Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues. The 58 song 3-CD set lays out label founder and president Bruce Iglauer’s vision. The collection highlights the label’s extraordinary past, headline-generating present, and a future dedicated to nurturing new generations of blues artists and fans. Fifty years ago, Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favourite 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. Alligator Records’ artists and recordings have received 48 Grammy Award nominations and three Grammy Awards, over 150 Blues Music Awards and over 70 Living Blues Awards.