AA.VV. – Alligator Records 50 Years of genuine houserockin’ music

(Alligator Records / Ird)

www.alligator.com

Questa non è solo una raccolta, ma una festa. Per chi ama il blues e la black music in genere, ma anche per coloro che pensano alla musica come divertimento nel senso più alto della parola. La Alligator Records apre i propri archivi per festeggiare i propri 50 anni. I nomi dei tanti artisti proposti in questa antologia di tre Cd sono elencati in questo testo e la massima parte di loro non ha bisogno di presentazioni per gli appassionati del genere. Conta piuttosto come in questo mezzo secolo l’etichetta abbia puntato su sonorità brillanti e su artisti che fossero fuoriclasse sia su disco sia sul palcoscenico. Per questo la raccolta mostra, al di là dei decenni che passano, un marchio di fabbrica dell’etichetta fondata a Chicago da Bruce Iglauer, un grande fan di blues. Quello di saper guardare avanti puntando sul rinnovamento del blues senza mai rinnegarlo. Tanti auguri! E voi potete mettervi comodi ad ascoltare questo materiale prezioso nella sua schiera di musicisti,

Michele Manzotti

Cd 1

1. Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers – Give Me Back My Wig

2. Koko Taylor – I’m A Woman

3. Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell – Have Mercy

4. Fenton Robinson – Somebody Loan Me A Dime

5. Professor Longhair – It’s My Fault, Darling

6. Son Seals – Telephone Angel

7. Johnny Winter – Lights Out

8. Albert Collins – Blue Monday Hangover

9. James Cotton – Little Car Blues

10. Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland – The Dream

11. William Clarke – Pawnshop Bound

12. Lonnie Mack – Ridin’ the Blinds (Live)

13. Lonnie Brooks – Cold Lonely Nights (Live)

14. Luther Allison – Soul Fixin’ Man (Live)

15. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Got My Mojo Working

16. Saffire–The Uppity Blues Women – Sloppy Drunk

17. Roy Buchanan – That Did It

18. The Paladins – Keep On Lovin’ Me, Baby

Cd 2

1. Michael Burks – Love Disease

2. Kenny Neal – I’m A Blues Man

3. The Holmes Brothers – Run Myself Out Of Town

4. Little Charlie & The Nightcats – Jump Start

5. Katie Webster – I’m Still Leaving You

6. Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King – Don’t Lose My Number

7. The Kinsey Report – Corner Of The Blanket

8. Carey Bell – I Got A Rich Man’s Woman

9. C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band – Au Contraire, Mon Frere

10. Mavis Staples – There’s A Devil On The Loose

11. Michael Hill’s Blues Mob – Presumed Innocent 4

12. Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin – Not What You Said Last Night

13. Billy Boy Arnold – Man Of Considerable Taste

14. Cephas & Wiggins – Ain’t Seen My Baby

15. Long John Hunter – Marfa Lights

16. Dave Hole – Phone Line

17. Eric Lindell – Josephine

18. Joe Louis Walker – I Won’t Do That

19. Janiva Magness – That’s What Love Will Make You Do

20. The Siegel-Schwall Band – Going Back To Alabama

21. Corey Harris & Henry Butler – Why Don’t You Live So God Can Use You?

Cd 3

1. Marcia Ball – Party Town

2. Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials – What You See Is What You Get

3. Roomful Of Blues – In A Roomful Of Blues

4. Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues – Blue and Lonesome

5. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Outside Of This Town

6. Shemekia Copeland – Clotilda’s On Fire

7. Curtis Salgado – The Longer That I Live

8. Selwyn Birchwood – Living In A Burning House

9. Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – Midnight Hour Blues

10. The Cash Box Kings – Ain’t No Fun (When The Rabbit Got The Gun)

11. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers – Make It Back To Memphis (Live)

12. JJ Grey & Mofro – A Woman (Live)

13. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats – I’m Running

14. Coco Montoya – You Didn’t Think About That

15. Tinsley Ellis – Ice Cream In Hell

16. Chris Cain – You Won’t Have A Problem When I’m Gone

17. Guitar Shorty – Too Late

18. The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling – The High Cost of Low Living

19 Toronzo Cannon – The Chicago Way

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