This page is for the listener who knows Alligator Records not as a brand but as a guarantee: fifty-plus years of Chicago, Texas, and Gulf Coast blues pressed and packaged by people who take the music seriously. Everything here ships from the Relix store.
The collection runs to more than 160 titles across vinyl, CDs, and cassettes. On the vinyl side you will find JJ Grey and Mofro's Orange Blossoms on colored 2xLP, Georgia Warhorse on 180g vinyl, and Country Ghetto on CD. Albert Collins' Ice Pickin' is here as a standard LP pressing. D Harrell .K. brings Talkin' Heavy on blue vinyl, Carolyn Wonderland's Tempting Fate arrives on colored vinyl, and Chris O'Leary's Blue Collar is available both as a blue clear LP and as a CD. Tinsley Ellis contributes Labor Of Love on colored vinyl, and Selwyn Birchwood's Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues is stocked in both LP and CD formats. The label's own anniversary set, Alligator Records: 50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin' Music, collects the story across a 2xLP. On the CD side, Johnny Winter's Serious Business, Elvin Bishop's 100 Years Of Blues, Koko Taylor's Force of Nature, and Roomful of Blues' Steppin' Out round out what is a genuinely deep catalog pull.
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered the blues, the Dead, Phish, and the wider roots world since 1974. That history shapes what ends up in this store: titles we would actually write about, not filler. The Relix Sessions series represents live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label, and that same editorial sensibility carries into every label partnership, including this one with Alligator. When we stock a catalog this deep, it is because the records deserve the shelf space.
All titles are new and sealed. Pre-order listings show a street date and ship when the label releases them. Vinyl ships in protective packaging designed for LPs.
If you want to keep digging, the Blues Vinyl Records collection pulls together the broader blues vinyl selection, and Blues Vinyl and CDs covers both formats across the genre. For the full CD catalog beyond blues, CDs Straight from the Vault is the place to start.