An amazing double album recently published by Alligator Records to celebrate its 40 anniversary The dreams of his founder Bruce Iglauer have now been fully accomplished Bruce still remembers one day in 1970 when he went to Florence’s Lounge on the South Side of Chicago, wishing to record live his idol Hound Dog Taylor and then publish that recording Since then on, 40 years have gone passing by, full of great and good albums with the best blues names, both old school ones and the most contemporary actual artists You wil find in this double cd a long list of musicians and bands which, along the years, have been present in the huge Alligator catalog, with lots of valuable jewels every blues fan always has on mind, that certainly have an outstanding place in Afroamerican popular music history So, this is a priceless double album you should get and savour it step by step, minute by minute, song by song, that will certainly delight actual and future blues lovers