Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story

by Patrick A. Roberts and Bruce Iglauer

Book Overview

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers. A year later, Iglauer produced Hound Dog's debut album in eight hours and pressed a thousand copies, the most he could afford. From that one album grew...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022668198X
• ISBN13: 9780226681986
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"