"PRIDE AND JOY:  The Story of Alligator Records - Theatrical music docu by DEEP BLUES director Robert Mugge uses the March 1992 Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Tour concert at Philadelphia's Chestnut Cabaret as the hub for a fascinating look at the pivotal Chicago blues label.  While Koko Taylor & Her Blues Machine, the Lonnie Brooks Blues Band, Elvin Bishop, Katie Webster, and Lil' Ed & Blues Imperials are uniformly dynamite, they are overshadowed by the near fairy tale of idealistic label head Bruce Iglauer, who came to Chicago out of college to hang out at the Southside blues bars and apprentice with legendary Delmark Records head Bob Koester before launching his own blues line - all for the love of the genre.  Beautifully captured too are the ups and downs of indie labeldom, as well as Iglauer's ever-articulate insights into the wonderful universality of the blues experience."

 - Jim Bessman, Billboard