Browsing: 50th Anniversary

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.

The release of All Things Must Pass (2020 Mix) marks the beginning of celebrations for this historic album

Live At The Empire Theatre in Belleville, Ontario with special guests

“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.” – Curtis Mayfield

The March 10 show is the last major concert to have taken place in New York before being shut down because of Covid-19.

SPECIAL GUESTS – DAN AYKROYD, COLIN JAMES, JAMES COTTON, COLIN LINDEN, JONAS, & WAYNE JACKSON OF THE MEMPHIS HORNS

Jed tells the story with an increasing sense of drama commensurate with the oxygen tank explosion which catastrophically damaged the spacecraft and forced the crew to orbit the moon without landing and to return to earth.

Looking and sounding like a rerun of the famous New York Woodstock festival which propelled Ten Years After to global stardom was the Fifty Years After Party at the record-breaking Silverstone Classic.

“There would be no Blues Brothers if it weren’t for Downchild!” – Dan Aykroyd

Beyond its anti-war sentiment, “Fortunate Son” is an anthem for the 99%ers. Creedence condensed a critique of elitism and class privilege into three simple, but powerfully defiant words: “It Ain’t Me.”