is an American vocalist, percussionist, music producer, and painter.

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Deluxe Edition (album)

Deluxe Edition is a 2002 compilation album of recordings by Son Seals for Alligator Records.

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Detroit Junior

Emery "Detroit Junior" Williams, Jr. (October 26, 1931 – August 9, 2005) - accessed July 2010 was an American Chicago blues pianist, vocalist and songwriter.

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Dick Shurman

Richard L. "Dick" Shurman (born May 23, 1950) is an American record producer, sound engineer, music journalist, music historian, and backing vocalist.

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Dion Payton

Dion Payton (born October 21, 1950, Greenwood, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer, who gained popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Chicago clubs.

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Don't Lose Your Cool

Don't Lose Your Cool is the eighth studio album by Albert Collins, released in 1983 by Alligator Records.

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Doug Pettibone

Doug Pettibone (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and studio musician.

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Earwig Music Company

Earwig Music Company is an American blues and jazz independent record label, founded by Michael Frank in October 1978 in Chicago.

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Eddie King (musician)

Eddie King (April 21, 1938 – March 14, 2012) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Eddie Shaw

Eddie Shaw (March 20, 1937 – January 29, 2018) was an American Chicago blues tenor saxophonist, arranger and bandleader.

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Eddy Clearwater

Edward Harrington (January 10, 1935 – June 1, 2018), better known by his stage name Eddy Clearwater, was an American blues musician who specialized in Chicago blues.

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Elvin Bishop

Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.

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Eric Lindell

Eric Lindell (born 1969, San Mateo, California, United States) is an American singer-songwriter, who came to national prominence after relocating to New Orleans in 1999.

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Feed My Soul

Feed My Soul is an album by gospel/soul trio The Holmes Brothers.

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Fenton Robinson

Fenton Lee Robinson (September 23, 1935 – November 25, 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar.

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Fire It Up (Tinsley Ellis album)

Fire It Up is a 1997 Blues album by Tinsley Ellis.

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Flash Forward (album)

Flash Forward is an album by the Siegel–Schwall Band.

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Floyd Dixon

Floyd Dixon (February 8, 1929 – July 26, 2006) was an American rhythm-and-blues pianist and singer.

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Fontana North

Fontana North is a Canadian record distribution company and represents the Canadian wing of Fontana Distribution.

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Force of Nature (Koko Taylor album)

Force of Nature is a blues album by Koko Taylor, released in 1993 by Alligator Records.

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Forward (The Abyssinians album)

Forward is The Abyssinians' third album, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music).

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From the Heart of a Woman

From the Heart of a Woman is a blues album by Koko Taylor, released in January 1981 by Alligator Records.

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Frostbite (album)

Frostbite is the seventh studio album by Albert Collins, released in 1980 through the Alligator Records label.

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Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola (born Gaye Todd, March 21, 1944, Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States), All Media Guide (2007); retrieved August 2, 2008.

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Guitar Shorty

Guitar Shorty (born David William Kearney, September 8, 1934 in Houston, Texas, United States) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Guitar Slinger (Johnny Winter album)

Guitar Slinger is an album by guitarist and singer Johnny Winter.

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Have a Little Faith (Mavis Staples album)

Have a Little Faith is the tenth studio album by American soul singer Mavis Staples, which was released by Alligator Records.

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HDtracks

HDtracks is a high-resolution digital music store offering DRM-free music in multiple formats as well as cover art (and liner notes via PDF file downloads for a majority of catalog offerings) with Audio CD-quality and high definition audio master recording quality download selections.

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Hot Wires

Hot Wires is a 1987 album by American guitarist and blues musician Roy Buchanan.

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Hound Dog Taylor

Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor (April 12, 1915 – December 17, 1975) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers is the 1971 (see 1971 in music) debut album of Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor.

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It Still Ain't Easy

It Still Ain't Easy is a studio album by blues singer Long John Baldry.

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James Cotton

James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band.

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Janiva Magness

Janiva Magness (born January 30, 1957) is a Grammy Award nominated American blues, soul and Americana soul singer and songwriter.

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Jarekus Singleton

Jarekus Singleton (born July 11, 1984 in Clinton, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Jesse Dee

Jesse Dee is an R&B and soul singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist)

James Earl Thompson (born November 25, 1928), known professionally as Jimmy Johnson, is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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JJ Grey & Mofro

JJ Grey & Mofro (formerly Mofro) is an American Southern soul rock band from Jacksonville, Florida.

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Joe Bonamassa discography

The discography of Joe Bonamassa, an American blues rock musician, consists of 12 studio albums, 16 live albums, three collaboration albums, 27 singles (24 as a lead artist, two as a featured artist), 15 video albums, 13 music videos and 54 other appearances.

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Joe Louis Walker

Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW (born December 25, 1949) is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer.

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John Jackson (blues musician)

John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician.

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Johnny "Big Moose" Walker

Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist.

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Johnny Heartsman

John Leroy "Johnny" Heartsman (February 9, 1936 – December 27, 1996) was an American electric blues and soul blues musician and songwriter.

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Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Johnny Winter discography

Johnny Winter was an American rock and blues musician, best known for playing the guitar and singing.

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Jon Robert Smith

Jon Robert Smith (born 1945 Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American tenor saxophonist, prolific as a rock and roll, R&B, delta blues, jazz, and fusion studio and live performance musician.

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JW-Jones

JW-Jones (born July 15, 1980) is a Canadian blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader.

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Kenny Greenberg

Kenneth S. "Kenny" Greenberg is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and session musician.

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Kenny Neal

Kenny Neal (born October 14, 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States), son of Raful Neal, is an American blues guitar player, singer and band member.

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Kofi Burbridge

Kofi Burbridge is an American keyboardist and flautist of the Grammy Award-winning blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band.

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Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor (born Cora Anna Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American singer whose style encompassed many genres, including Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues.

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Lacy Gibson

Lacy Gibson (May 1, 1936 – April 11, 2011) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lawrence University

Lawrence University is a liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

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Lay Your Burden Down

Lay Your Burden Down is a studio album by Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 2009 through Alligator Records.

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Lazy Lester

Lazy Lester (born Leslie Carswell Johnson, June 20, 1933) is an American blues musician who sings and plays the harmonica and guitar.

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Lee Rocker

Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker, August 3, 1961) is an American double bass player.

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Lester Butler

Lester Butler (November 12, 1959 – May 9, 1998) was an American blues harmonica player and singer.

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Lettin' Go (album)

2000's Lettin' Go is the seventh studio album (and ninth album) released by Son Seals, released six years after his previous studio album, Nothing but the Truth, for Alligator Records.

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Lil' Ed Williams

Lil' Ed Williams (born April 8, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues slide guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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List of Chicago blues musicians

Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.

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List of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area

This is a list of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area.

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List of country blues musicians

The following is a list of country blues musicians.

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List of electric blues musicians

The electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, the bass guitar, and/or the harmonica and other instruments.

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List of people from Ann Arbor, Michigan

The following is a list of notable Ann Arborites (people born in or associated with the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan).

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List of record labels: A–H

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List of Texas blues musicians

Texas Blues is a subgenre of the blues, and of course is not limited to Texas-based musicians.

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List of Warner Music Group labels

Warner Music Group's labels include the following.

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Little Charlie & the Nightcats

Little Charlie & the Nightcats (now billed as Rick Estrin & the Nightcats) is an American four-piece electric blues and swing revival combo, currently consisting of guitarist Kid Andersen, harmonicist and lead vocalist Rick Estrin, bassist Lorenzo Farrell and drummer J. Hansen.

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Little Johnny Jones (pianist)

Little Johnny Jones (born Johnnie Jones, November 1, 1924 – November 19, 1964) was an American Chicago blues pianist and singer, best known for his work with Tampa Red, Muddy Waters and Elmore James.

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Little Smokey Smothers

Little Smokey Smothers (January 2, 1939 – November 20, 2010) was an African-American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Lonesome Sundown

Cornelius Green III (December 12, 1928 – April 23, 1995), known professionally as Lonesome Sundown, was an American blues musician, best known for his recordings for Excello Records in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Long John Hunter

John Thurman Hunter Jr. (July 13, 1931 – January 4, 2016), known by the stage name Long John Hunter, was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lonnie Brooks

Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Lonnie Mack

Lonnie McIntosh (July 18, 1941 – April 21, 2016), known by his stage name Lonnie Mack, was an American rock musician whose recordings drew from a wide variety of Southern roots music influences.

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Lovie Lee

Lovie Lee (March 17, 1909 – May 23, 1997) Various birth years have been reported for Lee, including 1917 and 1923.

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Lucky Peterson

Lucky Peterson (born Judge Kenneth Peterson; December 13, 1964 in Buffalo, New York) is an American musician who plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll.

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Lurrie Bell

Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Luther Allison

Luther Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist.

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Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior)

Luther Johnson (born April 11, 1939, Itta Bena, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues singer and guitarist, who performs under the name Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson.

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Maceo Parker

Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s.

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Maceo Parker discography

This is the discography for American jazz musician Maceo Parker.

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Magic Slim

Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 – February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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MapleCore Ltd.

MapleCore Ltd. is a music company founded in 1999 and located in Toronto, Canada.

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Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas) is an American blues singer and pianist raised in Vinton, Louisiana.

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Margo Davidson

Margo Isabella Davidson (September 28, 1957 – May 17, 2008) was a founding member of the Parachute Club, for which she was saxophonist, percussionist and vocalist.

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Marty Sammon

Marty Sammon (born October 14, 1977) is an American blues keyboardist.

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Maurice John Vaughn

Maurice John Vaughn (born May 10, 1952) is an American blues musician from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Michael Burks

Michael Burks (July 30, 1957 – May 6, 2012) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Michael Coleman (blues musician)

Michael Coleman (June 24, 1956 – November 2, 2014) was a Chicago blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Michael Hill's Blues Mob

Michael Hill's Blues Mob is an American blues trio.

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Midnight Son (album)

Midnight Son is the second studio album released by Son Seals.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Mike Mattison

Mike Mattison is an American musician and vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning blues rock/soul group, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, as well as lead vocalist and co-founder of the blues rock trio Scrapomatic.

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Moment of Truth (Tinsley Ellis album)

Moment of Truth is a 2007 blues album by Tinsley Ellis.

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Moreland and Arbuckle

Moreland & Arbuckle (guitarist Aaron Moreland, vocalist/Harmonicist/blues harp Dustin Arbuckle, and drummer Kendall Newby) are an American Electric Blues/roots rock trio.

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Mutabaruka

Allan Hope, better known as Mutabaruka, is a Jamaican Rastafari dub poet, musician, actor, educator, and talk-show host, who developed two of Jamaica's most popular radio programs, The Cutting Edge and Steppin' Razor.

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Natural Boogie

Natural Boogie is the second studio album released by Hound Dog Taylor and his band The HouseRockers.

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Nick Lowe discography

Nick Lowe is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer.

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Orange Blossoms (album)

Orange Blossoms is the fourth studio album from the band JJ Grey & Mofro.

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P-Vine Records

P-Vine Records is an independent record label, started by Blues Interactions, a firm in Tokyo, Japan established in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi.

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Pat Buchanan (musician)

Patrick "Pat" Jay Buchanan is an American guitarist, known for his work with the band Cameo and as a Nashville-based session musician.

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Presumed Innocent (Marcia Ball album)

Presumed Innocent is the 2001 breakthrough album of Marcia Ball.

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Professor Eddie Lusk

Eddie James Lusk, Jr. known professionally as Professor Eddie Lusk (September 21, 1948 – August 26, 1992) was an American Chicago blues musician.

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Professor Longhair

Henry Byrd redirects here.

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Proper Music Distribution

Since 1988, Proper Music Distribution has grown to become the largest totally independent distributor in the UK, with annual sales of over £25million.

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Raful Neal

Raful Neal (June 6, 1936 – September 1, 2004) was an American, Louisiana blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter.

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Reckless (Luther Allison album)

Reckless is an album by American blues guitarist Luther Allison, released in 1997.

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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats are an American four-piece electric blues band (formed in 2008 after the dissolution of Little Charlie & The Nightcats, of which three of the band were members), and consisting of harmonicist/lead vocalist and songwriter Rick Estrin, guitarist Kid Andersen, bassist Lorenzo Farrell and drummer Alexander Pettersen.

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Robert Mugge

Robert Mugge (born May 8, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American documentary film maker.

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Robert Walter (musician)

Robert Walter (born May 3, 1970) is a keyboard player specializing in instrumental soul jazz on the Hammond B3 organ.

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Ronnie Baker Brooks

Ronnie Baker Brooks (born January 23, 1967) is an American Chicago blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Roomful of Blues

Roomful of Blues is an American blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island.

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Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician.

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Rufus Thomas

Rufus C. Thomas, Jr. (March 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm-and-blues, funk, soul and blues singer, songwriter, dancer, DJ and comic entertainer from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Rusty Zinn

Rusty Zinn (born April 3, 1970 in Long Beach, California) is an American electric blues and reggae guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women

Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Sam Lay

Sam Lay (born March 20, 1935, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American drummer and vocalist who has been performing since the late 1950s.

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Scrapomatic

Scrapomatic is an American blues duo, consisting of two performers, Paul Olsen, and Mike Mattison.

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Selwyn Birchwood

Selwyn Birchwood (born March 9, 1985) is an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from Tampa, Florida.

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Serious Business (album)

Serious Business is an album by guitarist and singer Johnny Winter.

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Shannon McNally

Shannon Maureen McNally (born March 17, 1973) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Shemekia Copeland

Charon Shemekia Copeland (born April 10, 1979) is an American electric blues vocalist.

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Short Fuse Blues

Short Fuse Blues is the debut album by Australian blues singer and guitarist Dave Hole, released in 1990.

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Showdown!

Showdown! is a blues album by Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland, released in 1985 through Alligator Records.

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Shuggie Otis

Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Siegel–Schwall Band

The Siegel–Schwall Band is an American electric blues band from Chicago, Illinois.

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Simple Truths

Simple Truths is The Holmes Brothers' seventh album, released on January 14, 2004.

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Sippie Wallace

Sippie Wallace (born Beulah Belle Thomas, November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Smokin' Joe Kubek

Smokin' Joe Kubek (November 30, 1956 – October 11, 2015) was an American Texas blues electric guitarist, songwriter and performer.

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Somebody Loan Me a Dime

Somebody Loan Me a Dime is a 1974 studio album by blues singer and guitarist Fenton Robinson, his debut under the Alligator Records imprint.

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Son Seals

Frank "Son" Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.

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Sonny Terry

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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Soul Fixin' Man

Soul Fixin' Man is an album by American blues guitarist Luther Allison, released in 1994 by Alligator Records.

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Speak No Evil (Tinsley Ellis album)

Speak No Evil is a 2009 blues album by Tinsley Ellis.

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St. Clair Entertainment Group

The St.

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Stone Crazy!

The Blues Giant (or also known as Stone Crazy!) is the fourth studio album by Buddy Guy.

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Sugar Blue

Sugar Blue (born James Joshua "Jimmie" Whiting, December 16, 1949, Harlem, New York City) is an American blues harmonica player.

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The Abyssinians

The Abyssinians are a Jamaican roots reggae group, famous for their close harmonies and promotion of the Rastafari movement in their lyrics.

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The Earthshaker

The Earthshaker is a blues album by Koko Taylor, released on March 1, 1978 by Alligator Records.

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The Flying Saucers

The Flying Saucers were an influential Teddy Boy rockabilly band from Edmonton, North London, England.

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The Holmes Brothers

The Holmes Brothers were an American musical trio originally from Christchurch, Virginia.

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The Kentucky Headhunters

The Kentucky Headhunters is an American country rock and Southern rock band.

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The Kentucky Headhunters discography

The Kentucky Headhunters are an American country rock & southern rock band founded in 1968 as Itchy Brother.

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The Paladins

The Paladins are an American roots rock-rockabilly band from San Diego, California.

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The Siegel–Schwall Reunion Concert

The Siegel–Schwall Reunion Concert is an album by the Siegel–Schwall Band.

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The Son Seals Blues Band

The Son Seals Blues Band is the 1973 debut album by Son Seals, released by Alligator Records.

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The Son Seals Blues Band (album)

The Son Seals Blues Band is the 1973 debut album by Son Seals, released by Alligator Records.

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The Well (Charlie Musselwhite album)

The Well is twenty seventh studio album by American blues singer and harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite.

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Third Degree

Third Degree is a 1986 album by Johnny Winter and the final of the trilogy he made for Alligator Records.

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Tinsley Ellis

Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957) is an American blues and rock musician, who grew up in southern Florida.

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Tommy Castro

Tommy Castro (born April 15, 1955, San Jose, California, United States) is an American blues, R&B and rock guitarist and singer.

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Toronzo Cannon

Toronzo Cannon (born February 14, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.

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Trouble Time

Trouble Time is a 1992 blues album by Tinsley Ellis.

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Vasti Jackson

Vasti Jackson (pronounced Vast-eye) (born October 20, 1959) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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W. C. Clark

W.

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Watch Your Back

Watch Your Back is the sixth studio album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney).

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We the People (Guitar Shorty album)

We the People is the seventh studio album released by blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney).

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When a Guitar Plays the Blues

When a Guitar Plays the Blues is a 1985 album by American guitarist and blues musician, Roy Buchanan.

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Will Kimbrough discography

This is the discography of American singer-songwriter Will Kimbrough.

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William Clarke (musician)

William Clarke (March 21, 1951 – November 2, 1996) was an American blues harmonica player and singer.

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X5 Music Group

X5 Music Group is a record label based in Stockholm, Sweden with a branch in Manhattan, New York.

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You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover

"You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" is a 1962 song by rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Records

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