Delmark

Delmark Record label. Founded in 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri; presently located in Chicago, Illinois. Along with, and long before, Alligator Records, Delmark has been the prototypical independent Chicago blues label, issuing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of releases by Chicago (and other midwestern) blues artists who lacked the national recognition to land recording contracts with the major labels. More so than Alligator or Chess Records, which was also based out of Chicago before being sold to…