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Rowe International Alligator Records Newest Blues and Rock On AMI Powered Jukeboxes

Sounds like jukebox music to us!

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Rowe International and subsidiary AMI Entertainment, a leading manufacturer of commercial jukeboxes and provider of digital music content, has teamed up with Alligator Records.

Wherever there is an AMI-Powered jukebox, Alligator Records is there too, providing your nightlife spots with solid doses of Blues and Rock with their Spring releases. These are the sounds of the swamp and of the city both. There are new releases available now from Koko Taylor, and by newcomers JJ Grey & Mofro.

First off, let’s talk the return of Koko Taylor (“the Queen of Chicago Blues”). With her newest album, aptly titled ‘Old School’, she continues her enviable legacy with little effort. It is her first album in seven years, opting for a return to straight-ahead Blues. She did a heavy bit of her own writing, but also covers Willie Dixon, Magic Sam, and Lizzy Lawler. From the liner notes to the tunes, the newest from Koko Taylor is an ode the Chicago scene that she created, and continues to define.

JJ Grey & Mofro is rather new to the scene, but brings Rock riffs and Soul to the Blues landscape. The groups new album ‘Country Ghetto’ comes right out of Grey’s Florida-swamp roots, and accentuates in the right places with harmonicas, organs, horns, keyboards, and string arrangements. “War” could easily carve itself a niche on Classic Rock radio. The title-track is a dirty, harmonica-laced battle with southern-boy stereotypes.  

JJ Grey has a raspy, soulful voice, which leads the way through this down home set. Things get spiritual when back-up singers and organs swirl about Country Ghetto’s twelve songs. This is fresh territory for a label like Alligator, one that usually sticks to traditional Blues. What we have here is an able answer to the Black Keys and Ray LaMontagne’s brand of Blues and Soul.           

AMI Entertainment entered into agreement with Alligator in 2004, and has released the best of their catalog ever since. Look for other catalog titles on any of Rowe’s 7,000-plus digital jukeboxes by artists like Marcia Ball, Buddy Guy, Elvin Bishop, Guitar Shorty, Otis Rush, Magic Slim, Coco Montoya, Delbert McClinton, and many more.    

Sounds like jukebox music to us!          

Further information about Alligator Records can be found on their website www.alligator.com.

About ROWE International & AMI Entertainment

Rowe International Corporation is the number one manufacturer of commercial and home coin-op jukeboxes, and the leading maker of CD-to-digital upgrade kits. The Company manufactures the NiteStar®, Solara® (floor format) and NiteHAWK™ and StarBrite® (wall-mounted) Internet-enabled all-digital jukeboxes. The Company’s Internet-enabled devices can operate over a variety of broadband connections including wireless. AMI Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rowe International Corp., provides digital music content and Web-based management services for the Rowe Internet-enabled jukeboxes over the AMI Entertainment Network. Rowe International and AMI Entertainment are headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rowe also maintains a technical support and sales office in London, and has one of the industry’s most extensive sales and support systems, with distributors in more than 35 countries. Distributor and product information is available at the Company website, www.roweinternational.com, or by calling (616) 243-3633.