LIVING BLUES Magazine #257 (2018) LATIMORE Hound Dog Taylor & Alligator Records

Living Blues: The Magazine of the African American Blues Tradition, Issue No. 257, October 2018. Cover: Latimore. Articles: Latimore, Bitten By the Blues (Bruce Iglauer’s story of recording Hound Dog Taylor to start Alligator Records), Roosevelt Purifoy Jr., Bruce “Mississippi” Johnson.  Plus Artist to Artist: Sheryl Youngblood; Catching Up With Andrew “Junior Boy” Jones; LB Talks to Johnny Rawls; blues news (Professor Longhair Centennial exhibit, Chasing the Blues film); The Dozens by Jim DeKoster;  Obituaries and death notices (Stan Lewis, Henry Butler, Lazy Lester, Lawrence Taylor, Yvonne Staples, Jessie “Little Howlin’ Wolf” Sanders, Hosea Hargrove,  Josh “Razorblade” Stewart); ads, reviews, editorial and radio charts. 88 pages.  Published by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Cover price $6.95. Bluesoterica.com discount price $3.99. Many more issues of Living Blues, dating back to the 1970s, are available at my eBay store.